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Rita_Poon said:
What was the green party's stance on covid btw?
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Siân Berry and Jonathan Bartley, delivering the speech in parallel, as the party has done since its first co-leadership four years ago, said the government action to cope with Covid-19 had demonstrated the viability of seemingly radical ideas.


“In the middle of all the horror of the pandemic, we glimpsed that a different world might be possible,” Bartley said. “Communities coming together in solidarity and compassion to care and support one another; our most valuable workers recognised as the key workers that they are, running the vital services on which we all rely; intervention to support people’s incomes; rough sleepers off our streets. In the middle of all the tragedy, all the heartache and the hardship, we had a glimpse of something new.

“Where you have a right to work from home. Where everyone has a home. Where renters have the right to fair rents and cannot be evicted. Imagine if our response to an emergency like coronavirus was to plan and build that better world from the things we learned.”




Unicorns and rainbows.
 
Goat said:
Siân Berry and Jonathan Bartley, delivering the speech in parallel, as the party has done since its first co-leadership four years ago, said the government action to cope with Covid-19 had demonstrated the viability of seemingly radical ideas.


“In the middle of all the horror of the pandemic, we glimpsed that a different world might be possible,” Bartley said. “Communities coming together in solidarity and compassion to care and support one another; our most valuable workers recognised as the key workers that they are, running the vital services on which we all rely; intervention to support people’s incomes; rough sleepers off our streets. In the middle of all the tragedy, all the heartache and the hardship, we had a glimpse of something new.

“Where you have a right to work from home. Where everyone has a home. Where renters have the right to fair rents and cannot be evicted. Imagine if our response to an emergency like coronavirus was to plan and build that better world from the things we learned.”




Unicorns and rainbows.
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What a list.
Communities together.
Compassion & care.
Valuable workers recognised.
Vital services.
Benefits.
Homeless.
What housing crisis.
Fair rents & no evictions.

It's like braverman took all this and ran the opposite way. And what have these had to say about it since....
 
I forgot we'd entered a world where only certain kinds of people get to vote rather than every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the country. It's perhaps also worth noting, and something I'm sure many here complained about when the Tories did the opposite after Brexit, but a government exists to govern for the entire country, not just those who are its most fervent supporters, or indeed those who vote for them.

I can't fathom it. The likes of the rag and GBNews are excuses for news outlets, but during the pandemic would we expect Chris Whitty to not give interviews to those publications because he thinks they stink, or would we expect him to reach as many people as possible with his message because it's important?

This isn't student union politics where ideological purity trumps everything else. I'm not sure any political party gets by on that when confronted with the reality of actually governing. Look at Syriza in Greece. They were like Dave's wet dream when campaigning but had to back peddle enormously when actually in government. That's why Wilders doesn't want to actually be in government because he would almost certainly have to row back on his vile rhetoric.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
I forgot we'd entered a world where only certain kinds of people get to vote rather than every Tom, [Poor language removed], and Harry in the country. It's perhaps also worth noting, and something I'm sure many here complained about when the Tories did the opposite after Brexit, but a government exists to govern for the entire country, not just those who are its most fervent supporters, or indeed those who vote for them.

I can't fathom it. The likes of the rag and GBNews are excuses for news outlets, but during the pandemic would we expect Chris Whitty to not give interviews to those publications because he thinks they stink, or would we expect him to reach as many people as possible with his message because it's important?

This isn't student union politics where ideological purity trumps everything else. I'm not sure any political party gets by on that when confronted with the reality of actually governing. Look at Syriza in Greece. They were like Dave's wet dream when campaigning but had to back peddle enormously when actually in government. That's why Wilders doesn't want to actually be in government because he would almost certainly have to row back on his vile rhetoric.
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Far too sensible Bruce.

Can we go back to nane calling and tribalism please?

Bloody scab etc.
 
Daveysgingerlovechild said:
Far too sensible Bruce.

Can we go back to nane calling and tribalism please?

Bloody scab etc.
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Don't get me wrong, I would love our politicians to take an evidence-based approach to their work and pull the electorate to them based on that logic and evidence, but I'm realistic enough to know that this is never going to happen, whether due to the lack of time people devote to political matters, their general ignorance of matters, or the poor job the media does in communicating. That leaves the somewhat unappetising prospect of politicians instead having to go to the electorate on various issues based on where the electorate already is because the votes of the ignorant count just as much as the votes of the informed.
 
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