Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
@Lazarou@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
hago 14.02 8ST Polanski is now referring to the Manchester synagogue attack. 44 I'm one of five Jewish people to lead a British political party in the last 100 years. And that also means that I do want to spend a moment to mark yesterday’s awful attack. As a Jewish man raised in north Manchester - I feel this deeply and my heart is with the community. More widely I am the product of migration. It’s why defending migrants matters so much to me. It’s a common Jewish experience - a tale as old as time. Now my Jewish ancestry is confusing and muddled because we’ve always been on the run but from what I can gather together, they started in a Jewish town in Lativa - fled from Pogroms - to Ukraine - more pogroms - Poland - Nazis - to England where they faced their challenges from antisemitism. They changed their name to sound more English - and I changed it back, knowing that real pride comes from no longer hiding who you are. He is now talking about the co-deputy leaders of the party (elected on the same day he was elected). 44 Mothin [Ali], son of a steelworker, whose parents came from what is now Bangladesh in the 60s. Rachel [Millward] who, apart from a Danish great grandad and a Welsh Grandma, has family roots tied to England as far back as she knows. One brought up Jewish. One raised Muslim. One a child of the Church. A leadership with three different backstories, in a country enriched by people from all over the world.
hago 14.02 8ST Polanski is now referring to the Manchester synagogue attack. 44 I'm one of five Jewish people to lead a British political party in the last 100 years. And that also means that I do want to spend a moment to mark yesterday’s awful attack. As a Jewish man raised in north Manchester - I feel this deeply and my heart is with the community. More widely I am the product of migration. It’s why defending migrants matters so much to me. It’s a common Jewish experience - a tale as old as time. Now my Jewish ancestry is confusing and muddled because we’ve always been on the run but from what I can gather together, they started in a Jewish town in Lativa - fled from Pogroms - to Ukraine - more pogroms - Poland - Nazis - to England where they faced their challenges from antisemitism. They changed their name to sound more English - and I changed it back, knowing that real pride comes from no longer hiding who you are. He is now talking about the co-deputy leaders of the party (elected on the same day he was elected). 44 Mothin [Ali], son of a steelworker, whose parents came from what is now Bangladesh in the 60s. Rachel [Millward] who, apart from a Danish great grandad and a Welsh Grandma, has family roots tied to England as far back as she knows. One brought up Jewish. One raised Muslim. One a child of the Church. A leadership with three different backstories, in a country enriched by people from all over the world.
hago 14.02 8ST Polanski is now referring to the Manchester synagogue attack. 44 I'm one of five Jewish people to lead a British political party in the last 100 years. And that also means that I do want to spend a moment to mark yesterday’s awful attack. As a Jewish man raised in north Manchester - I feel this deeply and my heart is with the community. More widely I am the product of migration. It’s why defending migrants matters so much to me. It’s a common Jewish experience - a tale as old as time. Now my Jewish ancestry is confusing and muddled because we’ve always been on the run but from what I can gather together, they started in a Jewish town in Lativa - fled from Pogroms - to Ukraine - more pogroms - Poland - Nazis - to England where they faced their challenges from antisemitism. They changed their name to sound more English - and I changed it back, knowing that real pride comes from no longer hiding who you are. He is now talking about the co-deputy leaders of the party (elected on the same day he was elected). 44 Mothin [Ali], son of a steelworker, whose parents came from what is now Bangladesh in the 60s. Rachel [Millward] who, apart from a Danish great grandad and a Welsh Grandma, has family roots tied to England as far back as she knows. One brought up Jewish. One raised Muslim. One a child of the Church. A leadership with three different backstories, in a country enriched by people from all over the world.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
@Lazarou@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
4hago 13.55 BST Polanski says 'economic model based on austerity and privatisation’ to blame for Britain's problems Polanski says on his first full day as leader he went to Clacton - not a phrase you hear often from the constituency’s MP (Nigel Farage), he jokes. He says people there felt neglected. They need bold policies. 44 We're here to turn our country around. At every opportunity, from the doorstep to the TV Studio, our message is that the Green Party will bring down your bills, cut the cost of living and protect our NHS. Polanski says the country’s problems pre-date Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. M1 These issues are rooted in an economic model built on austerity and privatisation. But this party is clear. We will break the shackles of poverty and hardship that lock so many in. We will end rip off Britain. And we will make sure that the very wealthiest pay more tax.
4hago 13.55 BST Polanski says 'economic model based on austerity and privatisation’ to blame for Britain's problems Polanski says on his first full day as leader he went to Clacton - not a phrase you hear often from the constituency’s MP (Nigel Farage), he jokes. He says people there felt neglected. They need bold policies. 44 We're here to turn our country around. At every opportunity, from the doorstep to the TV Studio, our message is that the Green Party will bring down your bills, cut the cost of living and protect our NHS. Polanski says the country’s problems pre-date Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. M1 These issues are rooted in an economic model built on austerity and privatisation. But this party is clear. We will break the shackles of poverty and hardship that lock so many in. We will end rip off Britain. And we will make sure that the very wealthiest pay more tax.
4hago 13.55 BST Polanski says 'economic model based on austerity and privatisation’ to blame for Britain's problems Polanski says on his first full day as leader he went to Clacton - not a phrase you hear often from the constituency’s MP (Nigel Farage), he jokes. He says people there felt neglected. They need bold policies. 44 We're here to turn our country around. At every opportunity, from the doorstep to the TV Studio, our message is that the Green Party will bring down your bills, cut the cost of living and protect our NHS. Polanski says the country’s problems pre-date Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. M1 These issues are rooted in an economic model built on austerity and privatisation. But this party is clear. We will break the shackles of poverty and hardship that lock so many in. We will end rip off Britain. And we will make sure that the very wealthiest pay more tax.
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