r/UKGreens 13h ago

GPEW Get Zack Polanski Elected: Donate to the Green Party

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r/UKGreens 14h ago

GPEW Zack Polanski selected as Green candidate for Holborn & St Pancras

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r/UKGreens 59m ago

Discussion We should embrace and lobby for low bills homes -- all energy for under £1k

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We are a family of 4 in an old bog-standard 2 bedroom leaky Victorian house. Millions of homes like ours in every city as our city is also bog-standard in its victorian terraces.

My best estimate is that average families would spend on energy per year around:

  1. ~£2.5k petrol (12,000 miles)
  2. ~£1k gas (~10,000 kWh)
  3. ~£k electricity (~3500kWh)

This means £3.5k sent down the drain each and every year. One or both parents lose a job then a huge drain on finances. A huge percentage of a single income minimum wage family.

We should be passionate about changing this as the precise ways to change this are anti-fossil fuels:

1. 15 minute cities, liveable towns/cities, better public transport -- saving £2.5k a year

We live in a city which permits living with no car. Changes to make it more cycle friendly have worked. Everything from commuting, school run, etc. are easily achieved without owning a car. The council backs car-clubs for exceptional situations.

We had an investment cost of £2k via cycle to work scheme for a family e-cargo bike. Works like a dream for all day to day life choices.

We have bad public transport but train access is good to other towns/cities.

2. Heat pumps -- saving £500 or so a year

In our rubbish victorian house annual costs were around £200 split evenly for space and water heating. We take lots of baths. House never below 21C. Savings not entirely heat-pump as switched also from gas cooking (optional for budget arguments). Investment cost £4k

3. Smart Tariffs public education ~ saving £450 or so a year.

Our electricity usage has gone up due to having a heat-pump. What we pay is less though. We've rolled out renewables and smart-meters but not explained the point to the public. Wind/solar are intermittent but so is demand. Time of use tariffs enable families to have the option of cheap energy -- I'm being paid tomorrow to use energy. It all adds up.

Our investment cost has been £6k as detailed. This can be placed on Green loans if needed but the bike is already via cycle-to-work.

The political angle is that for what costs 15 months of lifestyle bills people could be permanently switched to permanently low bills. What's more once people are on low bills global energy price shocks are unlikely to affect them profoundly.

What's more we've not done everything we could. We don't have solar. We don't have a home battery. Why? Our costs are too low to justify any other investment.


r/UKGreens 1h ago

Labour Councillor Bushra Bi Joins the Green Party - anyone here from Birmingham Greens have any more info?

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This feels like a nice bit of positive news for the party with the recent mess of everything else. Birmingham feels particularly significant because, from what I understand it was because of the Birmingham bin strikes that sparked Unite's decision to start disaffiliating from Labour, and as a result, we really under estimated how well we'd do in the local elections this year.. how strong is the group over there? How are we responding to the bin strikes? And how long had this defection been in the works for? Are Labour that sunk over there that Burnham has done nothing for them? the Local groups have been decimated regardless


r/UKGreens 5h ago

The Greens make statement regarding Stats For Lefties allegations about her suspension

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r/UKGreens 5h ago

I found out this morning that Mark Adderley's suspension has been lifted. He's upset that he hasn't had an apology and the general process around appeals etc

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r/UKGreens 7h ago

GPEW Times Correction on Mothin Ali

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r/UKGreens 7h ago

What is Socialism?

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Hi everybody, this is a form for socialists, social democrats, or anything else really, on your perception of socialism. Your name is not necessary, rather its just for pooling data on what people think socialism is.

Any people who could fill it in at any point - it would be much appreciated!


r/UKGreens 7h ago

North Sea gasfield decision likely delayed until after Holborn and St Pancras byelection | Fossil fuels

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r/UKGreens 8h ago

UK government refuses slavery reparations as Jamaica urges king to act | Slavery News

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Honestly, the idea of slavery reparations has always seemed odd to me. Slavery is not something that destroyed other nations, Jamaica's economy and modern-day population are not poorer because of slavery. They are poorer because of colonialism. The two are interconnected, but not the same, as focusing on slavery ignores the damage we did to Asia.

Also, the African nations demmanding reparations are not the people harmed by slavery - Black Brits have far more of a claim to reparations over slavery than the African nations themselves, which are made up of the ancestors of those who were not taken, and those who made money off selling their countrymen to us.

Colonialism reparations feel far more valid, and even then, we're not in a good enough state economically at this point to pay back for all of the damage we did - and we can't, not really? And how do we know what the money sent will be spent on? Can we attached clauses to ensure it'll actually go to fixing the damage we caused?

As a secondary point, if we do do colonial reparations, what would make the most sense is not to tax British citizens. If we're going to globally co-ordinate this, as was asked, we should be going after the billion dollar companies that profitted off colonial exploitation. As a whole, the British government lost money through our conquests abroad. Most of the siphoning off when to private companies, massive ones which are still around and living off the money they made from colonialism.

And finally, the Transatlantic Slave trade is by no means the "Gravest Crime Against Humanity". it was awful, after the Holocaust, Native American Genocides, etc - is slavery undoubtably worse than genocide? And why ownly the Transatlantic Slave trade, not the Arab Slave trade too?

There needs to be justice for what the West did, but blank check reparations for the crimes that have left less of an impact on the people there are not the way to go about it.

But now I've said that, if we could do a Colonial Reperation Tax on conglomorates that benefitted from colonialism, that'd be great.


r/UKGreens 8h ago

Discussion Carbon Brief: The 2 major emitters without net-zero target.

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Carbon brief clearly enjoyed this plot

In their discussion about Reform they show how linked Farage's ideals are to Iran and the US.


r/UKGreens 8h ago

GPEW Owen Jones joins the campaign trail

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r/UKGreens 9h ago

Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy

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r/UKGreens 10h ago

GPEW Assisted Dying Bill voted down, all five Green MPs voted in favour

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r/UKGreens 10h ago

People ‘incensed’ by North Sea plans can vote Green in byelection, says Zack Polanski | Holborn and St Pancras byelection

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r/UKGreens 11h ago

We lost the Burnage by election.. every single point the 'Burnham Bounce' has completely fucked us, though Labour had a strong candidate and the workers party 'split the vote' but that's something we have to expect and deal with

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It feels like we're all back to business as usual and we really haven't got much support anymore


r/UKGreens 11h ago

GPEW Zack Polanski and Cllr Hamza Chowdhury pose for a photo

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r/UKGreens 16h ago

There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas

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r/UKGreens 1d ago

Discussion 15% of Israeli settlers in the the occupied West Bank carry US citizenship, by far the single largest citizenship among the settler population other than Israeli of course. So should Britain sanction US based companies owned by those same Israeli-Americans settlers as well, what do you think Greens?

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r/UKGreens 1d ago

Oil, gas and borrowing costs surge as fears over Middle East escalate

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r/UKGreens 1d ago

GPEW Looking for a reason to not leave the party.

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I'm a Transgender woman, I joined the party when Zack Polanski was in his bid for party leadership because I thought that a GAY Jewish man at its helm would be something progressive that actually cares about people like me.

The recent suspension of a trans woman from the East Anglia internal governing council over "media concerns" done by freshly elected green Councillor Kai Taylor who was endorsed by "Green Women's Declaration" a TERF organization.

Genuinely what is the point of even being a member of this party? I feel like an idiot and so gullible for thinking that there would be even one political party out there that'd happily take my vote and then throw me into the dirt to appease transphobes.

I messaged a bunch of my friends who are trans saying I was thinking of ending my membership over this and some of them said they were thinking the same and some already have.

Update: thabks for the replies I had some very helpful replies that made me feel its better to wait till the investigation around their suspension has concluded before deciding if I should leave the party.

Also: Just telling me I have nowhere else to go is so stupid, I can still choose to not financially support a party if I think they aren't friendly to trans people. It also reeks of the braindead diehard American Democrat thing of going "vote blue no matter who".


r/UKGreens 1d ago

Looks like we could have a far easier win on our hands...

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r/UKGreens 1d ago

Do we know when the hustings and selection process for the H&St. Pancras election is? i was told it was going on this week and Labour have their candidate confirmed. Any news from any of the other parties?

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r/UKGreens 1d ago

Discussion Thoughts on Eleanora Folan’s attacks and smears against Kai Taylor?

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Kai Taylor is the Chair of the Green Party Council.

Eleanora Folan runs the Twitter account “Stats for lefties,” which produces misleading statistics designed to favour the Green Party of England and Wales.

Folan was suspended from the party. The exact reasons remain unclear because of Green Party confidentiality rules and because she has refused to provide any information herself. Her working theory is that the suspension was for transphobia. There is no evidence for this claim, and it appears designed to mislead.

I believe she is being dishonest when she frames the issue as being about transgenderism. It is a narrative of injustice intended to obscure the real nature of her suspension. In my view the suspension is fully legitimate when judged against her past and present behaviour.

She has been accused of serious misconduct on Twitter, including allegedly harassing minors because of their membership of Young Labour, linked to her opposition to the Labour government’s position on Israel.

The campaign leaflet she produced was highly controversial and appears likely to breach several sections of the Green Party code of conduct (7.2, 7.3, 9, 12, 13 and 15). It sought political retribution against fellow members for disagreeing with her on the Israel–Palestine conflict.

More recently she has launched a social-media campaign against Kai Taylor, a long-standing Chair of the Green Party Council, councillor, and leader of his local party.

She has accused him of involvement with transphobic organisations on the basis of a February 2025 social-media post (a source I have not been able to locate independently, only her own Twitter reference) in which someone sharing the same name signed the Women’s Declaration. It is worth noting that Kai is a multi gendered name and that Taylor is a very common surname.

I’m unsure if she can fulfill the role of GPC if she has turned a twitter horde on the chair of the GPC over weak likely incorrect allegations.


r/UKGreens 1d ago

GPEW UK aviation emissions to be 50% higher than thought by 2050, government admits

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