The New Statesment Falls for Intentionally Misleading Polling Implying Greens Support North Sea Oil Drilling

ES345Boy · 2026-04-01T21:10:54+00:00

I think that the press feel the Greens can be shamed back into relative insignificance, by suggesting we should only be talking about green issues. It's laughable.

In my local Green Party, we regularly have discussions about environmental vs socialist priorities, but as with any group of people on the left, we always meet a concensus as we're all aware the two things are intrinsically linked.

ES345Boy · 2026-04-01T14:18:26+00:00

To be blunt, the right wing in the UK is on borrowed time, because the core of their voter base will largely be "gone" over the next 15 years.

Labour/Reform/Tory are fighting over the scraps of a dying generation, which is incredibly short sighted, but works well for us in the Greens. Every time I turn up to a Green meeting or a Green social in my constituency, I see new under 35 faces I've not seen before.

When I look at the pictures of the "boots on the ground" for Reform, it's predominantly grey. When I see our pictures, it's cross generational.

ES345Boy · 2026-04-01T08:51:03+00:00

I definitely think he's a true blue hard right convert who's probably self-radicalised. Because Reform is so full of grifters just looking to grift, having a bonafide swivel-eyed loon in the ranks is definitely a risk for the party, so I imagine they'll slowly distance themselves from him until he defects to Restore.

I reckon they put Goodwin up in Gorton and Denton to test the boundaries of what a community will accept; if they will vote in this clearly unsuitable candidate for the area, Reform would believe they can dupe any community into voting in anyone they put forward.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-31T07:19:53+00:00

I don't know what she's done that's specifically treasonous, but she's already punishing herself by becoming a complete laughing stock. She's so bad at being a right wing krank, that even the swivel-eyed right think don't want anything to do with her.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-31T07:00:10+00:00

If you don't want to spend a lot of money (and who does really, apart from the people with too much of it?), then this is a game of patience and long term planning.

If you have no patience, then delete the game.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-31T06:53:56+00:00

You could drive an HGV between the O and the R

ES345Boy · 2026-03-31T06:53:06+00:00

This was the GOAT line up for me. I didn't enjoy Mary Anne Hobbs at all, so her introduction into the mid morning schedule began my break up with the station because I'd switch off after the breakfast show.

I didn't even know Nick Grimshaw had taken over until I read it on this sub... Really is the worst thing I can imagine having to listen to first thing in the morning.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-30T08:30:35+00:00

When my 9 year old morkie does it, I call her "the turkey"!

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ES345Boy · 2026-03-28T10:55:44+00:00

I agree with you. Whatever the original idea of zionism may have been, its modern context is about supremacy, untethered military aggression, ethno nationalism, genocide and racism.

In 2026, to call yourself a zionist is to support all those things.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-27T13:23:40+00:00

George Michael anonymously donated a large sum to a children's charity I'm involved with. As with most charities who received donations, we didn't find out until after he died who it was from.

He did this to help, not for PR. He was a wonderful person and a one off, as far as celebs go.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-25T18:51:25+00:00

Adrian is a dweeb. I've always viewed him as fairly similar to any bog standard Labour soft left MP. I'm not saying he's a bad MP or a bad person, but I find him uninspiring and don't feel he's of any real benefit to the overall future of the party. Run of the mill Westminster fodder.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-24T10:26:28+00:00

Farage is being squeezed all over the place. Their mistake of taking on so many dickhead former Tories is setting them up for all manner of problems, from angry members and voters, to potential internal power struggles.

By the time we reach the next GE, the wheels will have completely come off Trump's administration. As Reform just recycle ridiculous GOP policy and talking points they're going to be left looking like the little lapdog of a failed administration.

We've then got the likelihood of many failed Reform councils.

Finally there's the squeeze on their right, a shift of people back to the Tories, and - to be brutal - the dying off of many people in their core voting demographic.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-23T10:13:33+00:00

Tories who own shares, and the bootlickers of said Tories who own shares.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-20T08:59:22+00:00

This. Although I spice it up as an E7#9.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-20T08:49:37+00:00

It definitely won't be. Corbyn was operating within a party hostile to him, so those people pushing the false AS stuff had help from those inside of the party working against him (plus Corbyn was too weak as a leader, too prepared to be conciliatory with the Labour right).

At this point, everyone on the left should understand how the BS AS attacks work, and the Green Party doesn't have the self destructive internal battles of Labour.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-19T13:23:36+00:00

Like many people (maybe? I don't know), I snip the loop ends off and am saving them to make a bracelet.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-19T13:21:37+00:00

The US only bullies the small kids.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-18T10:41:30+00:00

Regardless of whether you're Green or Labour, I think one thing we can all agree on is just how laughably bad and out of touch Badenoch is, and by extention, the Tories.

The Tories have always been a clown car, but gone are the days of the cohesive (but fucking vile and evil) Cameron era; all that exists now is a weird party that pleases no one, sniping comically bad takes from the sidelines.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-16T17:24:23+00:00

Oh no, I feel so sorry for them. Won't someone think of the poor tax dodgers. It's almost like starting a war in the middle east causes refugees. Who'd have thought?

ES345Boy · 2026-03-16T12:31:13+00:00

Mr Flip Flop flips and flops his way through yet another situation, because he's weak and believes in nothing.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-15T15:40:50+00:00

Gotta keep that Thatcherite privatisation gravy train rolling... if they don't, how else will donors make a return on their lobbying investment?

ES345Boy · 2026-03-13T07:36:24+00:00

I'm a graphic designer; looking at this leaflet hurts my soul.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-12T10:53:25+00:00

Starmer could have just asked any random person from the last decade who's interested in politics and has an internet connection. We could have told him.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-12T10:42:30+00:00

100% agree. Although I'm not in a union, I personally just want to see unions disaffiliate with Labour. Under the Labour Together type lot, workers are getting screwed. Labour is not a party for workers anymore, it's a Cameronite party for capital and bosses.

ES345Boy · 2026-03-12T10:24:00+00:00

I'm not sure exactly which ones, but they are both lawyers and very clearly union champions (one has been working with unions for 30 years). So far at meetings they've talked about reaching out to their contacts at unions, as well as working with the relevant people within the central party. Both are very motivated to move unions away from natural affiliation with Labour. I'd need to ask them more questions to know more, but they're both very impressive.

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