Starmer is ignoring the massive demographic of people of all ages who are sick of outdated economic policies wrought by neoliberal, policies that entrench corporate power and governance while the planet burns. #VoteGreen for reinvigorated life affirming socialist policies, managed capitalism, collective sovereignty and people power, a return to egalitarianism, the fair redistribution of GDP between wage and profit share, wealth taxes, and an NHS that is not at the mercy of the asset classes.
This is our new normal. There is barely enough time to reverse the worst effects of #ClimateBreakdown but it will take radical changes to our lifestyles to mitigate #ClimateCollapse.
Those radical changes include switching to cheap and plentiful renewable energy immediately.
Imagine that? Clean air and more money in your pocket. What a shocker.
A triple whammy of Labour backed Conservative failure, you might say…
British decline linked to Brexit, weak leadership and poor finances in damning report
It’s all the more galling that Labour plan to offer absolutely no change whatsover to Conservative ‘business-as-usual’ — so void are they of anything to offer Britain.
Scottish people had high hopes of seriously reducing carbon emissions when the power-sharing Bute House Agreement was agreed with the Scottish Greens, almost three years ago.
The #SNP Government has now said that the 2030 net zero target must be scrapped because of a lack of cooperation from the Westminster Government.
Yet the three areas where the least progress in decarbonisation has been made are all devolved 🤔
“I think what’s the most important thing that I can say is that to LGBT people in our society, the Scottish Government is on their side, we have been on their side, and we will be on their side in the years to come.”
Ah, so that’s why you picked a homophobic rabid TERF as Deputy First Minister is it Swinney?
Boyd said: “I started out six years ago talking about the right to a healthy environment having the capacity to bring about systemic and transformative changes. But this powerful human right is up against an even more powerful force in the global economy, a system that is absolutely based on the exploitation of people and nature. And unless we change that fundamental system, then we’re just re-shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.”
>Boyd said: “There’s no place in the climate negotiations for fossil-fuel companies. There is no place in the plastic negotiations for plastic manufacturers. It just absolutely boggles my mind that anybody thinks they have a legitimate seat at the table.
>In his final interview before handing over the special rapporteur mandate, Boyd said he struggles to makes sense of the world’s collective indifference to the suffering being caused by preventable environmental harms.
>over 40 million people have died of air pollution since I became special rapporteur in 2018, yet I just can’t get people to care.
>“I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is"
>"If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.”
I can only agree ... without a livable planet and a stable biosphere, everything else is for nought, as "home" is then unlivable.
Given the virtual embargo Greens live under with U.K. media and BBC prime time political programmes like Question Time heavily promoting Farage and now Reform instead, Green Party of England and Wales should be bloody proud of the results they pulled off in #LocalElections
Joe Biden has deported more people than Donald Trump [1], funded the police more than Trump [2], and has now helped to kill more Palestinians than Trump [3].
If you cannot allow criticism towards this person because you believe critiquing them is the same as endorsing the opponent, then you are participating in the very cult behavior you should be criticizing.
Yes, Trump would be worse, way worse...
...but it's horrible to compare Trump's potential genocide to Biden's currently real and ongoing genocide. Voting Democrat is harm reduction, portraying it overall as anything else is, in my privileged opinion, incorrect. In many individual examples I can, however, see how you come to view the Democrats not just as the lesser evil, but even positively.
Many vulnerable groups such as queer (especially trans) people are helped by a Democratic government, even maintaining the right to abortion is, visibly, helped by Democrats. There are examples in which voting the Democratic Party betters the lives of certain groups. Yet that change doesn't come sustainably and the tides may as well turn. If the Democratic Party is willing to throw one group of people under the bus for winning Republican voters, who is to say they won't do the same with your group?
If you don't give human rights to everyone, it's not a right anymore, it's being treated human as a privilege.
When it comes to foreign policy, unions, most social services, the treatment of the poor, healthcare, border policy, it's mostly the same between the two parties. Trump is merely the death of the euphemism.
A queer person won't vote for a party that doesn't support queer rights, so what should someone of another marginalized group not supported by the Democrats do?
Additionally, don't forget that it was the Democratic party that supported and funded Donald Trump's primary election in 2015 [4] as they always back the most far right candidate [5] in order to even make a distinction between the two parties visible.
What I'm trying to say is that you, as a democratic voter, cannot blame someone for supporting an alternative party, nor claim that supporting that third party is horrible merely because it may “allow for a Republican victory.” If it was in the Democrat's interest to change the election system or electoral college to allow for something other than effectively a two party system, then they would've done so.
I won't ride a high horse and claim it's morally wrong to support the Democrats, I don't think that. I do believe, however, that many people are disillusioned in voting for Democrats but know voting for Republicans only makes things worse. If not allowing a Republican victory was in the Democrat's interest, then they would adapt the party's stance to social, non-war/non-genocide, non-deportation, anticapitalist, pro-Housing, and pro-Healthcare for all positions. They don't, so what choice is there for people from marginalized groups other than voting for a third party? Can you tell them it's only morally right to vote for a party that worsens their living conditions or wishes to have them erased?
A representative democracy exists so people can voice their opinions through voting in the representation they favor — if you critique them because the USA's democratic system fails to represent them, hence they should vote for one of the two representations that are possible, but aim to kill them or worsen their lives, then you are critiquing an individual for the faultiness of the system.
And last but not least, any person should still be called out for “boycotting the election”, not voting is ridiculous which is perfectly explained by Jay Foreman here.
Participate in every election while you can. :voteblue: :dsa:
@tshirtman@ErikUden The power behind the Democratic Party is very firmly centrist at this point, and the only reason they seem liberal is because the Republican Party is so ridiculously far-right. Both of them are equally in the pocket of oil companies, big commerce, etc., and are only going to do anything /actually/ productive to save the world if their entire foundations are shaken. Complacency doesn't do that; the only thing that does is #VoteGreen or similar new blood.
Labour refusing to renationalise when it had 13 years of chances followed by 14 years of ruinous Conservative Government will tend to have that effect…
Today’s The National front page. Triple whammy for unionist gammon everywhere.
Which is nice.
(England based lovers take note: Scotland binned Labour and Tories yonks ago by coalescing around a progressive alternative. You can do the same: #VoteGreen in #GE2024. You’ll love yourself for it, so will your family, community and planet 😘)
Keir Starmer has not even acknowledged an invitation to Bute House to discuss child poverty and other key issues, First Minister Humza Yousaf has said – more than a month after the offer was made.
What an arrogant wanker Toryboy™️ Starmer is.
Mind you the shock of meeting an actual progressive with actual progressive policies might blow Starmer’s tiny conservative mind…
Think how much better England could be with a Green Government — it’s the only option if you’re a progressive who gives a damn about lifting children out of poverty.
General election latest: Rishi Sunak to call election for 4 July - after 'long' discussion in No 10 (news.sky.com)