jabjoe
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- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 5 days ago:
FPTP is the simplest and least representative. Worth reading about different systems out there.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 6 days ago:
More often it is Conservatives, also on about a third of the vote, and that has deeply broken the country, but I take your point.
I’d like score/rank voting based mixed member.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
Electoral college isn’t ideal, but the two party system is worse. It’s just red vs blue. My team vs your team. It’s false. Far better as in much of Europe, a sea of parties, coming and going, constantly compromising. That’s a better reflection of real politics.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
Yep. Compounding it, the far right throw in trolling social media that there is no point voting. That those opposing the far right are just as bad in some way. That there is no less bad option to vote, so don’t bother.
Frankly, I blame those who didn’t vote Harris or Clinton almost as those voted Trump. Hold your nose and vote less bad, AND push for a better system. The UK’s FPTP is deeply broken, but it’s dysfunction is nothing compared with the US’s duopoly.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
It didn’t work of the Democrats either. It should of because how awful Trump is and Kamala seamed good, but how good she would be wasn’t the focus. But their system is even worse than ours.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree. I think FPTP is immoral and a liability. I’m disappointed in Labour to looking to address it despite their membership overwhelmingly supporting it. They hope to pay on “it is us, or Reform” which is party before country and could backfire and massively damage the country.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
What’s great about those numbers is Con+Reform is soooo far behind Lab+Lib+Greens.
The margin the Greens won by is so big that even if was more split with Labour, Reform still wouldn’t have one. Which will horrify Labour as people won’t fear vote splitting as much.
It’s one small bi-election, but I like what it says about the Overton window.
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 5 weeks ago:
Reform is a pro-Russia party with members jailed for Russian corruption. Farage is just good at it and not been caught.
Reform would give MAGA the UK. Traitors. Reform is full of Brexit people when Brexit massively damanaged the country. Traitors. Reform would privative the NHS screwing over all the but the rich. Traitors.
Magnet to the worse of the Tories.
Let alone the blatant racism and intolerance of any diversity. I refuse to tolerant their intolerance. It must be challenged or we’ll end sinking into a hell hole like the US has (and is still descending further).
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 5 weeks ago:
Their leader is a Putin man.
www.facebook.com/ledbydonkeys/…/887348060902269/
(Sorry this Led By Dockers video seams to only be on Facebook and Instagram)
- Comment on BBC to review 'Bias' in Climate Change reporting 3 months ago:
GB “News” is a blight on the media landscape. Calling itself “News” but says it is just “entertainment” so doesn’t have to follow news standards. That needs to drop them in a world of trouble. They need to be made an example of so we don’t get more of that.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I’ll never hear, or read, that phase the same again!
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Makes me think of Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. 😀
- Comment on ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners 4 months ago:
And the politically sane should be pushing back hard. If you can legally have misinformation labelled “news” we have a massive problem.
- Comment on ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners 4 months ago:
It’s very simple. You can not call yourself “news” and not come under news regulations.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins 4 months ago:
Scale is everything here. That the problem.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 6 months ago:
To be fair, those selling AI spades make money from this AI gold rush.
- Comment on The UK must introduce Gaza Family Visa as it did for Ukraine 6 months ago:
I agree we should be trying stop the ethnic cleansing Israel is doing. But I do think we should be catching those who want to take refuge here due to connections here. Also, Britain did create the Israel/Palestine mess.
I can’t speak to want Arab countries are doing or not doing. It seams they are interesting in maintaining good relations with Israel more.
- Comment on The UK must introduce Gaza Family Visa as it did for Ukraine 6 months ago:
While I’d like to see this, in our rising fascist anti-immigrant political climate, where even the BBC mix up migrant and refugee, it seams unlikely. These are brown Muslims compare with white Christian of Ukraine. Despite attempts to make it illegal, there is a lot of pro-Palestine support, but I don’t think that will translate to a lot of support to bring them here. It should, but won’t. Britain is losing it’s soul.
- Comment on Frances Ryan: Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why 6 months ago:
Private health companies often use the same facilities and stuff as public health. It ends up basically paying to jump the queue. Also the private health companies take the low risk, glamorous stuff and leave the complex, high risk, unglamorous stuff to public health.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 6 months ago:
Classic podcast on why printers are terrible. Planet Money with none other that digital freedom fighter and SciFi author, Cory Doctorow.
- Comment on Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 6 months ago:
Being that post war Britain has defined itself as Britain’s greatest hour was defeating the Nazis, this isn’t a wise thing to say.
This is a weak point of the British Far Right. They can’t wrap themselves up in the Union Jack and claim to honour Churchill, while actually being Nazis. It’s a weakness of us those opposed to the far right need to be pointing to a lot more.
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 6 months ago:
Have used it actually, but it’s not as good. Also we know some dairy farming families and they aren’t torturing their herd. Though you are right, I don’t really care about the fate of them. As long as their isn’t real sadistic cruelty. In that instance, I worry more about what it says about the people.
I’m far more interested in the environmental impact. I can’t seam to digest meat substitutes (even when they are meant to be coeliac safe). We make a point of restraining our beef consumption due to the environmental impact, as it’s the worse meat impact wise. I’d jump on lab meat and milk.
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 6 months ago:
You need people to choose it. Pricing dairy and meat away from the masses makes it a social inequality thing. I don’t think that is the answer anyone wants. It can’t be a hair shirt thing. (Though if history is to go by, there will be affordable meat from somewhere, legal or not.)
It has got to be a better option thing. Like EVs vs ICE. Climate and pollution advantages are nice, but it’s 10x running cost difference that sells EVs. It has to be a jam today option.
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 6 months ago:
Agreed, but the problem is butter is really nice. We something as good, or better, that doesn’t use so much land and water create so much CO2 (well CO2e).
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 6 months ago:
Solution for butter at least : cbsnews.com/…/butter-carbon-bill-gates-batavia-il…
- Comment on China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network 6 months ago:
The north wasn’t set to join up the Northern cities. Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, New Castle all needs better connection. Going by rail East/West is terrible. Birmingham to London wasn’t even going to be much faster.
- Comment on China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network 6 months ago:
Not sure if you mean in the UK, but in the UK, I think it is hard. We had the politically lead Beeching cuts that messed up what we had. Then those lines had homes and shops built on them. So there a numerous places in the UK cut off from rail that are hard to reconnect without causing a lot of upset. Building new lines is very hard, see HS2 debacle. However, HS2 should have been focused on join up the north, not linking it to London. Also, there is a lot of improvement possible on existing lines. Though won’t get us to bullet trains.
- Comment on China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network 6 months ago:
The car is king is the problem. Which is dumb. Also, in densely populated Europe at least, with private property right, and hundreds, if not thousands, of years of legacy, environmental regulations, it’s hard to build train lines and stations. Also, the rich own so much of the country’s wealth and power, and they just fly, so don’t care.
- Comment on ‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head 6 months ago:
Authoritarian governments need to be pointed and condemned. Make it clear this not the way to go, to own governments as much as anything.
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 6 months ago:
They call themselves news but don’t follow the rules of TV news, you know, be balanced and truthful, because they say they are entertainment. The whole point of a license is to stop that kind thing. It should been long gone.