#gortonanddenton #GreenTransition The Telegraph’s taking this well …. 🥳

[apenkop@mstdn.social]

@Geri In that case, our Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf is a copy paste of The Telegraph, with some find replace stuff about names and currency.

[geri@mastodon.online]

@apenkop I must remember never to buy it xx

[black_flag@beige.party]

@davetortoise @Geri

I am seeing a lot of people expressing hopeful thoughts today but I am afraid I am far too realistic to swallow it. "Power concedes nothing without a demand." To the powerful The Greens are just one more upstart to be squashed. And you must remember that this was a Labour constituency anyway. Green was a safe protest vote.

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@apenkop

Let's hope a progressive wave of politics can roll back neoliberalism across Europe.

Trump is an unwitting accomplice in this currently.

@Black_Flag @Geri

[apenkop@mstdn.social]

@ReggieHere @Black_Flag @Geri
I really think that the Dutch politicians at the time thought: "We don't exactly know what it extends to, but if USA and UK do it, it is probably good (for the rich and powerful)".

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@apenkop

I'm sure there was a certain amount of foreign influence too.

Building consensus between countries is important in establishing new ways of working, and that's no less true for the progressives seeking to reverse neoliberalism than it was for those who imposed it in the first place.

@Black_Flag @Geri

[brad@1040ste.net]

@Geri @JimmyB Worse - some are *vegans* AND they don't like broom-brooms!

The fact that a woman is a plumber - and a newly-minted plasterer, to boot - no doubt detonated both braincells in a lot of these arseholes

[apenkop@mstdn.social]

@ReggieHere Yeah, but I wasn't being truly serious. I suspect politicians to think and act like adolescents, thinking they are smart and know it all, but they ain't seen nothing yet. I am highly cynical towards politicians.
@Black_Flag @Geri

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@apenkop

Yes, and agreed.

@Black_Flag @Geri

[amro@todon.nl]

@Broadfork @Geri @JimmyB Our torches are lit with biofuel

[broadfork@mastodon.green]

@amro @Geri @JimmyB My torches are LED’s

[nicovel0@mastodon.social]

@AngleseyStick @Geri I cackled in public

[darkerknight@climatejustice.social]

@Geri

OK they mean the abyss of happiness, truth, open politics, ecological reality, community etc etc ......

Aaawww poor little fascists.

[amro@todon.nl]

@Broadfork @Geri @JimmyB

[jimmyb@mas.to]

@Broadfork

The handle of my pitchfork was hand carved from a foraged, fallen branch

@Geri

[darkerknight@climatejustice.social]

@Geri

Question:

Harmer Starmer:
Was he inserted into Labour to F''k it from the inside?

Doing a good job if so!

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@Geri Well, a line like that in the Telegraph means you must be doing something right!
Or... what a pack of w*nkers as usual.

[asprinkleofsage@mastodon.social]

@Geri oop another one

[steveclough@metalhead.club]

@Geri So the Greens - who are basically socialist in essence (although more than that) are labeled extremist, but Reform, who are fascist, are not.

[witewulf@cyberplace.social]

@Geri @mothninja yeah, +1 for correct use of an apostrophe of possession with a multiple subject, though. Fascist as fuck, but good spelling and grammar.

Actual SPAG Nazis