Richard Baker

Stoneygate (Leicester) Council By-Election Result:

🌍 GRN: 30.4% (+22.9)
🌹 LAB: 27.7% (-12.8)
🏘️ OL: 16.2% (New)
🙋 Ind: 11.5% (New)
🌳 CON: 8.3% (-15.3)
➡️ RFM: 2.7% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.6% (-5.9)
🙋 Ind: 1.6% (New)

No Ind (-21.0) as previous.

Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.

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It was the US that forced Britain to decolonise after WW2 in return for writing off our war debts. However, it wasn't for high minded reasons of liberty but to open up the Empire to US business.

No fuel, no tourists, no cash – this was the week the Cuban crisis got real Diplomats in Havana are preparing for an alternative Trump tactic: the country being starved until people take to the streets and the US can step in

A new style of the US trying to force regime change. Unlikely to end any better than the military version

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Extract from Marco Rubio's speech in Munich yesterday. Pure, naked imperialism and white supremacy.

It's only bizarre if you have no empathy. And you who don't have empathy: psychopaths.

Huda Ammori is scathing about Yvette Cooper, & rightly so. Cooper banned Palestine Action in order to protect companies supplying arms to Israel during a genocide, and in doing so attacked the rights of every single one of us. And all of it was unlawful.

Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled Influential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election

"Reform UK last year received £200,000 from a tiny UK firm run by a churchwarden in Potters Bar who has worked for an Iranian-Kazakh billionaire who recently bankrolled Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos...It listed tax debts totalling more than its political contributions"

Tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics is so so rare in British politics: real people who are unafraid to just be themselves for an hour because they know they don't have to protect any vested interests.

It's time for a clearout of robots in Westminster.

Reform politicians are happy to throw insults from a distance.

But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show.

Richard Tice pulled out.
Farage won’t face me.
Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer.

Vote Green.

Excellent work by Reform at Kent Council, who made a £40m saving by briefly proposing to spend £40m on something then deciding not to. Using this model, every Reform council can save £billions!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

They won't be satisfied until they are a tiny clique of ideological purists.

Mandelson could face police inquiry over alleged leak to Epstein Met police assessing reports of alleged misconduct in public office after government information apparently shared

Starmer has serious questions to answer about what his government knew, and when, about Mandelson's Epstein ties. Shocking that this man was made ambassador - he should have no role in public life. And we absolutely need a police enquiry into leaks.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We're out campaigning in Gorton and Denton for the by-election on 26th of February.
it's time for change in this community, it's time for hope, it's time to VOTE GREEN

Excited to see Hannah Spencer selected for this important by-election. I wish I could go and join the campaign, but since I can't make the time work, I've donated the cost of my train fare. Maybe you're in the same position?
Just thinking of how much of their dodgy donations Reform will use.

‘Man of the people’ Nigel Farage attended Davos as adviser to Iranian billionaire So much for Farage being an anti-establishment figure.

So much for being anti-establishment...

INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer Green Party candidate for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚

“A poster-style political graphic with the large word ‘CONFORM’ at the top. Beneath it, bold text reads ‘Farage is getting the failed band back together’. Nigel Farage is shown prominently in the centre, with several other former Conservative and Reform-linked politicians arranged around him in a collage style. The background is beige and textured, giving a worn, poster-like feel. The Green Party logo appears at the bottom, along with small-print promotional text.”

Same Tory MPs, same austerity-led ideology, same failure.

England planning proposals fail to mention safety of women and girls, say critics Draft proposals likely to ‘embed risk and inequality’, campaigners and urban planners say

NEW: The government's new national planning framework for England contains precisely zero mentions of women and girls despite urban design been seen as a key element in helping women and girls feel safer. by @lexytopping.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

See also.

It's definitely an interesting tactic to field a candidate who endorses Trump's great replacement conspiracy theories about Europe in a seat where 35%-ish of the population was born outside the UK.

Even with the caveat that lots of voters barely notice who a candidate it, Reform selecting Matt Goodwin for Gorton and Denton is... bold:
• Not a politician
• Has said some pretty fruity things
• Quite thin-skinned

Book me in for the hustings.

Labour expects to lose by-election after Andy Burnham blocked Insiders say Sir Keir Starmer chose between a likely defeat in Gorton & Denton and the greater risk of losing control of the Greater Manchester mayoralty

And there we have it.

The Government are admitting Gorton & Denton is between the Green Party and Reform.

Let's make sure hope wins.

www.thetimes.com/article/3d6d...

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It's clear that the Green Party are the way to keep Reform out of Manchester.

We are already on the ground in Gorton and Denton - and we are going to be campaigning for every single vote.

A new Green MP representing the community.

Let's go!

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Unpicking the second Minneapolis shooting frame by frame BBC Verify has analysed footage of the shooting from multiple angles, piecing together a detailed picture of what happened.

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Latest polling. Only the greens can stop Reform in Gorton and Denton. Reform +12%, Greens +11%, -20% Labour

Labour have blown it. This is it. Time to take on Reform.

Manchesters first Green MP is coming. Join us to help get them elected on Saturday.

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REBUILD GAZA FOR PALESTINIANS' NEEDS NOT CORPORATE GREED Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE169GQ

Trump's "Board of Peace" is expected to include Blair, Putin and Netanyahu - but not a single Palestinian.

At Davos, Jared Kushner presented the board's dystopian real estate vision for Gaza.

Gaza’s future is for Palestinians to decide. Not foreign powers or corporate greed.

This is a very worthwhile 11 minute briefing on what's happening in North East Syria / Rojava, why it deserves to be MUCH MORE in the news and much higher on the UK Govt's priorities -- from @carneross.bsky.social, former British diplomat & former @greenparty.org.uk Foreign Affairs spokesperson.

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🚨 Our latest Green Party Political Broadcast drops this evening 🚨

ITV1 at 18:25
BBC One at 18:55
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