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Absolutely SPITEFUL that this week had three sunny days and then next week is all rain, but I do need to catch up on a massive pile of BBS work and also fully flesh out my NZ plans (I am there in OCTOBER and some stuff I fancied already nearly booked out?!) so it's FINE
They* are calling this the most prescient** post of all time
* Nobody
** Actually extremely obvious if you think about it
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This is not only incredibly weak, its false equivalence between Farage and Polanski is dangerous. One of them is a threat to liberal democracy, the other one is not. The text is a prime example of how radical centrism and the profound arrogance of self-declared liberals legitimize the far right
Feeling like GPEW are really starting to discover the importance of having a robust system of member approval and management and not just going "wheeee look at who joined us now" 😬
Sir, I have good news and bad news. The good news is the Greens are taken more seriously than every before, with surging membership and attention. The bad news is that includes some absolute weapons grade roasters who should otherwise have disappeared into Your Party oblivion.
As we are neck deep in the pre-election period please pray for me given my inability to type "manifesto" correctly the first time on a regular basis, instead ending up with "manfiesto" which has slightly dodgy vibes, like someone decided "fiesta" sounded too femme so they made it end in a masc o
Yes, saw this outfit existed the other day, very funny to have another Indy nanoparty
Reid said she had taken the decision to temporarily stand down to avoid becoming a "distraction" for the government. She also said it was to protect her children from "intrusion". "This week has been the worst of my life. The shock of recent days has been difficult for me and my family," Reid said in a statement. "I am not under investigation by the police and no accusations have been against me. I have done nothing wrong. "I am voluntarily suspending myself from the whip and will not sit as a Labour MP until internal investigations are concluded. I will welcome and co-operate with any questions and worries the party may have."
I do genuinely wonder if Joani Reid might now have a scintilla, a shred, just the teensiest spark of sympathy for what Dr Beth Upton was put through, a monstering in the media so brutal she quit the NHS, as part of a campaign against trans people that Reid wholeheartedly supports.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
I still can’t believe Joani Reid’s husband is an alleged Chinese spy and an Alba plant snuck into the number one spot on the Labour Lothian list and Anas Sarwar tried and failed to coup Starmer. What a month for the Scottish Labour Party.
In my humble opinion as a Professional Homosexual, I would suggest that queer people are the worst group to make an enemy of, because we have a statistically higher rate of both "time to Post" and "capacity to be cutting", and also witnessing an enemy's downfall is catnip to everyone on earth
Joani, Joani, Joani, Joaanniiii, I see that you have given up the whip
Poll Analysis: Ipsos 19th – 25th of February 2026
Holyrood Seats Projection:
SNP ~ 60
Labour ~ 20
Green ~16
Reform ~ 13
Conservative ~ 10
Lib Dem ~ 10
Independence:
Yes ~ 51%
No ~ 49%
ballotbox.scot/ipsos-februa...
Utterly out of his depth, his response to losing Gorton and Denton last week was utterly contemptible and inciteful as well, this behaviour is despicable, and at this point I really don't care if it's bad advice or poor judgement rather than active malice, because the outcome is evil regardless!
There is so much that utterly disqualifies Keir Starmer from being Prime Minister but I do genuinely think this is towards the top of the list: it's one thing to disagree with the Greens' typical resolutely anti-war stance, it's another to misrepresent that in Parliament as being Pro-Khamenei
Wilbur, that is simply too much having overcorrected your past tendency towards high Green shares
My "dressed - non-sexually - like a nurse" scrubs have people asking a lot of questions already answered by my scrubs
No, this just further tiresome partisanship. Small parties are completely entitled to report their policy wins as exactly that, their policy wins, without having to act as supplementary comms heaping praise on a bigger party.
The MP in question isn't being investigated for those, it's not prissiness to not conflate a woman with her husband
Expecting* further generous donations to BBS from Ross Greer, Gillian Mackay and Alex Cole Hamilton for pointing out they are the, err, least unpopular politicians in Scotland
*Not expecting, this is a joke, my noting what the numbers are is not contingent on financial support
Just one time it'd be good to show up somewhere and have one of the following happen:
I, a champion of several worlds and planes of existence, immediately root out the traitors without being trapped
There are no traitors
Traitors were poorly organised and were found out before I even got involved
Anyway just idly recalling that as I try the brand new WoW expansion. Oh, what's that? Traitors and or corruption from within revealed just as a crisis begins? And my character is totally stunned by this and not immediately defaulting to "right there are definitely traitors here"? Groundbreaking!
As an old hand at MMOs I of course have roots in Runescape: CLASSIC Runescape as well, PROPER old. Anyway, firing it up again in the pandemic, I enjoyed an anniversary quest where an NPC gets 80% of way to asking how your character is always so easily duped, a funny meta comment from the dev team.
Stupendous work from this guy, demonstrating exactly what I'm critiquing here. Weird how the SNP had all these wonderful lower public transport fare policies for years and never did anything about them until the Greens asked, eh? I'm not even criticising the SNP! I'm criticising *you*!
I'm really, really sorry that you are so irritatingly partisan that not only do you believe this but you pop up as a living example of this kind of nonsense in response to someone critiquing it.
Scotland has been at Vacancy Zero for five weeks now! Unprecedented! It's time for some by-elections to arise!
Hello are you familiar with "proportional representation", "minority government", "budget deals" and indeed from 2021 to 2024, "the Bute House Agreement", my guys, my GUYS, we've had devolution nigh-on 30 years. Like the SNP themselves claiming credit, that's just politics, but reply guying? Odd!
I will never quite get over how everyone knows fine and well that basically any "let's make public transport cheaper and active travel more widespread" initiative in Scotland is Green policy, but anytime the Greens go "hey we got a policy enacted" you get people screaming UM IT'S THE SNP THAT DID IT
Joani, Joani, Joani, Joaanniiii, I'm begging of you please resign your seat
Winded myself bellowing abuse at a van driver who passed me within INCHES on a busy road and then I was just short of catching up to at the lights but did not want to get away without being firmly told he'd nearly fuckin killed me
Luv 2 cycle in our car centric society
