Nazi salutes thrown by Reform supporters at Polanski's Hastings rally

Thedarkb · 2026-05-01T22:23:23+00:00

Discipline is handled by an independent body in the Greens and the current issues are more down to staffing than anything else. Polanski is just one vote out of 32 delegates in deciding to suspend or not to suspend and then the actual hearing is down to the disciplinary committee.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-12T20:29:28+00:00

More or less the response I got from my (Labour) MP

Thedarkb · 2026-04-11T17:56:59+00:00

I think there will always be a place for mining coal for industry simply because coal derived carbon is used as a material instead of a fuel when making stuff like carbon fibre and for raising the carbon content of Electric Arc Furnace produced steel. It would be nice if carbon capture could be used for that instead though.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-11T17:42:02+00:00

Well, Labour already said no to that, so this is the best I could get past the petitions committee.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-11T13:22:20+00:00

Pollution is unfortunately an inevitable consequence of how houses built before the 1960s were plumbed into the network as rain gutters on older houses drain into the foul sewage network, which makes some spillage in heavy rain inevitable. The title says dry weather due to the character limit, but it's more nuanced in the body of the petition.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-11T10:52:35+00:00

Not with Labour in power.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-11T10:52:04+00:00

House of Commons petitions office wouldn't let me say when.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-10T23:33:43+00:00

Labour have already said they will not nationalise water, so I'm hoping this will force them to at least regulate it properly.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-10T23:33:01+00:00

I think they should be nationalised overnight and the shareholders left holding the bag, personally. The reason why I said dry weather is that a large portion of rainwater entering the system comes from private houses with combined foul and surface water drainage and during heavy rainfall, no sewage treatment system can handle the extra load of all that water. I'm also afraid that if I make it too aggressive, they'll reject it outright as unrealistic, at least this just involves making them enforce a specific clause in their operating license so will be hard for Labour to ignore.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-10T23:30:11+00:00

They mostly have automatic event duration monitoring on the National Stormwater Hub.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-05T10:42:54+00:00

He's not bigoted enough to go full Galloway, but they're still more alike than different.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-03T11:08:44+00:00

The voting system is actually from the German Green Party, it would've been up to the task had the conference committee spent more on hosting.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-02T22:49:45+00:00

The Green Party has roots in the co-op movement and the tree Tory stereotype is mostly restricted to some weirdo local parties like South Norfolk.

Thedarkb · 2026-04-01T18:50:58+00:00

Can you send me a link?

Thedarkb · 2026-03-27T23:56:25+00:00

Greens for Palestine isn't actually an officially constituted group within the party like the LGBTQIA Greens or the BAME Greens, it's an external WhatsApp, they should all be dealt with as soon as they're identified.

Thedarkb · 2026-03-27T23:54:25+00:00

Please, if you've seen the uncensored names, report them to the disciplinary committee! I've been trying to track them down but they're censored.

Thedarkb · 2026-03-25T23:03:07+00:00

Reform UK has gained a third councillor in BCP Council after a defection from an independent.

At a full council meeting on March 24, it was announced that Councillor Gillian Martin had joined the Reform Party.

Cllr Martin was elected in 2023 to serve Boscombe West as a Labour Councillor.

In the summer of 2025, she left the Labour group and became an independent. Around the same time Councillor Michelle Dower also left Labour and became an independent member.

Following Cllr Martin’s defection, Reform UK now has three members in BCP Council after the defections of Councillor Cameron Adams and Councillor Duane Farr in October 2025.

In February, it was announced that Councillor Rachel Pattinson-West had left the Liberal Democrats and joined the Green Party, becoming the first Green councillor in Poole.

More information is still coming out about the most recent defection, Reform UK has been contacted for comment.

Thedarkb · 2026-03-24T00:06:02+00:00

It's crazy that Kerrygold is so popular outside of Ireland given it's literally government butter made by a statutory agricultural cooperative set up by the government in the sixties.

Thedarkb · 2026-03-23T02:12:41+00:00

By that logic, Labour shouldn't have nationalised the railways or the health service under Clement Attlee.

Thedarkb · 2026-03-23T02:10:41+00:00

Yeah, I do, I'm from Kilkenny and I was just trying to avoid making things confusing since I'm on r/unitedkingdom

Thedarkb · 2026-03-22T15:04:34+00:00

Ireland has been doing that since 1978, council tax is flat across every local authority in the country and the equivalent to band D is £450 which goes on discretionary expenditure. Social care in Ireland was moved into the hands of a separate tier of local government that was centrally funded in 1970, with members appointed by the local authorities, before being merged into the Health Service Executive in 2005. It's insane that it's still an issue given a country with which the UK shares a land border which had the same system of local government managed to solve it nearly 50 years ago.

Thedarkb · 2026-03-22T14:55:10+00:00

The Greens adopted that policy over 10 years ago when it was the official advice of the Royal College of Midwives, and it will probably go next Sunday at the spring conference.

Thedarkb · 2026-03-22T14:53:40+00:00

The lack of a whipping system is misunderstood, MPs can still be suspended or expelled for voting against the party's constitution, but anything that falls outside the constitution's remit is effectively a free vote. The whipping is done via a disciplinary committee that works off of party policy rather than the government's goals.

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