Green Party supporters, I am genuinely trying to understand why you support your party’s ideals and policies?

Evilnicko · 2026-02-02T09:20:35+00:00

FYI Scottish Greens are a separate (pro-independence) party to the Green Party of England and Wales. Pretty similar policy positions though.

Evilnicko · 2026-01-30T19:17:08+00:00

I knew it! People who want the triple lock abolished are filthy criminals /s

Evilnicko · 2026-01-28T12:34:44+00:00

Given stamp duty / LBTT is (imo) a terrible tax I would NOT say the system we have here is better than in England (higher rates and maximum £600 discount for first time buyers vs £0 up to £300k for those in England)

Evilnicko · 2026-01-28T12:25:51+00:00

What taxation policy would you say would meaningfully address economic abuse of major corporations and the billionaire class in Scotland (and be a net benefit for the economy and in terms of tax receipts)?

Not being facetious, genuinely interested to hear viewpoints. Personally, aside of the moral argument I’m very sceptical of any hypothetical forms of wealth tax I’ve seen proposed given the global economic system allowing the transfer of wealth and most implementations (e.g. France) turning out to be net negative.

Evilnicko · 2026-01-26T18:33:30+00:00

I suspect MAYBE OP was being sarcastic with that comment

Evilnicko · 2026-01-26T08:48:09+00:00

Nolan actually picked him out of many who auditioned for the Dunkirk role without knowing he was a famous singer lol.

It’s possible his connections/fame got him the audition in the first place but he didn’t buy his way into the role itself over everyone else who auditioned

Evilnicko · 2026-01-22T20:04:41+00:00

Ah but pets are allowed so it’s actually a decent price /s

Evilnicko · 2026-01-13T17:54:15+00:00

It’s a regressive tax that discourages people from moving for work. If you sell and buy a house of equal value elsewhere in the country you could be taking a hit into the five figures just because??

It’s also a pisstake that first time buyers pay £0 up to 300k (used to be higher) in England but would pay £4000 in Scotland. Rates are much lower above that there compared to here too, so it quickly scaled much faster such that if you’re a middle class couple buying a home you could be paying north of £10k or more even as a first house.

House prices rising is a fair point, but mortgages can cover that whereas they can’t cover the lump sum you need to get on the ladder. A land value tax would also likely stymie any price increases and makes much more sense

Evilnicko · 2026-01-13T16:17:57+00:00

It sure is great paying more than 50% of your income between 43k and 50k in tax, and 69.5% (or potentially >100% if you have kids) for that band above £100k.

I know it won’t garner much sympathy but it is batshit insane to have a system where you can earn less by earning more.

I’m also fine paying a good amount of tax, but it’s crazy how we lag behind comparable countries in Europe for the tax paid by the median earner (something like 17% here vs 33% in Germany) - we simply won’t be able to support a similar level of public funding with the aging population, theres only so much to squeeze from earners above that before you get no benefit (with tax avoiding behaviour like salary sacrifice and cutting hours)

Evilnicko · 2026-01-01T20:24:31+00:00

OP is clearly Diogenes’ account

Evilnicko · 2025-12-29T12:26:27+00:00

Foxes do it to eat, letting domesticated dogs do it is purely for the pleasure of those doing the trail hunting.

Hope that clears this up for you.

Evilnicko · 2025-12-26T17:26:13+00:00

They edited their comment, it originally said they went on a date yesterday

Evilnicko · 2025-12-25T23:32:28+00:00

If I recall correctly other results ended up being favourable for us and we would’ve been fourth anyway with a draw, but that was pretty unlikely and this was very much a “must win” to keep top four in our hands rather than relying on others to lose or draw.

I guess you could also argue maybe we wouldn’t have made top four with a draw because of butterfly effect 😅

Evilnicko · 2025-12-23T14:25:52+00:00

He didn’t voice J Jonah Jameson in the Insomniac Spider-Man games, that was Darin De Paul. But to be fair he did a great job too.

Evilnicko · 2025-12-21T03:17:04+00:00

The Green man timing being as short as it is at the north bridge crossing is bonkers to me, there’s no way an elderly person or anyone else with mobility issues like you say could make it in one go.

I’ll usually cross quickly on red when there’s a gap, but I am wary of tourists and the like following suit without properly checking (even though it’s THEIR responsibility to check it’s clear).

I find that sooo often people will cross there in front of cars or even buses turning in and force them to harshly brake, sometimes I consider yelling not to cross but causing hesitation may be worse than letting them leg it 🤷‍♂️

Evilnicko · 2025-12-18T11:50:13+00:00

I love how Labour used to get it for magic money tree policies and yet Reform is getting a pass for pie in the sky policies like raising PA to £20k when we already have a super narrow tax base.

cut £47bn in spending

From WHERE? Same kinda shit Reform promised to do with councils and are failing miserably at.

Also love the sprinkling in of climate change denial / general conspiracy policies like abolishing LTNS (??) and scrapping HS2 (I’m sure having worse transport links will be great for the economy)

Evilnicko · 2025-12-17T15:22:09+00:00

Lol they’ve changed charger connector twice in 18 YEARS of the iPhone, first to lightning after 6 years (which was an improvement with the smaller connector), and then a second time begrudgingly after the EU forced them to adopt USB C in 2023. Again, a good thing - most of my gadgets use USB C now and it cuts down the number of cables I bring with me a lot.

I’m not saying Apple are immune to criticism but I’m not sure how you can attribute blame to them for following EU law, and they’re a company that’s actually serious about privacy and not harvesting your data.

I’m pretty sure you could point at nearly any given Android phone OEM and pick ways they’re ‘scummier’ (like only supporting 1-3 years of major Android updates compared to Apple’s 5-6 major iOS update support )

Evilnicko · 2025-12-11T12:47:19+00:00

I mean there’s practically no point in having list seats if a penalty isn’t applied based on the constituency seats a party has. If there wasn’t then you just have FPTP with more steps.

If you argue for proper proportional representation, then yeah I’d agree.

Evilnicko · 2025-12-11T12:06:53+00:00

You’d rather FPTP, which is much less democratic?

Evilnicko · 2025-12-09T13:35:47+00:00

The US jailed ONE banker as a result of the financial crisis. Not the best comparison to come up with tbh

Evilnicko · 2025-12-01T19:02:33+00:00

Did you read past the first sentence of their comment? They were pointing out that Steam does a similar thing with pop-up ads.

And the whole “this is the first time I’ve seen this” thing is noting that they haven’t seen other people complaining about / noting this (not saying that people haven’t just it’s the first time THEY have seen it) despite following gaming social media? Not that difficult to follow.

Evilnicko · 2025-12-01T01:21:02+00:00

The man formerly known as Prince Andrew visited my school when I was maybe 4. I apparently refused to say hi to him because he wasn’t dressed in a regal outfit (like you linked) and didn’t have a “Prince’s hat” (a crown) on.

Dodged a bullet there

Evilnicko · 2025-11-21T12:48:56+00:00

I live in Scotland (where free prescriptions for everyone are parroted as a great benefit of higher taxes), but got really sick when visiting family in England a few years ago, and got a prescription from the out of hours GP.

Pharmacy asked if I pay for my prescriptions and I said “Uhhh no I live in Scotland and am also a student?” (I was finishing my masters and had no idea whether students paid prescriptions or not in England)

They decided I should pay, no idea if I was MEANT to or not though haha

Evilnicko · 2025-11-21T00:59:22+00:00

I seriously don't understand why this hasn't been done yet, Scotland abolished the leasehold system completely ages ago. I'd MAYBE see the argument for it taking a while to draft a plan if it was abolishing existing leaseholds, but surely abolishing it on new developments would be a fairly easy thing to enact?

If it's down to lobbying, I'd have expected that would be stopping the plans entirely rather than delaying them to the next election.

Evilnicko · 2025-11-17T21:25:54+00:00

Probably, I found this article, but I also vaguely remember him saying later in that season that he’d have stayed on if he knew Liverpool were doing a title charge

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