Green MP Ellie Chowns on the elections bill last night: "It is really quite extraordinary that the Thailand-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne has been allowed to donate £9 million to Reform UK. I notice that its Members are still not here" (2/3rds of the way into the debate)
The Christmas decorations in Uxbridge Library are awesome !
Didn’t they oppose universal free school meals on the basis that it would also benefit kids whose parents could afford to pay? 🤔
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
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Re this, my reading of what is written on the webpage referenced is that evidence is a requirement for segregated spaces, not for trans-inclusive provision. In other words, trans inclusive by default.
These things, along with cigarette butts, are the scourge of suburban living. Vapes, vape packaging, the boxes, the plastic wrappers, the stickers decorating the bins outside the shops selling them, the pointless rubber plugs in each orifice… Smoking and vaping litter is everywhere.
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‘Let this missed opportunity to reform our abortion legislation so that it is fit for the 21st century, remind us all that half measures are not what we are in politics to take. In politics, as in life, fortune favours the brave’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is quite something - massive respect to Kate Nash for putting this out into the world. Give it a listen.
Kate Nash - GERM
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I see a party where those with ability/expertise rise upward, and lead with ideas.
I don’t doubt there are things that will need to change, but from my perspective there is lots that works well. The Special Interest group representation and the prioritisation ballot being two examples.
We all need to do our bit to maintain a healthy culture and resist this descent into toxicity. GP culture is one of reasons I became a member—along with reading Molly. Calling GP members/voters you don’t agree with a Tory is such a turn-off.
Btw I think all the leadership candidates are awesome. I also think growing the membership and increasing grassroots participation are important, while maintaining non-hierarchical decision making and decentralisation.
I think part of the concern is that maybe not everyone sees Green as a political philosophy in its own right, and not a direct descendent of socialism. I think it’s great that the party attracts eco-socialists but I wonder if there’s some tension in that philosophy that makes Green thinkers anxious.
Wasn’t he recently voted the most popular cabinet member by their own members?
Which Green Party policies are in opposition to same-sex attracted people’s rights?
So you agree with the fine?
We just finished watching the final series of this and it's simply the most beautiful thing on TV for as long as I can remember.
Some lovely filming in @brunellibrary.bsky.social in the final series too! 💕
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
Today I asked an Urgent Qu: why would the Govt not wait for new Climate Change Committee advice due in February before announcing new runways and bigger airports?
We will see in the morning if ministers act as utterly recklessly as they have trailed…
Did you eat the pigeon afterwards?
And then to cap it all, ever decreasing choice.
I love cars, but they belong in museums. I wouldn’t buy a new car today. I hope my current car will be my last, and that I’ll have access to a car club when the time comes.
For me, owning a car is like being addicted to something that makes you sick.
Car ownership is a miserable experience. When we were young, we looked forward to it, until we reached the first obstacle: the cost of driving lessons, then the car, then insurance. Quickly followed by the heartache of someone crashing into it, repair costs, depreciation…
Looks like Russia's ongoing disinformation campaign has changed up tactics, and is now finding students talking online and deepfaking their voices so they can use them to put out their usual anti-Western messages. The below is taken from this original www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9L5...
