RE: https://mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/116567851985441461

What is Labour doing to win Green votes back?
Or are they just going to call us Anti-Semites and Terrorists and think they can 'neg' their way back into our hearts?
Odd people...

....who are not 'meeting the moment'

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lol, fuck off Wes Streeting....

...no wait, on behalf of the Greens...'go for it Wes, give it 110%' 😉

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Measures to tackle the cost-of-living, climate change and inequality Hannah Spencer MP said:

My Green colleagues and I are so incredibly disappointed in this King’s Speech, but it’s not a surprise. In the wake of a devastating set of local election results for the Labour Party, the Prime Minister and the government should have used this opportunity to lay out an urgent, transformative, progressive programme to redistribute wealth, tackle the nature and climate crisis and make life affordable for everyone.

My Green colleagues and I will seek to amend the government’s plans to include the urgent action needed to bring down people’s bills – rent controls, nationalising water, freezing energy prices, and taxing wealth. We need to see these measures despite the Labour Party’s drama, and even if there’s a different Prime Minister this time tomorrow!

I’m disappointed that instead of using this opportunity to get behind the Green Party’s demands, the government has laid out more of the same fiddling around the edges. There’s some positive movement on democratic reform and EU alignment, but also worrying double-downs on airport expansion and their cruel, unworkable immigration policy.

I was elected to give a voice to a politics that represents everyone. This is the first King’s Speech I have been in Parliament to hear, and I haven’t heard anywhere near enough to make meaningful changes to people’s lives. It’s a missed opportunity, it’s disappointing, and it’s out of touch. The people of this country deserve so much more.

The amendment will include:

• Freezing energy prices in July to stop them going up by over £300
• New powers to control rents
• Funding for councils to buy existing homes from private landlords
• Water utilities to be brought back into public ownership
• Free bus passes for under 22s
• Universal free school meals
• Further measures to tax fossil fuel companies and the extreme wealth of billionaires and multimillionaires

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Why is there a row about an MSP's immigration status?

"In 2024, the Scottish Parliament unanimously voted to extend election candidacy rights to non-UK citizens with limited leave to remain - which grants them permission to stay in the UK for a time-limited period.

That rule change allowed Manivannan to stand for election to the Scottish Parliament."

So basically they stood perfectly legally and the answer to the headline question is just racism then.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g82j03w94o

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There are around 200 berths at that marina where Zack and his partner lived. Over the last 35 years, that would mean many hundreds of different boats ⛵.

Apparently, only ONE ever registered for council tax 😳 whilst nine people had registered to vote at a bungalow on the property.

So, Zack Polanski was one of the hundreds who didn’t realise the rules applied. The council never chased anyone there. He’s now contacting them to sort any shortfall ✅.

What was sold as “Zack Polanski dodging council tax” is actually a story about hundreds of boaters not understanding the rules, not paying, and a council not enforcing them. A genuine mistake that’s being fixed.

This really does seem like a concerted effort to tarnish Polanski over an error that hundreds of others at the same marina have also made.

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