| Polanski on 18:25 - May 1 with 2757 views | bartyg |
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| Polanski on 18:28 - May 1 with 2740 views | noggin |
Me (given the alternatives) |  |
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| Polanski on 18:39 - May 1 with 2673 views | BluePG |
For anyone saying “Yes”, can I ask why? |  |
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| Polanski on 18:41 - May 1 with 2652 views | NthQldITFC |
Me too. |  |
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| Polanski on 18:41 - May 1 with 2653 views | StokieBlue |
You mean for someone who apologises for his actions?
Plenty voted for Boris who refused to apologise for his actions. Plenty want to vote for Nige who is almost constantly being referred to the ethics committee and took 5m from a crypto baron who is going to want something for it at some point.
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| Polanski on 18:45 - May 1 with 2626 views | NthQldITFC |
| Polanski on 18:39 - May 1 by BluePG |
For anyone saying “Yes”, can I ask why? |
Environmental and social responsibility would be the simplest way to summarise the reasons.
A care for people, a care for the future.
Repulsion with a thermodynamically ridiculous and illogically expanding capitalist system which spells the end for much of nature and much of humanity.
That's almost too blindingly obvious.
Decency.
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| Polanski on 18:45 - May 1 with 2628 views | StokieBlue |
| Polanski on 18:39 - May 1 by BluePG |
For anyone saying “Yes”, can I ask why? |
I would guess because they agree with the policies of the Green party?
This isn't a presidential system although many treat it that way. You're voting for the policies in the end rather than the person who can be gone very quickly as we've seen.
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| Polanski on 18:46 - May 1 with 2603 views | BlueSmoke |
He made a massive boob, not for the first time. |  | | |
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| Polanski on 18:47 - May 1 with 2573 views | MattinLondon |
| Polanski on 18:39 - May 1 by BluePG |
For anyone saying “Yes”, can I ask why? |
Basically, I like their policies. |  | | |
| Polanski on 18:48 - May 1 with 2568 views | bartyg |
| Polanski on 18:46 - May 1 by BlueSmoke |
He made a massive boob, not for the first time. |
If you're asking me to pick between that and Nigel "the nazis were right" Farage I'm afraid it's not close | |
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| Polanski on 18:49 - May 1 with 2529 views | J2BLUE |
Seems to be forming an alliance with Gary Stevenson.
Could be something to watch if it takes off. |  |
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| Polanski on 18:58 - May 1 with 2461 views | gtsb1966 |
| Polanski on 18:41 - May 1 by StokieBlue |
You mean for someone who apologises for his actions?
Plenty voted for Boris who refused to apologise for his actions. Plenty want to vote for Nige who is almost constantly being referred to the ethics committee and took 5m from a crypto baron who is going to want something for it at some point.
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He only apologised because he backed something stupid and realised the British public back the police actions in this case. As for Nige...he's a ****. Next. |  | | |
| Polanski on 19:00 - May 1 with 2455 views | gtsb1966 |
| Polanski on 18:48 - May 1 by bartyg |
If you're asking me to pick between that and Nigel "the nazis were right" Farage I'm afraid it's not close |
Nobody is though. | | | |
| Polanski on 19:01 - May 1 with 2444 views | lazyblue |
Unfortunately the youth of today probably would , that would be a car crash of epic proportions. | | | |
| Polanski on 19:03 - May 1 with 2430 views | StokieBlue |
| Polanski on 18:58 - May 1 by gtsb1966 |
He only apologised because he backed something stupid and realised the British public back the police actions in this case. As for Nige...he's a ****. Next. |
Rather unnecessarily aggressive response there.
All I did was surmise why people might vote for him which was your question.
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| Polanski on 19:06 - May 1 with 2407 views | StokieBlue |
| Polanski on 19:01 - May 1 by lazyblue |
Unfortunately the youth of today probably would , that would be a car crash of epic proportions. |
Maybe the "youth of today" have had enough of the status-quo parties and who could blame them after Brexit, the farce that was the Tories and now Labour-lite.
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| Polanski on 19:08 - May 1 with 2396 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Polanski on 18:58 - May 1 by gtsb1966 |
He only apologised because he backed something stupid and realised the British public back the police actions in this case. As for Nige...he's a ****. Next. |
Interesting take. Unlike certain others I could mention, he did it instantly and in a way which was actually taking responsibility and apologetic. | |
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| Polanski on 19:10 - May 1 with 2363 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Polanski on 18:39 - May 1 by BluePG |
For anyone saying “Yes”, can I ask why? |
He’s the only leader who acknowledges the current financial model adopted by all western nations is failing us and leading to greater inequality. So he represents the only real case for change. He’s an advocate of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)*, so the polar opposite of Chancellors like Osborne and Reeves with their austerity and fiscal rules that have retarded growth and hammered public services resulting in shed loads of bad stuff we complain about all the time (from bin collections, to lack of school funding, NHS waiting lists, no access to GPs/dentists, potholes, etc.).
He does need to get a handle on the antisemitism cases within his party though, as that could sink him just as he’s getting started. He’s also got to translate the relatively easy populist language and left-leaning economic arguments (e.g. nationalisation) he uses into something acceptable to the mainstream. Despite the fact that privatisation and the current economic model has failed most of us (unless you’re a multi-millionaire/billionaire) I doubt the public are ready, even though it’s perfectly normal in other European countries who have better services.
*MMT does accurately describe how money is created and removed through taxation, but whether the institutions of the financial system are ready to acknowledge that and change is another matter entirely. |  |
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| Polanski on 19:18 - May 1 with 2294 views | bartyg |
| Polanski on 19:00 - May 1 by gtsb1966 |
Nobody is though. |
You're right, I could choose one of the three status quo parties fighting to be the most "electable" | |
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| Polanski on 19:21 - May 1 with 2266 views | DarkBrandon |
| Polanski on 18:47 - May 1 by MattinLondon |
Basically, I like their policies. |
Subsidies of fossil fuels to the consumer at vast expense, with the effect of increasing demand during a supply crisis, and causing likely food shortages in the developing world?
Those policies? |  | | |
| Polanski on 19:22 - May 1 with 2265 views | DJR |
These are council elections, so one is voting for the local candidate and the local council.
As it is, I voted Green at the last general election and in last year's council elections, in part because I know those involved with the Green Party well, in part because of disillusionment with Labour and in part because where I live it has in recent years usurped Labour as the main left wing opposition to the Tories.
I might add that I voted for its predecessor, the Ecology Party, in 1980 in Leeds when it appeared from the ballot paper that there was no Labour candidate.
I don't, however, see a scenario in which the Greens ever get more than 20% of the vote nationally, which means that they would be likely to win seats mainly in urban areas, and thus be unlikely ever to win much more than 40 or 50 MPa. [Post edited 1 May 19:40]
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| Polanski on 19:24 - May 1 with 2240 views | homer_123 |
| Polanski on 18:39 - May 1 by BluePG |
For anyone saying “Yes”, can I ask why? |
I side much more with the Green's policies than that of any other party. |  |
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| Polanski on 19:25 - May 1 with 2230 views | homer_123 |
| Polanski on 19:01 - May 1 by lazyblue |
Unfortunately the youth of today probably would , that would be a car crash of epic proportions. |
Compared with? | |
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| Polanski on 19:32 - May 1 with 2168 views | homer_123 |
| Polanski on 19:21 - May 1 by DarkBrandon |
Subsidies of fossil fuels to the consumer at vast expense, with the effect of increasing demand during a supply crisis, and causing likely food shortages in the developing world?
Those policies? |
Show me a party that appeals to every voters or where a policy doesn't negativly impact a cohort of the population. | |
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