| Polanski on 13:13 - May 2 with 926 views | brazil1982 |
| Polanski on 09:13 - May 2 by GlasgowBlue |
Deary me Stokie. I was answering somebody who was claiming the Conservative vote was extinct. So I linked the latest YouGuv poll showing the Tories in second to reform and ahead of Labour and the Greens.
You seem pretty desperate to find fault in anything I post lately. |
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| Polanski on 17:17 - May 2 with 839 views | Herbivore |
| Polanski on 11:14 - May 2 by ipswichtown1982 |
Are you of the opinion that this current government is not economically very left wing? Could you possibly mean that are not left wing enough by the use of the term “Labour lite”? |
You think the current govt is economically "very left wing"? Sweet, I'll look forward to their forced seizure of assets from the ultra rich and them nationalising all of the key industries with the proceeds. Or maybe you're talking shit,.lad. [Post edited 2 May 17:18]
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| Polanski on 18:27 - May 2 with 790 views | BigManBlue |
I’m not an economist, but seeing him on The Rest os Politics suggesting the government doesn’t pay back debt didn’t fill me with hope. Wouldn’t this just be the bond markets running, like they did for Truss, but on steroids?
As a broader point it seems they are fundamentally split between rural, “traditional” greens who are more concerned about countryside stewardship and urban Corbynite-like voters who are more interested in the party’s stance on Palestine, and they would run into the same problems as Labour in keeping that kind of fundamentally opposed coalition together.
Personally I’m lucky to have a good local candidate who’s my existing county councillor, but in a general election god only knows who’d get my vote. |  |
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| Polanski on 20:46 - May 2 with 725 views | DJR |
| Polanski on 18:27 - May 2 by BigManBlue |
I’m not an economist, but seeing him on The Rest os Politics suggesting the government doesn’t pay back debt didn’t fill me with hope. Wouldn’t this just be the bond markets running, like they did for Truss, but on steroids?
As a broader point it seems they are fundamentally split between rural, “traditional” greens who are more concerned about countryside stewardship and urban Corbynite-like voters who are more interested in the party’s stance on Palestine, and they would run into the same problems as Labour in keeping that kind of fundamentally opposed coalition together.
Personally I’m lucky to have a good local candidate who’s my existing county councillor, but in a general election god only knows who’d get my vote. |
Traditional Greens tend to live in cities like Brighton, Bristol and Norwich. Admittedly they won a seat in Suffolk but I always thought that was slightly puzzling. And certainly in the large rural part of the constituency I live in the Greens are nowhere but they dominate the one large town. [Post edited 2 May 21:04]
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| Polanski on 00:19 - May 3 with 660 views | reusersfreekicks |
| Polanski on 11:43 - May 2 by ipswichtown1982 |
The continual increases minimum wage is absolutely killing small businesses, esp in hospitality. And that was FOR ALL AGES… All of those policies in my opinion are “nuts” |
Increasing funding for the NHS is nuts eh?
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| Polanski on 07:13 - May 3 with 582 views | urbanpenguin |
| Polanski on 09:16 - May 2 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
I did have a chuckle when the Greens proposed more money for dentistry…can’t imagine where that idea came from…
My take he’s another non serious politician with simple answers to complex issues. The fact he didn’t know the windfall tax is still in place suggests he’s not one for details. Aiming for 100pc renewables whilst banning nuclear power is similarly daft. It’s not possible to build enough energy storage for renewables without huge investment and losing swathes of greenfield land (not a very green policy). Therefore we’d be reliant on the continental grid when renewables aren’t providing our full need, which would mean price fluctuations.
Nuclear has to be the base load if we want clean power, France has shown the value of it, with some of the cheapest energy prices in the West, and avoiding the horrendous inflation driven by Ukraine/Middle East.
That said he seems to have a similarly naive view of geopolitics like Corbyn, and defence - at a time when Europe is needing to defend its borders, rearm, and support a democratic ally. For that reason I’m out. I’d say I’m probably at the vote independent candidates right now, Starmer has veered well away from his manifesto (locking up protesters, compulsory ID, and the feeling he’s generally making it up as he goes along). [Post edited 2 May 9:40]
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But a leader of a party isn't the person that creates the rules, this isn't a presidency. This is particularly the case with the Greens, where positions and political opinions come through a slow but genuinely meaningful process within the membership, not just from what Polanski or whoever says. [Post edited 3 May 9:30]
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| Polanski on 09:26 - May 3 with 516 views | GlasgowBlue |
He’s just made an absolutely outrageous statement on Sky News. When he was challenged about playing down the antisemitism in the recent stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green he said that a Muslim man was also stabbed prior to the Golders Green attack.
That is pure deflection and disingenuous by Polanski. The Muslim man wasn’t attacked by another Muslim man because he was a Muslim. He attempted to stab his friend. He then intentionally travelled, around 8 miles, to Golders Green to stab Jews because they were Jews.
Even Mick Lynch accused him of prevaricating. [Post edited 3 May 9:37]
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| Polanski on 10:40 - May 3 with 444 views | DJR |
I think there is a danger when examining Green policies in assuming that they would ever be the main or only party in government.
They have always been a left wing and environmental party, and whilst polling poorly, like at the last election, they could promise the earth.
With polling much better, they may well have to refine policies but the main aim of a party like the Greens (under PR or even under first past the post with the votes split as it is) is surely to influence the policies of the main party in government in a coalition and maybe get one or two of their policies enacted.
For what it is worth, I am not convinced that the term populist is an appropriate one for a party with left wing policies, given that policies like nationalisation formed part of the post-war consensus. And certainly left wing policies since 1979 haven't been populist in the sense of winning elections, and green policies aren't now. But if one assumes the Greens are populist, and the following thesis does, it seems that the Greens haven't really changed in this sense since the 1970s.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/medi
Abstract
In 2024, the Green Party of England and Wales achieved their greatest ever success in
a United Kingdom general election, prompting renewed media commentary regarding
the party’s potential populist elements. Despite populism being a political buzzword in
recent years, the Green Party’s engagement with populism has been overlooked by
academia. Indeed, a prevailing assumption exists that green and populist are mutually
exclusive labels. Given this, as well as misuse of populism, as a concept, in the media,
rigorous academic analysis is needed to determine whether the Greens have populist
elements. This study operationalizes the ideational approach to populism, using four
themes - people centrism, popular sovereignty, anti-elitism, and proclaiming crisis - to
test for populist elements in the Green Party. Texts, including speeches, manifestos, and
party publications, from 1973 to the present day are analysed using qualitative content
analysis and organised into the four themes. The study finds that the Green Party has
consistently articulated each theme throughout their history. Furthermore, a populist
Manichean worldview (the people versus the elites) is present throughout. Overall, the
evidence suggests that populism is hard-wired into the Green Party’s DNA, [Post edited 3 May 11:14]
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| Polanski on 12:10 - May 3 with 348 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Polanski on 10:40 - May 3 by DJR |
I think there is a danger when examining Green policies in assuming that they would ever be the main or only party in government.
They have always been a left wing and environmental party, and whilst polling poorly, like at the last election, they could promise the earth.
With polling much better, they may well have to refine policies but the main aim of a party like the Greens (under PR or even under first past the post with the votes split as it is) is surely to influence the policies of the main party in government in a coalition and maybe get one or two of their policies enacted.
For what it is worth, I am not convinced that the term populist is an appropriate one for a party with left wing policies, given that policies like nationalisation formed part of the post-war consensus. And certainly left wing policies since 1979 haven't been populist in the sense of winning elections, and green policies aren't now. But if one assumes the Greens are populist, and the following thesis does, it seems that the Greens haven't really changed in this sense since the 1970s.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/medi
Abstract
In 2024, the Green Party of England and Wales achieved their greatest ever success in
a United Kingdom general election, prompting renewed media commentary regarding
the party’s potential populist elements. Despite populism being a political buzzword in
recent years, the Green Party’s engagement with populism has been overlooked by
academia. Indeed, a prevailing assumption exists that green and populist are mutually
exclusive labels. Given this, as well as misuse of populism, as a concept, in the media,
rigorous academic analysis is needed to determine whether the Greens have populist
elements. This study operationalizes the ideational approach to populism, using four
themes - people centrism, popular sovereignty, anti-elitism, and proclaiming crisis - to
test for populist elements in the Green Party. Texts, including speeches, manifestos, and
party publications, from 1973 to the present day are analysed using qualitative content
analysis and organised into the four themes. The study finds that the Green Party has
consistently articulated each theme throughout their history. Furthermore, a populist
Manichean worldview (the people versus the elites) is present throughout. Overall, the
evidence suggests that populism is hard-wired into the Green Party’s DNA, [Post edited 3 May 11:14]
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I may have posted this before, but it's an an interesting fact that the Green Party and Reform both exist because of the Goldsmith brothers, Edward and James. [Post edited 3 May 12:28]
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| Polanski on 12:48 - May 3 with 266 views | GlasgowBlue |
As I posted earlier, he was an absolute car crash on Sky News earlier. | |
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| Polanski on 13:04 - May 3 with 238 views | pointofblue |
| Polanski on 12:08 - May 2 by redrickstuhaart |
No its not.
And if it is, then the business is not viable, because a business should be paying enough for full time employees to survive on rather than enjoying profit at tax payers' expense. |
The increase is certainly killing care. Before it increased to the extent it has, care was seen as a viable option in terms of both pay and progression. Now, people are paid as much for working in a supermarket. If you had a choice between the two wouldn't you choose the one with less expectation and pressure? There isn't really enough money to increase wages across the board in care either. |  |
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| Polanski on 13:07 - May 3 with 232 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Polanski on 13:04 - May 3 by pointofblue |
The increase is certainly killing care. Before it increased to the extent it has, care was seen as a viable option in terms of both pay and progression. Now, people are paid as much for working in a supermarket. If you had a choice between the two wouldn't you choose the one with less expectation and pressure? There isn't really enough money to increase wages across the board in care either. |
Care is appallingly poorly paid and huge numebrs of carers are on benefits too as a result. | |
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| Polanski on 13:10 - May 3 with 223 views | Mullet |
| Polanski on 12:48 - May 3 by GlasgowBlue |
As I posted earlier, he was an absolute car crash on Sky News earlier. |
I’m sensing your mind is made up, but what did you make of him and Kemi on LK this morning? I thought he came across ok and was clearly being baited by LK to step on a landmine as it were. |  |
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| Polanski on 13:12 - May 3 with 216 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Polanski on 13:10 - May 3 by Mullet |
I’m sensing your mind is made up, but what did you make of him and Kemi on LK this morning? I thought he came across ok and was clearly being baited by LK to step on a landmine as it were. |
I haven't seen LK. I only saw him on Sky and he was very evasive. He was up against Trevor Phillips who is very formidable but I was struck by how critical Mick Lynch was reading his evasiveness. | |
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| Polanski on 13:20 - May 3 with 199 views | Mullet |
| Polanski on 13:12 - May 3 by GlasgowBlue |
I haven't seen LK. I only saw him on Sky and he was very evasive. He was up against Trevor Phillips who is very formidable but I was struck by how critical Mick Lynch was reading his evasiveness. |
He sounded like he’d had some time to reflect and was more than happy to apologise but not say whatever he was being lead to.
I’m not sure he’s the answer but likewise, Starmer has been bitterly disappointing and seems to have damaged the potential he had.
Kemi on the other hand was incredibly disingenuous and dog whistling to the far right. | |
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| Polanski on 13:20 - May 3 with 198 views | Ryorry |
| Polanski on 13:07 - May 3 by redrickstuhaart |
Care is appallingly poorly paid and huge numebrs of carers are on benefits too as a result. |
Private care companies are exploitative though. A friend who worked for one packed it in after a couple of years because, in a rural area, she had to use her own car, was not paid for her travel time between each person visited, and grossly inadequate time was allocated to each person cared for, so they weren’t getting all the care they needed. |  |
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| Polanski on 13:21 - May 3 with 197 views | Swansea_Blue |
I don’t see the problem with holding the police accountable if you think they’ve overstepped the mark. They’ve got to operate within certain parameters. No harm’s done if someone think’s they’ve overstepped their authority and a review then shows they haven’t. Far better that than let them act with impunity.
I don’t understand why this is even an issue. |  |
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| Polanski on 13:45 - May 3 with 152 views | gtsb1966 |
| Polanski on 13:21 - May 3 by Swansea_Blue |
I don’t see the problem with holding the police accountable if you think they’ve overstepped the mark. They’ve got to operate within certain parameters. No harm’s done if someone think’s they’ve overstepped their authority and a review then shows they haven’t. Far better that than let them act with impunity.
I don’t understand why this is even an issue. |
Why did he think they overstepped their authority thats the question. |  | | |
| Polanski on 14:08 - May 3 with 93 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
| Polanski on 12:08 - May 2 by redrickstuhaart |
No its not.
And if it is, then the business is not viable, because a business should be paying enough for full time employees to survive on rather than enjoying profit at tax payers' expense. |
But at the same time, if there are no businesses then there are no jobs - they’ll just be offshored where labour is cheaper. Over 80,000 firms went out of business in the last quarter alone, the general view is that companies are awash with capital but they are just a few multinationals. If people want the lowest paid to earn more, that’s understandable but at the same time most posters are on here bemoaning the cost of things. It’s cheaper to subsidise people’s working wage rather than them being unemployed which is why the policy was implemented in the first place. It would be more sensible to increase the tax free allowance rather than NMW to give people more disposable income (much of which would be recouped through VAT on spending anyway.
We have a choice whereby if we want people to earn more we have to be prepared to fund those through more a more expensive cost of living (e.g much of Scandinavia). You simply can’t have it both ways. How many people here by cheap tat from Amazon rather than local companies. Personally I’d have higher tariffs on Chinese goods, it might also dampen our throwaway culture. | | | |
| Polanski on 14:10 - May 3 with 88 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Polanski on 13:21 - May 3 by Swansea_Blue |
I don’t see the problem with holding the police accountable if you think they’ve overstepped the mark. They’ve got to operate within certain parameters. No harm’s done if someone think’s they’ve overstepped their authority and a review then shows they haven’t. Far better that than let them act with impunity.
I don’t understand why this is even an issue. |
But Polanski doesn't have a clue whether they overstepped the line. He's not qualified to make that judgement.
The attacker had a backpack & had just committed a terrorist act and he was still holding the knife. Officers had no way of knowing whether he had other weapons on his person or explosives in backpack. They only had non-lethal devices which they had already discharged. If I was in the area with my family then I would be grateful to the Police for using whatever mean necessary to disarm somebody who may well have detonated an explosive device. I'm sure you would feel the same if your family were in the vicinity.
Under that situation they were morally and legally entitled to shoot the suspect in the head had they been armed. In any other country he would have been shot before he hit the ground.
Getting fed up with people siding with terrorists over the Police, who put their lives on the line for us every single day. | |
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| Polanski on 14:11 - May 3 with 86 views | gtsb1966 |
| Polanski on 14:10 - May 3 by GlasgowBlue |
But Polanski doesn't have a clue whether they overstepped the line. He's not qualified to make that judgement.
The attacker had a backpack & had just committed a terrorist act and he was still holding the knife. Officers had no way of knowing whether he had other weapons on his person or explosives in backpack. They only had non-lethal devices which they had already discharged. If I was in the area with my family then I would be grateful to the Police for using whatever mean necessary to disarm somebody who may well have detonated an explosive device. I'm sure you would feel the same if your family were in the vicinity.
Under that situation they were morally and legally entitled to shoot the suspect in the head had they been armed. In any other country he would have been shot before he hit the ground.
Getting fed up with people siding with terrorists over the Police, who put their lives on the line for us every single day. |
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| Polanski on 14:12 - May 3 with 84 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Polanski on 13:45 - May 3 by gtsb1966 |
Why did he think they overstepped their authority thats the question. |
Because he's a political chancer who is trying to get as many votes from the type of people who are anti police, anti west and anti Britain. | |
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