The other thing I worry about is if they displace the Labour party as the main centre left force in the country, that would be regressive, in that the organised working class would no longer have any political power at all and the centre left would be represented by the petit bourgeoisie, essentially without a workers’ voice.

Absolutely. Actually I think this is the same old problem - like it or not, the working class is mostly opposed to mass migration, so they’ll be voting restore and reform. Precisely the same thing that kept Tories in power for 15 years from 2010-2025.

I don’t blame the greens and labour for not thinking in 4D chess terms but here we are, back where we started.

Labour’s traditional union backing seems to have split funding between labour and greens now, which is a mistake on their part because The Green Party seems to have nobody with economic literacy in it.

Totally agree, and i think thst second paragraph puts it perfectly.

If I’m being generous, I know them to have blocked:

• solar power generation
• Nuclear power generation
• HS2, They’ve blocked it hard
• Pylons in suffolk which I just learned about

So at the most generous way of looking at it, that’s only 4 things, but 2 of those - HS2 and Nuclear power - are incredibly important and could completely elevate the environmental performance of our nation.

Solar power? Sure I could argue that the land is better uaed for wildlife and farming, and I usually would do so - but they usually wouldn’t. Absolutely no enforcement of a party policy, which means any nation-wide leadershio will lack directikn and see the ciuntry stagnate or flounder under the weight of 100s of harebrained schemes which act against one another; for every city building a new green energy plant, another city will be tearing one down to build - well, their priorities don’t seem to be the environmetpnt at all right now, so i guess it would be refugee housing or something, which could go anywhere else.

I’m also worried that if the Green party were to take control, anywhere, and didn’t set out to cut any public projects, they would simply de-rail them by running out of budget on other stuff. The list of useless things they want to spend taxpayer money on seems to be endless - yet I don’t see things which will actually improve the wealth of the country, which is what we need right now to fund sweeping changes to the environment, production and public transport.

Famously they’ve been very successful where come from - Sheffield - but have absolutely nothing to put to their name following a long-reigning green party mayor of the city … other than some postulating and participstion in reality shows.

(Actually i would credit the green party’s success here with the delay to Sheffield getting an improved metro system, which is now only going ahead under a labour-led Combined authority for the entire county.)

Also their current leader is the worst one they’ve ever had. Yes he stands up to israel, but he’s cruel and nasty like a cult leader.

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What i find remarkable is jow far she can reach her arm backwards. What does that body do, lady??

No, “poverty is the root cause of all crime” is ridiculous distriaction bullshit. There was child grooming in the soviet union. Being poor doesn’t make you do bad things and saying that is a massive discredit to the tens of millions of poor people in this country that do their best every single day. Horrible narrative.

Even though I use “the big light” as a phrase i still think this means the sun every time i see it.

Reddit: run by bots, for bot users.

Hope it goes exactly where it’s headed, a zero percent human userbase.

Rarely is a writer blessed enough to be asked to write and publish the same story on 3 different occasions

Bullets & Blockbusters: “The Original Plans for The Phantom Menace” (YT video)

This plan they originally had would be way more rewatchable and aligned - thematically, stylistically and narrative-wise - with what we got in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, both of which I think are more acceptable prequels to A New Hope.

Honestly my favourite thing about star wars is how they treat the canvas of the galaxy as a contained landmass, like it’s some medieval fantasy story. Would like to see more fiction that does this.

Also - thanks for a detailed critique of the prequels. It’s kind of sad how easy it would’ve been for the creators to avoid this plot logic hole, AND you can’t even hand wave it away with “hyperspace lanes” because the map shows that tatooine is not the most direct stop. I also compared your map with an older one (reddit link) to try and figure out if it was just a case of inconsistency from legends-prequels-disney era, and lo and behold the position of star systems is completely consistent.

Wait. So there’s an original thrawn trilogy and then disney decided to just write their own one instead of implementing it into canon?

UK’s hidden shame is widespread child sexual abuse, the poverty is just “meh” in comparison

Me when i experiment with sleep and spend 6 hours awake in between my bi-phasal sleep schedule. (Don’t experiment with your sleep)

I didn’t learn that people are supposed to be nice to you and have fun with you until adulthood

Yep I had that as well, most shocking thing i experienced in my life was how nicely people treated me at university rather than at home. Things got worse again when i changed to a different uni.

I honestly think autistic people are either A) more likely to notice all facets of and attempts at bullying, or B) note paying any sttention to the bullies at all. Never is it a case of perceiving it worse than it actuslly is. Also, particularly cruel for a NT to tell an autistic person that, because they have no idea how badly bullied ND people are.

Yeah, that’s the only time where it feels fulfilling actually 🤣

So kind of our employers to find a comfy well-lit office buikding for us to scroll through memes on, while we actually buckle down to work on the last 2 days of the week, eorkkmg from home.

Repeat after me: no checking phone screen until out of bed

Ooo this comic makes me feel good

I think I’m a narcophiliac. My romantic partners keep on busting me for dealing drugs.

Some loving sexual humans will want to prove the sign wrong though, and educate him in their ways.