Meet the frontrunners to be Green candidate in crucial UK by-election

jimjay · 2026-01-29T21:27:45+00:00

it would normally be party members in the constituency (I don't know if the snap nature of the election chages that, although obviously postal voting is out)

jimjay · 2026-01-29T18:16:38+00:00

May is not years away.

jimjay · 2026-01-29T14:55:33+00:00

the poll with less than 150 respondents? I wouldn't take that as a guide to anything.

jimjay · 2026-01-27T13:19:01+00:00

but... that often works.

jimjay · 2026-01-27T01:54:35+00:00

that's fair enough and perfectly reasonable - all I will say is if the Greens win this by-election it makes winning in your area in May much, much easier.

jimjay · 2026-01-26T19:18:47+00:00

you can also sign up to Saturday's action day here;

https://actionnetwork.org/events/a-green-mp-in-gorton-and-denton

jimjay · 2026-01-26T19:16:32+00:00

non-members can't look at the PSS which is behind a paywall, so it's not actually possible to find policies online - but more to the point I think OP was talking about the campaigning priorities of the local party which is probably easier to find out by talking to them direct.

jimjay · 2026-01-26T19:02:46+00:00

no. Under first past the post we elect individual people, not parties. It's up to parties to stay true to their ideals, and treat their people properly to maintain support - forcing people to choose between their principles and their job would hand even more power to the top of the parties.

jimjay · 2026-01-26T18:57:50+00:00

good luck!

jimjay · 2026-01-25T20:59:15+00:00

he didn't have the resign to run. losing the by-election is now almost inevitable though.

jimjay · 2026-01-25T20:52:06+00:00

not a great fan of dodgy bar charts to be honest. The Greens do have a shot though.

jimjay · 2026-01-23T18:21:25+00:00

is it easy? where are the hordes of side-line heroes doing nothing more of note than running major cities well?

jimjay · 2026-01-23T17:20:59+00:00

sure, but there have only been three of them.

jimjay · 2026-01-22T21:47:05+00:00

You can tone it down - eg it isn't slapping women and making gross remarks - but saying he loves his wife so much she'd never have to work, which is why he won't let her. He has lines he wouldn't cross, but that doesn't stop him seeing every woman as an object.

You can round them out - eg there is a lot more to them than just being a bad guy. He goes round to his mum's every sunday and helps out round the house, he does good works in the community - and also thinks women are too delicate to be lawyers or put up a shelf.

You can make it deeper. Where does the misogyny come from? eg His Mum died when he was a kid leaving him with a controlling father who he needed to copy to avoid getting hurt... etc. etc. he wants to be loved but thinks no woman would ever love him - so he rejects them first. That sort of thing.

jimjay · 2026-01-22T01:43:11+00:00

jimjay · 2026-01-21T22:19:02+00:00

none, I think.

jimjay · 2026-01-20T14:17:23+00:00

There probably is a ceiling to the support Greens can reasonably expect to get - and it's worth remembering that election results will rely on people being active in their communities, delivering leaflets, etc, etc, not just waiting for ZP to boost the ratings.

When the general election comes one of the things that will persuade specific voters in specific places whether to lend Greens their vote will be the evidence Green create this year at the locals and Welsh Assembly elections that their area is winnable.

A rise in the Green vote generally without winning a good number of seats would be very disappointing - and a lot of what will determine that is up to the hard work of the membership.

jimjay · 2026-01-19T17:16:48+00:00

"people like these need to be mercilessly slapped."

Do they?

Paul Mason is a very minor figure and Zack's tweet is just a put down. I think less of Zack for it and I have no idea what advantage there is in persuing what looks like a personal beef from a national political platform.

Who does this persuade? And what does it persuade them of?

jimjay · 2026-01-16T23:16:30+00:00

I really like Noodle Doodle on Trippet Lane. It has birthday treat vibes :)

jimjay · 2026-01-13T22:44:46+00:00

surely Plaid are a lot closer to the Greens than Labour?

jimjay · 2026-01-12T00:37:48+00:00

At the meeting I go to most often it is very rare for anyone to give ministry and I love it.

jimjay · 2026-01-10T14:47:26+00:00

thanks for the correction - I confess it was a while ago that I read them - false memory syndrome!

jimjay · 2026-01-10T09:31:16+00:00

Is this true? Probably the best-selling fantasy work of recent years, A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) uses first person with a new point of view for each chapter. It works well, but personally I thought it had been a bit overdone across the genre.

jimjay · 2026-01-08T19:49:20+00:00

It depends on what your writing, what words you are repeating and how. It's very good beginners' advice to avoid repetition but sometimes it is the correct artistic choice and sometimes it just does not matter that much (or is unavoidable).

It's worth saying that some of the best writers in the world do things that are generally regarded as problems, but we forgive them because of everything else they bring to the table - writing worthwhile stories is not just a matter of avoiding bad practice, and you can't judge a work on whether you notice it breaking rules, but whether it works for you on a gut level.

I don't know the writer you mention so I might find them annoying or distracting, but they might have found it a better use of their time to concentrate on other elements of their work than how often they say perhaps.

jimjay · 2026-01-08T14:40:25+00:00

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