Zoe Garbett - Green mayor for Hackney

As I posted up thread, this really is student politics crashing into blunder after blunder as they dont understand they are now in charge of the borough as a whole, and a council that has process and procedures. And without being ageist, because I was like this when I was young, you dont know what you dont know. But as councillors they have staff to advise them.

Complete muppets.

Look at the photo with what is now a cliched demo pic. Wow, holding flares. And all of this isn't about for instance widening the understanding of their view point or whatever. it is just self indulgent, puerile, virtue signalling to their own tiny group!

(In case anyone didn't read it, I did post a link to a later article that said someone had pointed out their blunder with the date, and so they had to write a letter saying sorry. Would love to see the text of that letter!)

It's so depressing to live where these authoritarian teenagers are now in charge

The Mayor of Hackney has written to Haifa’s Mayor requesting a response on the borough’s intention to cancel its twinning with the Israeli city and specifically asking him to respond “by 7 October”, in a move which has been described as “appalling” and “sickening” by leading Jewish communal organisations.
from
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/fury-as-green-party-mayor-requests-israeli-reply-to-de-twinning-motion-by-7-october/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTYOW1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBDQ2R1YVZHMlczRlh1dkZvc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhs2TfHku4itimBzQTCyn85QqA7pHBTbKtWXqWEdRP0fLPdAHHe3N_hVMYTm_aem_5wJa0FxaQyaxLhk2B2j6oA

Apparently it was all a terrible mistake.

This behaviour is honestly sickening. Nothing like that in a large organisation goes through only one set of hands. Somebody or several somebodies set up the consultation period and okayed the end date. Somebody drafted the letter to Haifa's mayor, and somebody typed it up. Zoe Garbutt signed it.

And nobody noticed the date? They are all either spectacularly ignorant (which is hard impossible to believe, given that they've been so absorbed by this cause for so long), or they are deliberately trolling Jews and Israelis.

So they are either ignorant and do not deserve an iota of power, or they are absolute bastards and do not deserve an iota of power.

The council also provoked anger by scheduling a public consultation on its proposal to end on Oct 7, the third anniversary of the Hamas attack.

The authority, which was taken over by the Greens at the local elections in May, was forced to issue an apology and change the consultation end date after it was described as “shocking”, “insensitive” and a “new low for the Greens”.

Hackney votes to cut ties with Israeli city

Even allowing for green self admiring right on-ness I suspect this is just another example that the reality of their world is so limited by their narrow focus that she will (and still is) oblivious.

But also raises the question that the Mayor of any council is not a lone operator. So strange that she is writing this letter as an individual rather than whoever would normally follow up a Council decision.

Of course, it is just possible that someone drafted the letter for her. And just wonder if this inappropriate deadline is something others are aware of and somehow failed to point it out to her!

https://x.com/daniel_sugarman/status/2082509738110034015?s=46&t=ZX_bLozRqm8etdGICMcAvA

I saw this tweet too. Not sure if it is covered in the earlier information but the date she is asking for the mayor of the city for a response - by 7 October.

Yes that what I said about why there are any Tory Councillors in Hackney because none of the other "diverse" communities would ever vote for them.

And in fact whether earlier in this thread or another one, whether in Hackney or elsewhere, the increase in support for the Greens had little to do with green politics or their other positions. It was about getting Labour out.

There is a long long tradition of only ever voting Labour.

The problem is that our political system, or use ourselves, have not created an alternative party, and why voters (particularly after Starmer) were happy to vote for whichever party would get rid of Labour.

Although as an aside, there really needs to be a discussion about voters! According to latest polls in less than 2 weeks Labour are now polling higher than Reform.

Are people in the UK really so gullible to clever marketing.

We seem to fall for all sorts of nonsense, and then blame the polticians rather than the fact we, well some of us did, voted for them.

@IwantToRetire The Hackney Council wards where the vast majority of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community live are consistently Conservative. See here (Springfield and Stamford Hill West):
https://www.hackney.gov.uk/council-and-elections/mayor-cabinet-and-councillors/councillors/your-councillors

I live in Hackney. Have friends who voted Green this time who have no idea how mental the Greens are on sex and gender identity

I think you will find the Jewish community is Hackney is very active, and in the parts of Hackney with the highest % consistently vote Diane Abbot back into office.

Obviously within that community there are different beliefs and religious practices, so not sure you can ever use the MSM manipulative idea that somehow the Jewish Community is a monolith.

Just as in voting for a Labour MP doesn't stop the fact that the few Tories who do get elected to the local council from that area are more likely to be Tories.

I think the back peddling is that they have stupidly continued to think they are still students, they have handed (just like the scarf nonsense) the opportunity for those who want to have a go at the Greens something to go on about.

In reality, the issue was already on the council agenda because since Covid, if not earlier the "twinning" basically didn't exist.

So I suppose it just shows the Greens are using their control of the Council to virtue signal to a group of people who already support Green policies, and not caring about what 99.9% of the borough thinks are the most pressing issues.

(Dont think this is unique to Hackney Greens but a lot of media people live in Hackney so easier to write a report about that one borough rather then do more in depth research.)

Hackney's got a big orthodox Jewish population if I remember? I think there was something about how they generally don't vote.

Hackney council greens were proposing to de twin from Haifa but it looks like they are back peddling

https://nitter.net/HeidiBachram/status/2082435391152414724#m

Honestly, the lot of them remind me of Citizen Smith.

So not just local councillors in Hackney thinking they are still sixth form revolutionaries.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y063yqlleo

I wouldn't trust them with an allotment, never mind a council

I think he's busy distancing himself from that picture of a leftie beardy with a T shirt calling for the execution of Nigel Farage that he was 'accidentally' tagged in / accepted

This is fantastic from Polanski. We know where the left really do stand on this. The SC ruling and ECHR advice is both a clarification of the law, and common sense. And we see the identarian left as a pure populist movement, not interested in the greater good, but its own narrow sectarian interest.

The Mayor of Hackney, Zoë Garbett, and stars from Tip Toe also attended the press conference that revealed Trans+ Pride would end in Trafalgar Square for the first time in its history.

Polanski and Garbett both rejected the new code of practice initiated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) which states that come August 5th, a service must be used exclusively on the basis of birth sex in order to qualify as a single-sex space.

Polanski said: “By August 5th, Andy Burnham has an opportunity here as a new prime minister to say we’re not going to do this.

“It’s pretty grotesque what the government has done with the EHRC guidance.
“Despite the amount of MPs who signed the Early Day Motion to say during the consultation that we need to reject this guidance, they’re still going ahead with it – there’s no need for this guidance to come into place by August 5th.”

Full article at https://thenewfeminist.co.uk/2026/07/zack-polanski-burnham-single-sex-space-reforms-trans-pride-press-launch/?amp=1

Shades of defending those SNP members at the "Behead TERFs" protest

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/green-party-london-protest-andy-burnham-stabbed-b1290238.html

Not sure if this has been posted, but utterly pathetic. This is what comes of having student politics running a town hall.

https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2026/07/15/hackney-greens-distance-themselves-burnham-effigy-protest/

Hypocrites

Children, and that's an insult to actual children.

They run my local council. I've emailed those named as being present, plus Zoe G, named Ann W, David Amess and Jo Cox and asked why they feel that attendance at such an event was appropriate/sensible.

Nasty.

Bad headline though... "A protest outside Hackney Town Hall in east London called on the Green-run council to refuse to implement guidance on single-sex spaces"

Should say, "refuse to implement the law"!

FFS, and just after Widdecombe’s murder.

TRAs getting in early with the Andy Burnham hate in a protest outside Hackney town hall

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/green-councillors-hackney-trans-protest-andy-burnham-zkmpc9gjz

Paywalled currently.

Via Twitter open source

https://nitter.net/nicolelampert/status/2076759630907326534#m

She’s a Green ….eyed monster