Siobhán Sarelle 🏳️‍⚧️

I hope you were okay afterwards!

Remembering the times when I pretended to be from the 17th Century and used to meet Tony Benn in a graveyard

I agree with the sentiment, but it’s like you are posting from 2004.

How are the Carlyle Group doing? Can we have some quotes from that nice Russian bloke, Putin, and did you know the moon landings were FAKED?

Sounds like the 1980s to me

Why are you commenting on a post about a really serious issue, with a really poor quality parody?

If anything, the Green Party might be less ‘far left’. Though it is all over simplistic because the party is more left and moderately down the Anarcho axis.

Interestingly perhaps, I think “Ultra” is what the narcissism expert known as HG Tudor, calls himself. I could be wrong but I think it essentially protects his position in ‘knowing’ he is better than everyone else. There is only one Ultra (and it’s me, well not actually me but anyway)

I was going to respond to him earlier, but felt that he’s using environmentalism as a vehicle for his own ego and political gripes, and that it would be like making irritating an already irritable child

Why?

Seems fine. Reform mop up the worst Tories, Lib Dems get the rest, Green Party stays relatively Tory free.

Well, if we’re going to do wildlife on money, then eventually we may get around to having a the image of a toad on one anyway

Could we not just settle this by combining Winston Churchill with a beaver? That way there is something for everyone

Also… Marathon NOT Snickers!

Labour made a huge mistake in targeting the working classes as being Reform voters, then trying to mimic both Reform and The Tories. Labour have tried everything now, and failed.

I don’t think there is any substantial change in the Green Party. I think the Greens have been popular for a long time. What has changed is Labour ran out of road and it’s power, fear of the Tories (now Reform), is failing.

Labour didn’t win, Corbyn left (or effectively forced out, given he’d stayed all those years).

Your Party chaos. Some Former Corbyn supporters go to the Greens.

In a way, some of the Corbynites were Green before they were Corbynite.

The Corbynite thing is interesting. I became aware of Corbyn in about 2008, didn’t register much about him.

2015, lots of ex Labour in the Greens. Corbyn nominated for Labour leadership, entryism from Green to Labour to support Corbyn.

This is a fairly solid response, if going on the assumption that you merely report things.

Memberships triples, the additional numbers must be new people who.. something.. there are more new members than old, therefore behold the Ship of Zackseus.

What is there to takeover? Takeover with what?

Possibly one of the main debates will be around nuclear, I don’t think it’s the pro nuclear ‘lobby’ as such, just people questioning if perhaps nuclear should be part of the answer to ‘green energy’, nothing new.

I am one of the new members.

Except not really. I joined in the 2000s and my membership lapsed, then rejoined.

Some people have rejoined from Labour, having previously been Green.

Some were holding out in Labour for years.

There is a lot of nuance here.

Why would anyone think that?!

I am trying to find some meaning in it, but maybe it just doesn’t really exist.

Yes, the Tories are a good example here. Although absolutely dreadful, they appeared more competent at being assholes in the 1980s. Since Boris at least, they have been incompetent assholes and suffered because of it.

Though I prefer the incompetent assholes tbh

Reading through this so far, this looks like some mention of rights are essentially secondary to some old political positioning and giving credit to some people for something.

Any message about actual rights appears lost.

I don’t understand what reconciliation of rights is being talked about. Women as an oppressed group, trans people (which includes women) as an oppressed group, and these things need reconciling?

What?

In trying to find out more, the main source I found was also someone who went on to show bias against the Green Party for handling Terfs “unlawfully”, because omiting they are basically Terfs.

Reading this, it feels like what is missing from the picture, is more important than what can be seen.

It is not obvious to me why Coultas was making separate points about women and trans people.

The establishment vote was for Yvette Cooper. Corbyn was the grass roots candidate

It would probably be more effective to simply tell people who support fascists not to follow you. That way there’s no confusion.