Jake Bostock 🌱

Husband. Dad. Vegan for the animals.

Stoke City & England Cricket.

[Jake Bostock 🌱 @JakeBostock]

Wish he'd stop celebrating in every batsman's face for no reason

[Sky Sports Cricket @SkyCricket]

Ollie Robinson lasers in on Rachin Ravindra's off stump and takes the first wicket of the third day! 🔥

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Nigel Farage hasn't voted in Parliament for the last 11 weeks and has now missed 77 votes in a row, according to official records. The last time he turned up was to vote against adraft regulations for the Employment Rights Act, and that says it all.

[Jake Bostock 🌱 @JakeBostock]

Dara you fucking legend ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #Eurovisión2026

[Jake Bostock 🌱 @JakeBostock]

Antigoni 👏👏👏👏. Absolutely smashed it after a rough semi final performance. #Eurovisión2026

[James Stephenson @JamesMakesStuff]

🚨 BREAKING:

The NYT has released an investigation into Israel's activity at #Eurovision.

They describe "a well-organized campaign" by Israel's government "that embraced Eurovision as a soft power tool - and say the EBU "was ill-equipped to respond."

https://t.co/HqNxNSCoox

[Jake Bostock 🌱 @JakeBostock]

@wizardsofdrivel Paul Peschisolido

[Dan Gliebitz @RealDanGliebitz]

Just took my 93yr grandmother to vote, she’s registered blind. In a very loud voice she said, “which box for Islamism and bigger boobs?” A cheer went up from the waiting voters.

[Jake Bostock 🌱 @JakeBostock]

@Podcastpotters Our top scorer since he signed

[Jake Bostock 🌱 @JakeBostock]

What a fucking sad state of affairs

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage takes photos with secondary school children in East Sussex

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The morning after Hannah won I was asked time and time again about this.

There was no evidence for it. Instead the establishment media fuelled the fire.

It was Islamaphobic. And it's because those in power are scared of us ending rip off Britain.

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

Greater Manchester Police say they have no evidence of family voting after an extensive investigation, including speaking to Democracy Volunteers and seizing CCTV:

We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting.

Our investigation into alleged influencing of voters at a polling booth (under Section 62C Representation of the People Act 1983 (Ballot Secrecy Act 2023)) began after a criminal report from the Reform UK party following a public statement made by independent electoral observers at Democracy Volunteers.

We have spoken to the four Democracy Volunteers observers present at polling stations on the day of the by-election (26 February) who have shared with us their eyewitness account. This includes some instances of more than one voter going into a booth at the same time, and instances of people looking over the shoulder of voters.

The information they have provided to us estimates this may have happened on 32 occasions across 15 polling stations.

The observers do not allege any verbal instruction or physical conduct that indicated one person was directing or coercing another regarding how to vote. This is a crucial part of the legislation to prove such an offence was committed.

Our investigation team, led by an experienced senior investigating officer, spoke to all four volunteers from Democracy Volunteers as part of our enquiries – obtaining a copy of their observations.

We also spoke to the Presiding Officers at 15 stations as well as the Acting Returning Officer, none of whom received any reports other than from Democracy Volunteers.

We have received no further criminal reports.

For us to investigate allegations, we require an understanding of who the potential suspects may be, and evidence that may corroborate eyewitness accounts. For an investigation to meet the criminal threshold for prosecution, we require admissible evidence of intent or action aimed at influencing the vote.

We have asked Democracy Volunteers for descriptions of those alleged to be involved, and timings on when these are believed to have occurred. These details were not documented by observers or the complainant, and we have not been provided with any identities or descriptions to pursue.

The absence of this information means there is no remaining reasonable line of enquiry. This also includes limitations with CCTV as an absence of descriptions, and votes not being time-stamped, meaning we are not able to identify individuals from footage.

We have approached all 45 polling stations in the Gorton and Denton constituency to ask for CCTV from the day. Forty-one of those polling stations told us they did not have CCTV activated in the building as it would have compromised the secrecy of the vote during polling day, in line with advice given.

We have seized and viewed CCTV from three of the remaining four polling stations. These are three polling station that Democracy Volunteers visited. We have spoken to the Presiding Officer from each one.

However, these stations do not show any evidence of anyone directing or coercing another regarding how to vote – the crucial part of the legislation to prove such an offence was committed.

There is no evidence to suggest any intent to influence or refrain a person from voting as stated in the Ballot Secrecy Act 2023.

We have been liaising with the Electoral Commission, who we have shared our findings with. We have also shared our findings with the Returning Officer.

We have updated the complainant about the work of our investigation and the conclusion we have reached.

[Jake Bostock 🌱 @JakeBostock]

@RyanT25_ He just answered the guy's question 🤷‍♂️

[Jake Bostock 🌱 @JakeBostock]

Glad to see the UK have decided to boycott #eurovision by releasing the worst song in the history of the competition 👍

[Jake Bostock 🌱 @JakeBostock]

@ZackPolanski Breakfast of champions

[Francesca Martinez @chessmartinez]

I am grateful to @ZackPolanski and the Green Party for giving me a glimmer of hope in these turbulent times.

Over the last few years, I've found myself waking up in the middle of the night, with a sense of dread. I lie awake and worry about what will happen if Reform win the next election. I didn't expect to be worrying about Britain becoming a fascist country, but that's exactly what has been, almost constantly, occupying a corner of my brain.

I look to America and see what the election of Trump has done to the country. A man who pledged to 'Make America Great Again' and conned people into believing that he was anti-establishment and would stop wars. What Trump has actually done, has been to oversee a huge transfer of wealth to the richest – over $2 TRILLION – and to spark further wars around the globe.

Like Trump, Reform are backed by billionaires.

If you want to know who a party represents, just follow the money. Don't listen to empty words which claim to represent working people or 'challenge the status quo'. Don't fall for the slick words delivered by a bloke that seems like a good guy to 'have a pint with down the pub'. Look at who is giving him money. That will tell you the truth. That will show you whose side they are really on.

In 2024, 92% of Reform's donations came from fossil fuel interests. Since 2023, Reform has received almost £5m from wealthy donors, including those linked to fossil fuels, the financial services industry, private healthcare and tax havens. These backers will be dictating their policy.

If a party is funded by the establishment, it will serve the establishment. Any claim made that it's an anti-establishment party, is simply a lie designed to trick people into voting for a party who, like Trump, will enrich the powerful while hammering the many.

Equally absurd, is the attempt to portray Farage's Reform as the party of 'patriots'.
- What is patriotic about voting against making school uniforms cheaper and free meals for primary children?
- What is patriotic about voting against the Employment Rights Bill which will make 'Fire and Rehire' illegal and extend parental rights?
- What is patriotic about wanting to dismantle our NHS and make people pay for health insurance? (The NHS isn't struggling because of immigrants, but because successive governments have cut over 150,000 beds and closed down 100+ hospitals.)
- What is patriotic about voting against more rights for tenants and renters?
- What is patriotic about voting against measures to improve fairness and rights at work?
- What is patriotic about pledging to slash disability and sickness payments to the poorest in society?
- What is patriotic about pledging to lower the minimum wage for young people?
- What is patriotic about scrapping net-zero targets and increasing dirty energy projects?

I'm guessing, for most of us, patriotism means providing quality healthcare, fair wages, employment rights and housing rights for all British people (regardless of economic status) It means wanting our children to be looked after and fed properly in school. It means making sure all British people who are sick, disabled and elderly, are supported to lead dignified lives. And it means protecting the future of young Britons, by adopting climate-friendly policies to ensure they are not left to face the disasters of runaway climate change. True patriotism is about fighting for the rights of the many, and not the few.

If you want to know how to spot a true anti-establishment party, here are two things to look out for:
1) It won't be backed by tax-dodging billionaires.
2) It will be attacked by the mainstream media and / or ignored. (And it won't be invited onto TV shows every week.)

In the coming months and years, the establishment's smear-machine, operated by their trusty allies (the corporate media), will kick into overdrive, and Zack and the Greens will be relentlessly attacked as dangerous / extremist / fantasists / anti-British / unelectable.

Make no mistake, these attacks are concrete proof that they are ON YOUR SIDE.

If we can remember this, we have a chance of changing this corrupt political system from one which is dictated by elite interests to one which actually represents us, the people. But this will only be possible, if we see though their cynical attempts to divide us by spreading hate and fear.

[Jake Bostock 🌱 @JakeBostock]

Embarrassing from @SkyNews

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Sky News don't seem as excited as the rest of us.

https://t.co/MjlmNEWFmk

[Dr. Shehla Khan @KShehla7]

‘Disturbingly, Hannah comes across as a normal human who wasn’t created in a politician factory.’ 😂

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

EXCL:

Zack Polanski overheard speaking loudly on his phone on a train saying there's shit loads of new green party members.

And the Greens are going to win elections right across England and Wales in May.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

I usually go to the polling station with my partner.

My adult children came too when they lived at home.

Was that "family voting" or absolutely fine because we're White skinned and not Muslims?

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Today is the day.

Hope vs hate.

Green vs Reform.

Vote Green in Gorton & Denton.