Toria Banks
@toriabanks.bsky.social
Probably posting about socialism and disability. Some theatre and opera, but more of that @wearehera.bsky.social. She/her.
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Toria Banks
@toriabanks.bsky.social
· Jun 28
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Don't proscribe Palestine Action
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Palestine Action are obviously good, brave people - better and braver than many of us.
Making it illegal to say so won’t stop it being true, but it will be a further dangerous step in criminalising dissent.
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Making it illegal to say so won’t stop it being true, but it will be a further dangerous step in criminalising dissent.
chng.it/LD8P5ZGDZT
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For a party that has always, and always will, stand up for refugee rights - join.greenparty.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
For a party that has always, and always will, stand up for refugee rights - join.greenparty.org.uk
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You can't pay the rent for long by selling your furniture ...
This is a disastrous strategy caused by a decade and a half of austerity and underfunding
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This is a disastrous strategy caused by a decade and a half of austerity and underfunding
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
You can't pay the rent for long by selling your furniture ...
This is a disastrous strategy caused by a decade and a half of austerity and underfunding
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This is a disastrous strategy caused by a decade and a half of austerity and underfunding
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Looking forward to meeting more Canterbury Greens!
People have tried to say that the Green surge is just on social media.
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Wincheap (Canterbury) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1)
🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2)
➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6)
Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1)
🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2)
➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6)
Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Looking forward to meeting more Canterbury Greens!
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In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
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If the public fucking hate it, then how far would we say these people are good at politics. What does this say about the wisdom of the people who said this was good and smart politics? Does it suggest they know what they’re talking about.
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If the public fucking hate it, then how far would we say these people are good at politics. What does this say about the wisdom of the people who said this was good and smart politics? Does it suggest they know what they’re talking about.
Greens second, Labour fourth.
🚨 POLL | Reform lead, Greens 2nd
➡️ REF – 33% (+1)
🟢 GRN – 18% (+1)
🔵 CON – 16% (-)
🔴 LAB – 15% (-1)
🟠 LD – 11% (-1)
Via @FindoutnowUK, 5-6 Nov (+/- vs 29 Oct)
➡️ REF – 33% (+1)
🟢 GRN – 18% (+1)
🔵 CON – 16% (-)
🔴 LAB – 15% (-1)
🟠 LD – 11% (-1)
Via @FindoutnowUK, 5-6 Nov (+/- vs 29 Oct)
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Greens second, Labour fourth.
Ah yes, the equally unhelpful obstacles of a) unhinged racist opponents, and b) people who like him and share his leftwing politics.
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Ah yes, the equally unhelpful obstacles of a) unhinged racist opponents, and b) people who like him and share his leftwing politics.
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how is this not satire
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
how is this not satire
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Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚
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Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
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Nigel Farage to promise business deregulation.
Translation - Human, employment, consumer, environmental rights will be thrashed. Real wage cuts. Corporate abuses, profiteering unchecked.
Pledge to cut govt spending - cut pensions/benefits. impose austerity. Don't be old, poor, sick, disabled.
Translation - Human, employment, consumer, environmental rights will be thrashed. Real wage cuts. Corporate abuses, profiteering unchecked.
Pledge to cut govt spending - cut pensions/benefits. impose austerity. Don't be old, poor, sick, disabled.
Nigel Farage to promise business deregulation in economic policy speech
Reform UK leader to set out ‘pro-entrepreneurship’ agenda while rowing back on tax cuts pledge
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Nigel Farage to promise business deregulation.
Translation - Human, employment, consumer, environmental rights will be thrashed. Real wage cuts. Corporate abuses, profiteering unchecked.
Pledge to cut govt spending - cut pensions/benefits. impose austerity. Don't be old, poor, sick, disabled.
Translation - Human, employment, consumer, environmental rights will be thrashed. Real wage cuts. Corporate abuses, profiteering unchecked.
Pledge to cut govt spending - cut pensions/benefits. impose austerity. Don't be old, poor, sick, disabled.
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Every announcement like this reads as reaffirming that he will *not* be prosecuted for allegedly sexually abusing young women and girls, which for me is, and will remain, the actual story.
November 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Every announcement like this reads as reaffirming that he will *not* be prosecuted for allegedly sexually abusing young women and girls, which for me is, and will remain, the actual story.
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Exit polls in the Netherlands show the far-right defeated by the pro-EU D66 party in today's national election.
Will it bear out?
Will it bear out?
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Exit polls in the Netherlands show the far-right defeated by the pro-EU D66 party in today's national election.
Will it bear out?
Will it bear out?
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Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.
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If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.
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@yougov.co.uk latest has @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social polling in FIRST for all voters under 50
Blimey! Green Party now polling in FIRST for all voters under 50
YouGov’s latest polling shows a collapse in support for Labour and the Tories, stagnation for Reform… and historic highs for the Green Party.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@yougov.co.uk latest has @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social polling in FIRST for all voters under 50
So they fact checked this and it really happened, to a woman he is related to who is of his parents' generation, and they want it to be scandalous he calls her 'auntie'?
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So they fact checked this and it really happened, to a woman he is related to who is of his parents' generation, and they want it to be scandalous he calls her 'auntie'?
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All the worst mistakes have started because out of a weak futile conceited gutless desire to please I've done something I didn't want to do.
October 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
All the worst mistakes have started because out of a weak futile conceited gutless desire to please I've done something I didn't want to do.
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Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Amazing.
Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett -- a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy -- a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe ... "
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Amazing.
“I have to concede the ingenuity and verve with which Del Toro pulls off a storytelling switch to the creature’s own point of view, allowing him to narrate his own experiences…absurd, and yet…”
Has *no one* read the book?!
Has *no one* read the book?!
Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama
Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual style
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
“I have to concede the ingenuity and verve with which Del Toro pulls off a storytelling switch to the creature’s own point of view, allowing him to narrate his own experiences…absurd, and yet…”
Has *no one* read the book?!
Has *no one* read the book?!
I know the Reform lead is frightening. But the Labour vote isn’t coming back, even if you want it to. The Green surge is our best hope.
🚨 BREAKING | Greens surge to **17%**
➡️ REF – 28% (+1)
🔴 LAB – 18% (-4)
🔵 CON – 18% (-1)
🟢 GRN – 17% (+4)
🟠 LD – 11% (+1)
Via @LordAPolls, 16-20 Oct (+/- vs 11-15 Sep)
➡️ REF – 28% (+1)
🔴 LAB – 18% (-4)
🔵 CON – 18% (-1)
🟢 GRN – 17% (+4)
🟠 LD – 11% (+1)
Via @LordAPolls, 16-20 Oct (+/- vs 11-15 Sep)
October 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I know the Reform lead is frightening. But the Labour vote isn’t coming back, even if you want it to. The Green surge is our best hope.
My response to yesterday’s #populism take, reshared in the wake of today’s.
Labour have: decided that all problems are too complex to solve, so piss off; and also legitimised the far right (‘right populist’) version of who ‘the people’ are. Of course it’s positive to counter both of these things, whatever you call it.
October 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My response to yesterday’s #populism take, reshared in the wake of today’s.
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I can't even remember if Lucy Powell is supposed to be the lesser or greater evil. Does anyone remember?
October 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I can't even remember if Lucy Powell is supposed to be the lesser or greater evil. Does anyone remember?
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Idi Amin deported 80,000 Asians from Uganda in 1972. So although the Conservatives want to propose the first mass deportation of legal migrants since Idi Amin - especially with the retrospective changes in ILR - Lam is proposing to deport 20 times as many people as Idi Amin.
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Idi Amin deported 80,000 Asians from Uganda in 1972. So although the Conservatives want to propose the first mass deportation of legal migrants since Idi Amin - especially with the retrospective changes in ILR - Lam is proposing to deport 20 times as many people as Idi Amin.