RT: @DNA23Brugmansia Burnham is ending forty years of neoliberalism by making it slightly easier to cancel a subscription? Burnhamism looks more like Thatcherism lite.

RT: @TheGreenParty Reform’s leaders peddle rhetoric around climate change denial. Their councils act on it.

Last month, Reform-run Suffolk County Council scrapped its climate emergency declaration.

Now, as a wildfire tears through the county, we are seeing exactly why climate action should not be abandoned.

RT: @NEF "Does the case for expansion stack up? The answer is a resounding no. The government’s plans clearly and unambiguously fail the tests it has set itself."

Great article from @tonybosworth on Heathrow which uses our analysis...
https://labourlist.org/2026/08/heathrow-expansion-flying-in-the-face-of-reason/

RT: @implausibleblog French economist Thomas Piketty says to Zack Polanski that it's better to plan and change before catastrophe's happen, then catch up when they do, as we did in 2008 and 2020. Then wonders why Labour aren't adopting some Green party suggestions:

Thomas Piketty, "But what I know for sure is that when catastrophes happen, crises happen, and they are already there."

"You know, heat waves are already there."

"Geopolitical rivalries over, uh, resources and energy supply are already there."

"They are going to get worse and worse."

"We don't know how much worse."

"We had at the Paris School of Economics a few weeks ago, we had this world Inequality Conference."

"I was having, uh, a discussion with, um, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, who is the author of the Ministry for the Future, where he's sort of predicting, uh, enormous heat wave in, uh, Uttar Pradesh, killing millions of people, and then a wave of eco terrorists shooting airplanes."

"And finally governments in the north and international institutions changing the system."

"I'm not saying this is going to happen."

"Nobody knows how bad catastrophe can get."

"What I know for sure is that whatever solution was discussed before catastrophe happened has a bigger chance of being adopted, uh, after the catastrophe."

"Because when crisis come, what history shows us, you know, the Great depression, World War I, world, ah, War II, you know, when big catastrophe happen, governments need to find solutions, societies need to find solutions, and very often they change their economic view and their financial view incredibly fast."

"We've already seen that to a small extent after 2008 and 2020, uh, look, you know, Europe was supposed to have a currency where you cannot print, uh, uh, euro."

"And then suddenly they started printing euro like crazy, started to borrow together after 2020, which was supposed to be completely impossible."

"And we will have in the future much bigger crises to address than what we had in 2008, 2020."

"So governments will have to find solution."

"And we are not heading for steady times."

"We are heading for times with, you know, lots of crises will happen."

"So we need to think in a sort of bold way about different trajectories."

"And that's what we're trying to do in the Global Justice Report."

"And I know to a large extent this is also what you are trying to do by opening up the discussion on wealth tax and putting together, uh, ecological objective, uh, uh, with equality objective in, uh, Baytown."

"And I think, uh, this is exactly the way to go."

"And I wish the, uh, Labour Party, uh, could also hear some of that and move, um, in your direction."

"I don't know whether this is realistic or not."

Zack Polanski, "It's interesting in the UK because in the recent elections, the Labour Party lost four times as many votes to the Green Party as they did to reform."

"But just the internal politics of it feels like they're very obsessed with what reform are doing and pulling them towards migration as opposed to as pulling them in the other direction."

RT: @DisIdealist The country’s literally on fire, nothing works, everything is too expensive, Trump’s bombers leave Gloucestershire, and in politics, the rightwing parties are calling each other traitors while the PM makes it a priority to make it slightly easier to unsubscribe from Netflix.

RT: @bradfordgreens 🚨 The fifth heatwave is here.

🔥 This is an emergency and Andy Burnham has said nothing about the unprecedented heat, wildfires and drought that the UK is experiencing.

🔴 It's time for the Prime Minister to act.

RT: @Shambles151 Andy Burnham has still not lifted Yvette Cooper's proscription which sees thousands of good people arrested as terrorists just for holding placards.

Please RT this until the Labour Govt which inflicted it (but incredibly still expects our votes) - lifts it.

Thank you.

RT: @PhilipProudfoot Pretty strange that the PM hasn’t called a COBRA meeting despite much of Britain being in drought, farms warning of severe food shortages, forest fires, and another heatwave on the way.

More unbelievable is that I've asked Sadiq Khan several times over years whether the government should nationalise Thames Water and he's never said "Yes."

So less hand wringing and more change.

RT: @TheCanaryUK Green Party leader @ZackPolanski blasts BBC's pro-Reform bias after a Newsnight ambush and press conference snub.

@cjmbaillie reports.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/08/10/polanski-bbc-newsnight-ambush/

A fire now the size of 140 football pitches

Drought in half of England, and all of Wales

Heat alerts across the country.

Already 3000 dead from the heat.

The crisis is here. We can see it, we can smell the smoke.

And we cannot sit by while government sit on their hands.

RT: @TheCanaryUK Polanski wants a COBRA meeting to address the climate while the Labour government pushes for more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea

By @willem_moore_uk
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/08/10/polanski-government-negligent/

RT: @ScotNational Zack Polanski has taken a swipe at Andrew Neil after the former BBC journalist branded his interview with an economist a 'word salad of drizzle' https://www.thenational.scot/news/26450091.zack-polanski-andrew-neil-clash-amid-word-salad-wealth-tax/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1786365490-1

RT: @DarrenBar88 Sums up Burnham's vibes and nothing-much-else brand of politics.

RT: @ScotNational BREAKING: Ofcom has launched investigations into anti-LGBT+ attacks on GB News following complaints by Good Law Project and 15,000 members of the public.

RT: @BareLeft Andy, let me put it this way:

A £5 recurring subscription that's difficult to get out of is annoying.

Nearly 50% of my income going on rent alone is existential.

RT: @fbunational In the last 48 hours, we've seen major wildfires in Nottinghamshire, Hampshire, South Wales, and Suffolk.

This is not bad luck. This is climate change, and firefighters are on the frontline.

RT: @JosephW56436640 The Green surge continues!

#Green votes are going nowhere!

Congratulations to Nick Abear 💚🎉

http://Join.greenparty.org.uk

RT: @Feargal_Sharkey "Why has my Thames Water bill been hiked by 30% overnight?"

Easy. Because the owners have taken over £3bn in dividends out of the company, over £2.2bn in loans, left the company almost £14bn in debt & with a pension fund deficit of nearly £400mn.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-12466461/Why-Thames-Water-bill-hiked-30-overnight.html

RT: @bradfordgreens 🗣 @ZackPolanski: "This has nothing to do with boosting the economy for the people of this country and far more to do with boosting obscene profits for fossil fuel companies and their shareholders."

🔴 Andy Burnham must say no to new oil and gas in the North Sea.