Kit

Sheffield Builder. Socialist.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@AaronBastani @ZackPolanski As well as structures we need to focus on political education - I'm not seeing anyone making that point.

Need a cadre who understand what it takes to win, can explain political strategy and organise - with the foresight and bravery to do it before everything blows up.

[Kit @kitdjones]

Banned from entering Israel, voted against proscribing Palestine Action, consistently campaigned for sanctions and suspending arms sales to Israel. Adrian is a brilliant MP and the idea he isn't pro Palestine enough for our coalition is counterproductive, naive and out of touch.

[Adrian Ramsay MP @AdrianRamsay]

To be clear, I have no intention of leaving the Green Party. I am urgently working with colleagues who share my concerns about recent developments to get the party back on track.

I have been a party member for nearly thirty years, was elected as a Green councillor in my twenties, have served as Deputy Leader and Co-Leader and was proud to be elected as an MP for the Green Party in 2024.

I am proud to represent the views of the vast majority of party members and my constituents in Parliament as a strong advocate for the Green Party's core purpose: protecting and restoring the natural environment in the wake of major threats to society from environmental decline.

The need to push these core Green issues up the political agenda has never been greater.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@ruviexo What are our political objectives?

How do we build the broadest possible coalition to fight for them?

If we are not asking these questions then we are harming the causes we care about. I hope lessons will be learned.

[Kit @kitdjones]

A. So what. B. If that makes you a landlord then so is any working class person who finds themselves skint and has to take in a lodger. Utter bullshit.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

A second Green Party deputy leader is a landlord, despite the party previously claiming she was not, The Telegraph can reveal.

Rachel Millward, a 49-year-old former film festival director who campaigns on a platform to “abolish landlords”, earns £5,000 a year letting rooms in her family home🔗

https://t.co/gnWyi3QAUq

[Kit @kitdjones]

@Anglo_Futurist Obviously it does. Wind and solar are free/cheap so the more we replace expensive oil and gas with these tech the cheaper bills get. Common sense.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@LaveenLadharam @matt_cleeve Interesting. As someone who owns a business in the 85-140k bracket, I'd say answer in making it revenue neutral would be to target revenue raised back at the <85k businesses rather than give it to my bracket. E.g. give everyone finishing an apprenticeship 5k to spend on tools.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@DarrenJohnson66 Being serious about replacing Labour is the *only* way of improving Labour. Indeed, without Zack Polanski we'd likely still have Prime Minister Starmer - or even Streeting.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@godspeed_aflame FWIW they also don't understand how European social democracy works.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@OliverCooper Is the Sheffield one on Gleadless estate? There's some really gorgeous, light flats on that estate. Rows of south facing aspect, shallow plan, looking out over ancient woodland.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@willglloyd Win or loose, the campaign is a gift to the greens, and a chance to shape the national conversation again. Even if he just comes a strong second it would be a major achievement and a warning shot to the establishment.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@andrewfeinstein Love to see this statement of unity. Wise politics.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@CannyJimKenny @DPJHodges Sure

[Kit @kitdjones]

@CannyJimKenny @DPJHodges Obviously I'd love him to win, but you win some, you loose some. And when you loose you dust yourself off and fight another day. That's politics 🤷.

The only way you can really loose is not having the fight in the first place.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@ZackPolanski The media class have written him off...

... So he must be doing something right!

Go Zack!

[Kit @kitdjones]

The media class have written him off, of course...

#ZacksBackBaby

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Labour stands up for corporations and big money.

I'll stand up for people and our communities.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@CannyJimKenny @DPJHodges Why? I think you're succumbing to twitter groupthink. He would be in the same position as now, I.e. party leader outside parliament, but he would have got 6+weeks of national profile to raise issues like wealth tax, cost of living and environment and put pressure on Burnham.

[Kit @kitdjones]

@EJShone93 Doesn't really matter that much who wins - though would obviously be great if he does. The point is it gives him a platform to shape the narrative again. Media will pay attention if it is him, probably not someone else unless it is someone very special.

[Kit @kitdjones]

But there's a bright future ahead for the AI slop party!

[Kit @kitdjones]

@AllyFogg For me it's just that his values and priorities align so closely with ours. Last time around it was never going to be a target for us so the only way he could mount a serious campaign there was as an independent. He's worked so hard there and deserves a free run, if he wants it.