Zoe Garbett - Green mayor for Hackney

My manifesto is 3 words long.

I didn't realise there was an Irish Traveller flag. More research needed but I strongly suspect most Travellers are unaware of this too. Like other posters I think it would make more sense for the Greens to pay more attention the environment and other more pressing issues.

Quite a slap in the face for women to know the Greens will campaign for just about anybody but women.

They're like the Monster Raving Loony Party, but with zero SOH and even less practicality. I would genuinely trust Howling Laud Hope to run the country more rationally than them.
How about talking about the environment...y'know, the clue is written on the front of the tin, the <Greens>.

That’s brilliant! Campaign for something that already exists, then you can take the credit when your dim-witted followers find out they have these rights!
If I ever stand for political office, I’ll promise to make arson illegal, ban the police from shooting carol singers and give pedestrians the right to cross the road at pedestrian crossings. I’ll be onto a winner.

Text of letter sent:

https://haringey.gov.uk/news/joint-letter-to-minister-women-equalities

I found it bizarre that Hackney proudly displayed an Irish Traveller flag over the town hall, but has trouble flying the English flag! That added with their insane choice to stop the twinning of Hackney with a diverse town in Israel and giving them a deadline of the 7th October! WTF has Hackney become! I lived there for 25 years and this woman is so out of touch about the actual community! It’s always been a diverse and flourishing place, where different communities lived safely side by side! She doesn’t realise her extreme left way of thinking could ruin it all!

Left-wing councils have launched a co-ordinated effort to defy rules on single-sex spaces, with some refusing to make staff run services on the basis of biological sex.

Labour, Green and Liberal Democrat authorities said they would resist implementing the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) code, which came into force on Wednesday, as women pushed legal action to force public bodies to comply with the law.

The leaders of six London boroughs — Lambeth, Hackney, Haringey, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest — made a joint commitment to keep their services “inclusive” and warned the rules “will feel like an attack” on transgender and non-binary residents.

In a joint letter, they said: “Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary identities are fundamentally valid.” They described the code as “harmful to the rights of trans people” and said: “We won’t put our staff in the impossible position of policing entry to public spaces.”

Full article at https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/ehrc-guidance-single-sex-spaces-xslts8v3w

And at https://archive.is/ft943

It was probably the one where trans rights activists stabbed an effigy of Andy Burnham in the eyes.

Thanks for taking the time to make it out.

I wonder if some photo library sent the Jerusalem Post some random demo outside Hackney Town Hall or that was linked to the vote about Haifa.

But yes, omnicause is as plausible as Green logic!

I thought at first that it said "Christian Law".

Zoomed in and it says:" Cllr Dylan Law/ Hackney Council/ Transaction 4 Housing Justice"
There are also 2 very small words that I can't read.

Google tells me that Dylan Law is Statutory Deputy Mayor of Hackney Cabinet Member for Safer Homes and Housing Services Cllr for Hackney Downs.

I see that a couple of the people with the big white banner have got TRA flags. The one with pink hair probably identify as trans.

The omnicause strikes again.

(Edited to fix a typo)

They wanted to purchase Springfield Park for their own exclusive use iirc. But the borough wouldn't play ball. They aren't twaw that's for sure. Though it's hard to see the issue ever impinging upon them. The children attend their own schools. Lubavitch? My Hasidic neighbours in Upper Clapton were probably Conservative minded but seemed rather uninterested in national politics.

Just no, no , no . Slightly less bonkers than the Scottish Greens but that isn't saying much.

You're not expecting logic and consistency from this crew, are you?

Well that really is confusing.

I wonder whether the picture was from some other demo?!

I can't read the something law, but it's 'trans action for housing justice'.
I think.

I noticed that.
I note that she's shifting the blame onto the officers...

Sorry obviously didn't describe what I was talking about.

The left hand picture has a banner top right of that picture that says something like:

something Law
Hackney Council
** TransAction
4something Justice

????????????

Just wonder if this was a 2 for 1 protester !!

Haha yes.

She doesn’t strike me as the brightest spark.

There's an error in that letter. Garbett says it's a 'regretful' error, not a regrettable one. Ignoramus

@IwantToRetire

It says "If you are against co-existance, you are pro-war"

I see we have a transactivist in the left hand picture

Sorry to add another post but I meant to ask this last night.

Can someone with good eye sight look at the picture in this article https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-903988

In the left hand picture what does the square sign at the top right hand side say?

Have just seen they have opened an online survey for people to comment on the decision. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/29/hackney-votes-to-cut-ties-with-israeli-city/

Have now seen there is a link to the apology letter. https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20260730-Mayor-Garbett-to-Mayor-Yahav-Haifa.pdf