• I was already mad, then I read the last line of their post about the hotline and got the kind of mad where you just see white for a couple of seconds.

    Fuck every single one of those people.

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    They already had such little support. Why do this? This is exactly where those disillusioned by Labour’s policies were going to and they just snuffed out a good portion of that. Especially with that last line. Holy fuck that last line is rage inducing.

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    green party got filled with little labour careerists too fast, even there your party couldn’t hold the fort for couple of quarters.

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    Is the UK going to beat Germany in fully embracing nazism again?

    Also the part about the suicide hotline is absolutely outrageous.

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      ’ Looked like UK were charging towards a strong lead for a while there, having committed domestic genocide, and imprisoning people for free speech, ongoing hegemony-complicit commitments, etc.

      But… seen the German election result 2026, a day or so ago? AfD won. Germany back on top. Winning [\s]. :(

      … Maybe that’s why the UK’s trying even harder now…? Even the greens are getting in on it? o_O Are we soon up to “Dear UK Green Party… Why yes I would like to accept your offer of a train ride to protect the environment.”??? [/s(?)]

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      Yeah, if as reported, that’s going to radically nudge the UK green party’s pinpoint on the political compass up and to the right.

      Not allowed to be as you are because money? Not allowed to be as you are because our money and power at threat by not pandering to perceptions of public popular perception? Not allowed to be as you are because ticked the wrong box on bureaucratic form?

      Not my greens.

      Need more sane peeps going green, to dilute the crazy-on-crazy (that I suspect comes almost entirely from agent provocateurs), to dilute the agent provocateur infiltration, to help look out for each other, and keep focus on what the green parties are supposed to be about.

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        aaaa there is no UK green party. The Green Party of England and Wales is pretty shite, the other Green Parties in the UK are significantly better.

        The Scottish Green Party just a few years ago successfully got a very progressive Gender Recognition Act voted through Scottish parliament (which the UK government then squashed). They assuredly still have problems, but they support Scottish independence, and they’ve successfully got a bunch of actually good things ™ into law.

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            Stings every time, when voting in UK elections, rather than Scotland’s. Not just because Westminster has no list system or any other kind of proportional voting, ranked choice, anything other than first past the post. But also because the resulting effects of that, the parties are more corrupt and coerced by the terror induced by the system to be more duplicitous and crap, and so it’s just blatant in your face, there are no good choices [if the “good” choice parties even run a candidate], and the more you try to vote for a good choice, [(albeit a signal to other sheeple to vote with their conscience next time now that others are too)], the more in that election you risk letting the worst in power… Like the system itself is constantly pushing for and towards kakistarchy.

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              I lived in England most of my life. First year in Scotland, and immediately it was the first time a (at least vaguely) left-wing party, one I voted for, actually got in government. One that went on to pass like, three laws that actually benefit me and others, surreal experience. Somehow, over time living in the same place, my rent, my dentistry costs, and my public transports costs all got cheaper, genuinely was strange to see.

              There’s still a ton of problems with it all here, including much of the corruption, coercion and blatant lies you mention. But the proportional vote does make bourgeois democracy about 10% more meaningful, it’s only a 95% endless trudge into misery and despair, instead of 98%.

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    Every liberal oppositionists: “We need to do less identity politics!!!”

    Also every “liberal oppositionists”: “We need to keep focusing on identity!!!”

    We’re bad if we show our identities and we’re bad when we try to mind our own business. Never good enough.