Car-Free Future

From wine culture to saving Earth 🍷➡️🌲 Radical Green politics: Reforestation, zero fossil fuels, free transit & car-free cities. Change the system! 🌍

[Car-Free Future @quick_philip]

I’ll be honest: nobody on X talks much about wine anymore, but more importantly, the reality is hitting too close to home. I see massive car pollution in my city, choked water systems, severe droughts, and vineyards failing because nothing grows without irrigation. (1/2)

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Please note the Burnham Friends of Israel government has in fact brought in zero sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements.
Zero.
It was another straight out lie from Ed Miliband.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Disgusting.

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

Burnham opposes water renationalisation. Only the Green Party supports bringing water back into public ownership.

Breaking down the economics of water privatisation and renationalisation:

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Sagal Abdi-Wali has just filed her first register of interest in Parliament, revealing who funded her election campaign in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election where she defeated Zack Polanski.

And they stink.

They are from sources with strong historical ties to Labour Together. And through one of her key donors, Sagal is linked to investments in companies like Palantir and Elbit Systems and Boeing. There is something completely broken about how the reporting regime for donations works that we're only finding this out now, after the election.

The returns show that Abdi-Wali had two big donors: Daniel Luhde-Thompson and his wife Cressida Pollock who donated jointly, and Green Britain Group Ltd, the holding company of Dale Vince's Ecotricity. Both donated £50k to the campaign.

Daniel Luhde-Thompson is mega-wealthy. He is one of the co-founders of the quant-trading hedge fund Quadrature Capital. Quadrature, whose holding company is registered in the Caymans, donated £4m to the Labour Party during the 2024 General Election.

It was the single largest donation Labour had ever received. But nobody knew this fact during the election itself, as the donation was only declared after the election as it was made in a specific week-long window that was exempt from immediate reporting.

As I revealed in OpenDemocracy in October 2024, Quadrature had held shares in companies connected to the genocide in Gaza in late 2023 and early 2024. It held an average of $121m in shares in companies linked to the genocide in Gaza between December 2023 and July 2024. This included shareholdings in arms companies like the lead contractor on the F-35, Lockheed Martin.

I've just checked Quadrature's most recent SEC filings submitted at the end of June 2026. They show that Quadrature still has investments in arms companies like Boeing and Lockheed. The June fillings show it held $9m in Elbit shares and an astonishing $117m in Palantir.

What is it with the Labour Party and connections to Palantir?

Luhde-Thompson also donated to Labour Together. He donated £50k at the end of November 2023: smack-bang in the middle of the period when Labour Together hired APCO to investigate journalists (including me and my family) who had exposed Morgan McSweeney's failure to report donations in violation of the law between 2018 and 2020 (of course there is no indication Luhde-Thompson knew about this).

Dale Vince, Sagal's other donor, was also a big donor to Labour Together. He has, most recently, strongly supported approving drilling at Jackdaw and Rosebank oilfields.

We found out about Dale Vince donating to Sagal during the campaign because it was leaked to the Independent. But voters in Holborn & St Pancras had no idea that she was also being funded by Daniel Luhde-Thompson, linking her to Quadrature and, through that, investments in companies complicit in genocide.

There is really something deeply wrong here. Voters were deprived of key information before they cast their vote. Our electoral laws around donations, which allow the mega-rich to dominate our politics, have to be reformed.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

When you thought the Labour Government wouldn't privatise anything else....

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Quick modelling from @VerdantThinking on the Conservative's planned benefits cuts suggests a further 850,000 children would be pushed into poverty... link to blog below.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

"When we recognise that genocide is happening to anyone, anywhere, we Jews know our duty is to condemn it and act against it."

[Bold Politics @_BoldPolitics]

Benjamin Moser discusses the definition of Zionism on the latest episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

Andy Burnham wants to get drilling again.

But did you know that a blacklisted Israeli conglomerate has taken almost £1 billion from North Sea oil and gas profits?

Now, the settlement-linked firm looks set for ANOTHER £200 million windfall. Here’s what I’ve discovered:🧵

[Car-Free Future @quick_philip]

@Matthew82069336 Keeping my fingers crossed 🤞 for you Matthew

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

"The Green Party renews its call on the Labour government to recognise the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and to take the action it is required under international law to prevent this including the immediate cessation of all arms sales from the UK to Israel."

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

No more dithering.

No more delays.

Public ownership now.

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Really? You could start by making it legal to protest genocide in the UK.

[Car-Free Future @quick_philip]

@proud_diplomat @wesstreeting 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Together we can challenge Islamophobia and take a stride towards a society where we all belong.

#IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth l #DontLetItSlide

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Labour thinks buying up the establishment is the way to do politics.

But the public can smell the rot a mile off and won't stand for it any longer.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.

A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.

The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.

This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.

112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.

A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.

And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.

@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.

This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?

NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Abdul El-Sayed in the UK was campaigning for @faizashaheen.

And the Labour Party blocked her from standing.

It's very weird to see them celebrating the wins in the US - as if they share a political platform.

https://t.co/TsFeO8wCIh

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Very pleased to have signed this letter to the Jewish Board of Deputies in the UK, calling out their abiding racism

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

If true this is outrageous.

It seems that Andy Burnham’s latest version of ending 40 years of neoliberalism is handing Thames Water over to US hedge funds.

Labour have stopped even pretending to serve us or our communities anymore.

Labour stand for the hedge funds.