Going to the UK polls today?
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@robertklaschka @sinabhfuil @pluralistic what is really striking is that I'm seeing far more anti-Labour than anti-far right posts on this platform
@mkoek @robertklaschka @pluralistic In UK, Labour are being very rightish
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@condret @pluralistic Irish Greens are leftish and humane - see @Feljin @JanetPHorner @raycunningham
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Not sure about your locale, but in Cambridge (where the council has flipped between Labour and Lib Dem repeatedly) is not positive. The main thing that the Lib Dems do is blame Labour for things (and vice versa). Both parties are far more concerned with playing the blame game than actually improving things.
They managed to reach consensus with Labour on introducing a congestion charge (which would have improved air quality and public safety), and then chickened out at the last minute and blamed the thing that they'd been supporting for the previous two years on Labour.
Oh, and they put a thing through my door using two-year-old polling data to try to justify why they're the party most likely to beat Labour.
So, yeah, not going to trust those guys.
@david_chisnall @pluralistic I'm sympathetic with all of that. My point was that I see a lot of rhetoric on here, and from the Greens claiming to offer a different more honest type of politics. The reality is that when they are trying to gain a seat locally they have defaulted to exactly the behaviour you are talking about.
The sad thing here is that locally the LDs and Greens were working together, because they were aligned on policy. That's gone now here because the trust is gone.
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@david_chisnall @pluralistic I'm sympathetic with all of that. My point was that I see a lot of rhetoric on here, and from the Greens claiming to offer a different more honest type of politics. The reality is that when they are trying to gain a seat locally they have defaulted to exactly the behaviour you are talking about.
The sad thing here is that locally the LDs and Greens were working together, because they were aligned on policy. That's gone now here because the trust is gone.
So far, every party has put a piece of paper containing slightly misleading polling data through my door. The Green Party was the only one where the polls were ones that did not make them look more popular than they are.
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