@dolmengi Wow, that looks good!

@trebach She seems (so far) to be a good 'un!

@phf Taxing the rich is on their current agenda...

@BashStKid And all three groups went to the same schools.
Luckily, the Greens fall outside that "chummy" parameter and are less likely to be swayed.

@petealexharris @EF

@phf IMO, his platform may well push the Overton Window leftwards again.

@melgu

@phf The Scottish Greens went into a kind of coalition with the Scottish National Party (centre left, social dem) during a minority gov't situation, and really used the leverage that gave them to push the edges of where the SNP would normally go. So now we have country-wide free bus travel for people 22 and under, rent controls and a few other good things that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
They walk the walk, they don't just talk the talk.

@petealexharris And then the Conservatives followed weirdo Dom Cummings' "innovative" advice and sacked most of the civil service. Like an early version of DOGE.

@Tattie @EF

@melgu The Labour Party in the UK has been right-of-centre since Tony Blair and is currently further right than the Conservatives.

Labels mean nothing anymore - perhaps they never have.

My favourite example is the Liberal Party in Canada, who are social democrats, socially liberal but fiscally clear in the centre - compared to the Liberal Party in Australia, who are a bunch of raging right-wing maniacs.

@phf

@Sfwmson The hippies got usurped by the disco/yuppie culture. That's really the time point when every normal person started getting poorer as money was funnelled upwards.

@grammasaurus @OhWeh

@Sfwmson The culture segment in the US that has historically, and also now, made statements about the grind Polanski is detailing has been musicians. Of all colours. An unfortunate aspect of the American mind, however, is to see being 'down and out' as something temporary, missing that it is in fact a feature of the economic and social structures of that country.

@OhWeh

@steely_glint My apologies. Sometimes one gets lost in the threads! @darkpixel

@steely_glint So is Zelensky. What's your point?

@darkpixel

@fnberger They always have been democratic socialists.

@proscience He was around before Mamdani came on the scene, and he is merely saying what the vast majority of people in the UK are thinking right now.
If the English have any sense, they will vote Green in masses next time. All the other English parties are corrupt.
We are lucky in Scotland, because we have the SNP (who form the government) and the Scottish Greens (who support them).

@holger Ohhh, thank you! I couldn't figure out if one could add an alt text to a video, so this was very helpful.

@EF The Greens are not puppets.

Quite a phenomenal campaign ad from the Greens down in England. Strong. I firmly believe that any political party not running this same message will fail.

@schoedland My landlord might not be too happy about me digging in the floor, haha

@CiaraNi

@LordWoolamaloo Good idea. I'll try that next year

@CiaraNi

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