All the big wigs saying ADHD and Autism are over diagnosed is incredibly damaging to anyone that is living with these or trying to get a diagnosis.
Hell, when they tried to prove that ADHD was overdiagnosed, evidence proved otherwise so they threw all their toys out the pram and kept their voices down as it wasn't the answer they wanted.
Autism isn't some trend. Neither is ADHD.
We're not some "sickfluencers" or whatever other horrendous names you want to call us.
Zack Polanski just took the Greens to record figures in Holborn and they're calling for his resignation. In the same election Reform lost its deposit, not a single call by the same hypocrites for Farage to resign. That's what you call a "twisted media!"
In 2017 under Jeremy Corbyn, Holborn and St Pancras got 41,343 votes 🌹
Kier Starmer in 2024 got 18,884 🥀
Under Burnham Labour got 12,292 🥀
In 2017 Greens got 1980 votes 🌱
In 2024 Greens got 4030 votes 🌿
In 2026 under Zack Polanski Greens got 8928 🌲 💚
And the media wants you to believe Labour is growing stronger and the Greens weaker?
Coco Khan, "The thing I'm worried about are cuts (for defence) will be made and they'll come from welfare, from the sick and vulnerable... I find that abhorent"
"We've been hearing this week there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum.. People were living under austerity, there was already a lack of social cohesion, and that could be manipulated"
"So if you make living standards worse, you make us less safe"
"The idea that the sick, or those on low incomes should have to bear the cost of this, just doesn't sit right with me"
Victoria Derbyshire, "Do you see any difference between former Prime Minister Keir Starmer and current Prime Minister Andy Burnham, when it comes to Donald Trump?"
Coco Khan, "There's been a tone shift.. He's brilliant with words, there's no doubt about that, but words don't matter"
"Everything discussed today, I keep coming back to this issue of renewable energy, no one went to war over a wind turbine"
"I think we can solve a lot of things if we prioritise that (renewable energy"
"Green energy would keep us safe and it would make our lives better"
My view: Coco Khan raises a fundamental question about what national security actually means. Is a country genuinely safer because it spends more on weapons if, at the same time, it is making millions of its own citizens poorer, more vulnerable and increasingly disillusioned with politics?
We have already seen the consequences of austerity. Public services deteriorated, living standards stagnated, communities were left behind, and trust in political institutions was eroded. Those conditions helped create an environment in which resentment, division and misinformation could flourish.
Her reference to Russian interference surrounding Brexit is particularly relevant. Foreign interference doesn't necessarily require military force. It can exploit existing grievances, deepen divisions and undermine confidence in democracy. Making people's lives harder risks creating more opportunities for precisely that kind of manipulation.
And yet, whenever politicians discuss increasing defence expenditure, welfare and support for vulnerable people seem to become convenient targets for savings. Why should people who are already struggling, including those who are sick or disabled, be expected to finance decisions about military spending?
National security must include economic security, energy security, functioning public services and a population that feels it has a stake in the country's future.
At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media.
There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party.
It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.
Oh my God, you guys. This morning when I dropped my daughter off at school, there were some girls wearing hijabs. I didn’t know what to do, so I minded my own fucking business.
Televising a public execution is beyond disgusting and barbaric. The death penalty should not exist, let alone be a live-streamed spectacle.
This is a grotesque violation of human dignity. We must oppose this - and the death penalty - everywhere.
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The BBC are now doing that propaganda thing on Zack Polanski where they drop in an ‘explainer’ phrase just to make sure you know who the Goodies and Baddies are.
So trans women are “biological males pretending to be women”, health stats from Gaza come from “Hamas - a proscribed terrorist organisation” - and now the new one: “Zionism - the belief that Israel is entitled to exist - ….”
That isn’t what Zionism materially now is. It’s a self-entitled expansionist land grab based on a Bible story.
Fact:
The Telegraph's new owners have written in support for Israel into their journalists' contracts.
Not a joke.
Just to emphasise the insanity of all of this.
Zack is going nowhere. The Greens are no longer a party of 50,000 members but a moral beacon in a world of unbridled impunity. The old guard should stop wrecking immediately or, themselves, leave.
@CarolineLucas Why does it sound like the apple of success tastes more like a lemon?
You are doing such a disservice to the party movement by behaving like a jealous ex.
Your voice is valid because it is yours, but not more so than the majority.
Back him or back off.