Darren Parkinson

Have you voted for Zack Polanski for Green Party leader?

I have ✅️

What are you waiting for? - Vote today!

⚠️ Microplastics are harming our health & plastic waste is choking our planet.

We need a global treaty that:

🚫 Limits plastic production
♻️ Ends single-use plastics
👩‍👧 Protects people & planet

#PlasticTreaty

Graphic with tweet from Bradford Green Party: 🤑 Million-pound pay packets for them. 📈 Increased bills for us. ➡️ Nationalise water. ➡️ Properly tax the 1%. In background is a screenshot of Guardian article. Photo of Nicola Shaw - Yorkshire Water boss (A woman in a light grey blazer and necklace, smiling slightly, with a blurred background of a train station platform). Below the image, a headline reads: "Water industry Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm".

Yorkshire Water boss paid extra £1.3m.

While sewage is being poured into our rivers and our bills are going up.

#NationaliseWater #TaxTheSuperRich

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Graphic.Photo of Rachel Millward in middle. Surrounded by "I voted" repeated in a circle. Beyond that, green rays like sun point towards the edge.

Graphic. Photo of Frank Adlington-Stringer in profile black and white. Reads: choose winning elections. Choose Frank. Open. Honest. Direct.

✅️ I voted for @rachelmillward.bsky.social and @frankadlingtons.bsky.social for an election-winning deputy leadership team!

➡️ Don't delay, vote today!

#Rach4Deputy #Frank4Deputy

Ah, you think I'm American. No.

I think you may be confusing me with an American.

I just voted Zack Polanski for Green Party leader.

We need Zack's bold leadership to take the fight to Labour and the far-right.

Vote for Zack today!

#BackZack

Who will benefit from the Heathrow expansion? Ultra rich jetsetters There’s something bitterly ironic about a government claiming to take the climate crisis seriously while backing the expansion of Heathrow Airport — a project that will release an estimated 4.4 millio...

You can't claim to be serious about the climate crisis while expanding airports.

Heathrow’s third runway won’t help working people: it’s a gift to the ultra rich frequent flyers.

@greenparty.org.uk will always call this out.

My piece in the Standard 👇🏼

www.standard.co.uk/comment/heat...

White Yorkshire Rose on green background

🤍 Happy Yorkshire Day from everyone at Bradford Green Party!!

#YorkshireDay2025

Voting is open. Zack Polanski

For environmental, social, racial and economic justice.

For growing our grassroots movement & electing many more Greens.

For Bold Leadership. Now.

You know what to do.

#BackZack

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I just voted Zack Polanski for Green Party leader.

We need Zack's bold leadership to take the fight to Labour and the far-right.

Vote for Zack today!

#BackZack

News graphic showing a dilapidated two-storey building with boarded-up windows, surrounded by metal fencing and overgrown vegetation. The headline reads: "Council urged to demolish former school after fire." At the bottom is the Green Party logo with text: "Promoted by D Parkinson on behalf of Bradford District Green Party both at 88 Hirst Wood Road, Shipley, BD18 4BU." The image has a dark green border.

💬 "The owners have shown complete disregard for the community, and the Labour-run council has failed to take strong enough action."

Councillor Matt Edwards speaks out as yet another fire breaks out at derelict school.

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This is also my preference for leader and deputy leaders.

The Green Party will change for the better and I'm so full of hope and excitement.

12pm cannot come quickly enough.

By supporting the expansion of Heathrow Airport and spreading outright lies about decarbonising flying, Labour has again capitulated to lobbyists.
This is its defining characteristic: doing whatever powerful lobbyists ask, regardless of the social, environmental and even political costs.

Graphic titled "Who I'm voting for... Green Party Leadership" with a bright green background. It features three candidates in rounded rectangular panels. On the left, under the heading “Leader,” there is a photo of Zack Polanski, a man in a light grey blazer and white shirt, smiling outdoors. Below his name, the text reads: “Zack is the leader we need to achieve media cut-through, and give our excellent ground campaigns the air game to match.” In the center, under the heading “Deputy Leaders,” is a photo of Rachel Millward, a woman with long brown hair and fringe, wearing a navy jacket and smiling in front of greenery. Below her name, which is followed by “#1,” the text reads: “Rachel has successfully led organisations and a council, is a natural in the media and has 7-figure fundraising experience.” On the right is a photo of Frank Adlington-Stringer, a man with medium-length brown hair, wearing a black top and smiling against a plain light background. His name is followed by “#2.” The text reads: “Frank’s election experience and media skills make him an excellent addition to the leadership team.”

Voting opens in the Green Party leadership election at midday today.

Here’s who I’m voting for:

Leader:
✅️ @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Deputy:
✅️ @rachelmillward.bsky.social
✅️ @frankadlingtons.bsky.social

Make sure to cast your vote!

#BackZack #Rach4Deputy #Frank4Deputy

Graphic: Miles Thorpe

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Green party leadership hustings – snap verdict from The Guardian. Most commentators who have expressed a view think Zack Polanski will win the Green party leadership contest, perhaps quite easily. Voting does not open until Friday and the ballot goes on all month – the results will be announced on Tuesday 2 September. There is a limit to what you can pick up from a single leadership hustings, but there was nothing that was said or that happened tonight that suggests this assessment is wrong. Ellie Chowns came over as decent and reasonable, but Polanski was in a different league when it came to verve, polish and passion. As a member of the London assembly, he was playing to a home crowd, but that alone does not explain why, judging by the audience reaction, he was able to fire them up more. He is a natural performer on a political stage. In a contest with a small electorate (like the parliamentary Conservative party), public appearances aren’t always decisive because the voters know all the candidates personally, and so other factors come into play. Green party elections were probably like that a long time ago. But the party has more than 60,000 members now, and many who vote will do so on the basis of what they have seen on the media. In this space, Polanski seems the clear winner.

📢 Last day to join the Green Party to vote @zackpolanski.bsky.social for leader.

The Guardian put it perfectly: "Polanski was in a different league when it came to verve, polish and passion...he is a natural performer on a political stage."

This is what we need.

#BackZack and join today!

I appreciate the support!

Not one shred of complacency though - not a single vote has been cast yet and it could be close!

People who align with our values need to a) join and b) all our members need to remember to vote on Friday!!

BackZack.com/sign-up/

Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act.
Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.

I'm backing Rachel Millward as my #1 choice for Green Party Deputy Leader.

An experienced councillor with superb media skills she will take the fight to Labour & Reform and help us elect even more Greens.

Voting opens on Friday - 2 days left to Join.greenparty.org.uk to vote.

#Rach4Deputy

Guardian article screenshot. Photo of a dry, cracked path runs through a golden wheat field under a cloudy sky, illustrating drought caused by climate change. Headline below reads: “Food & drink industry – ‘Climateflation’ could push up UK food prices by more than a third by 2050, report says.”

🌍 Climate breakdown could drive food prices up by a third by 2050 - hitting the poorest hardest.

📈 This is climateflation – and it's why we need urgent action on climate.

#ClimateCrisis

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🤑 Let's properly tax the multi-millionaires and billionaires.

#WealthTax