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This country is doomed

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HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 08:29

While the vote in Gorton and Denton may be described as a 'protest' vote the strength of both the Greens and Reform performance is something to worry all of us not just Labour.

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Usernameunavailableagain12 · 27/02/2026 09:59

Wordsmithery · 27/02/2026 08:36

I've voted Green for years and would be delighted if they were successful at the next election. Obviously a Reform win would be highly problematic though. What's your issue with the Green party exactly?

They make me cringe, especially Hannah Spencer

Missohnoyoubetterdont · 27/02/2026 09:59

LakieLady · 27/02/2026 09:58

So smart of these militant Islamists to elect a gay Jewish man as leader, it makes the perfect smokescreen for their true intentions.😉

This made me laugh so much! Perfect retort.

JonesTown · 27/02/2026 09:59

Would it be more efficient to just allow community leaders or husbands to vote on behalf of women? That way they don’t need to leave the house.

HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 09:58

glitterpaperchain · 27/02/2026 09:55

What a weird, patronising post to say voting green is just a protest vote

I know many people who are planning to vote green in full seriousness because they support the party and their policies

Wow. It is not a new tactic to vote for somebody as a protest. The last GE was mainly fought on a protest against the Conservatives and the likelihood yesterday was a protest vote against Labour (and to keep out Reform) so not patronising at all to state it was a protest vote.

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nomas · 27/02/2026 09:58

Marmalademorning · 27/02/2026 09:56

How frightening that nearly 50% of people voted YABU. You have to wonder what’s going through the minds of all the so-called loving parents who are happy for their children to grow up in a country ruled by a hard-left extremist party.

Extremist?

Who would you have voted for in a choice between Reform and Greens?

LakieLady · 27/02/2026 09:58

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So smart of these militant Islamists to elect a gay Jewish man as leader, it makes the perfect smokescreen for their true intentions.😉

Missohnoyoubetterdont · 27/02/2026 09:57

plutosache · 27/02/2026 09:56

But we get worse every year so it’s kind of true.

I think as people get older they think the world is always coming to an end. I remember my father saying the same thing in the 90/2000s.

glitterpaperchain · 27/02/2026 09:57

dubbie · 27/02/2026 09:56

What policies?

If you want to know what Green's policies are there's plenty of information on their website

BunfightBetty · 27/02/2026 09:57

Mangelwurzelfortea · 27/02/2026 09:49

Can this not turn into yet another thread where everyone gets accused of antisemitism?

As long as nobody posts anything anti-semitic, there'll be nothing for anyone else to call out.

Mangelwurzelfortea · 27/02/2026 09:57

Nevermind17 · 27/02/2026 09:56

What is ‘going on’ exactly?

Apparently the Greens are a Trojan horse for an Islamic State government.

hedgheog · 27/02/2026 09:57

Wordsmithery · 27/02/2026 08:36

I've voted Green for years and would be delighted if they were successful at the next election. Obviously a Reform win would be highly problematic though. What's your issue with the Green party exactly?

What are you excited about policy wise?

Marmalademorning · 27/02/2026 09:56

How frightening that nearly 50% of people voted YABU. You have to wonder what’s going through the minds of all the so-called loving parents who are happy for their children to grow up in a country ruled by a hard-left extremist party.

Nevermind17 · 27/02/2026 09:56

Stick0rTwist · 27/02/2026 09:47

And you need to wake up @nomas and open you eyes to what’s going on

What is ‘going on’ exactly?

nomas · 27/02/2026 09:56

DrMorbius · 27/02/2026 09:43

This is true, but not all Muslims are the same. I worked in the Middle East for 20 years and they cannot believe what we are allowing in the UK. Hence the UAE no longer allowing students to attend UK universities. A serious state sanctioned action that seems largely ignored by the media.

Its true that not all Muslims think the same way. But there are certain groups largely non ME culture that think certain ways, Gaza etc. Ignoring this fact is why the UK is doomed. Stopping people discussing this is definitely a tactic.

This is true, but not all Muslims are the same. I worked in the Middle East for 20 years and they cannot believe what we are allowing in the UK. Hence the UAE no longer allowing students to attend UK universities. A serious state sanctioned action that seems largely ignored by the media.

The UAE is an authoritarian regime.

It’s funny how you right wingers love those when it suits you, eh?

plutosache · 27/02/2026 09:56

Missohnoyoubetterdont · 27/02/2026 09:55

This gets said every year on MN. Every fucking year. 🙄

But we get worse every year so it’s kind of true.

BunfightBetty · 27/02/2026 09:56

BoxingHare · 27/02/2026 09:46

He'll be the wrong kind of Jew.

🙄

From the Left's point of view, the 'wrong kind of Jew' is a Jewish person who is Zionist. Which, as far as I know, is the majority of British Jews.

dubbie · 27/02/2026 09:56

glitterpaperchain · 27/02/2026 09:55

What a weird, patronising post to say voting green is just a protest vote

I know many people who are planning to vote green in full seriousness because they support the party and their policies

What policies?

plutosache · 27/02/2026 09:55

ManukaMoneyMaker · 27/02/2026 09:52

I'm old enough to remember the days during New Labour where everyone complained that all the parties were the same, everyone sitting just left or right of centre, and so what was the point of voting.
Now we have the opposite, radical differences between parties, and it's seen as the end of the UK!

But radicals of any kind (green and reform) are by definition, radical. I don’t want a radical government. I want a kind of centre party that judges each issue on its merits rather than some stupid fucking unthinking party line.

Missohnoyoubetterdont · 27/02/2026 09:55

Happyjoe · 27/02/2026 09:54

The British press and social media have done their damage... we are in for a hard time of it next election. The UK is going to hell in a handbasket.

This gets said every year on MN. Every fucking year. 🙄

glitterpaperchain · 27/02/2026 09:55

What a weird, patronising post to say voting green is just a protest vote

I know many people who are planning to vote green in full seriousness because they support the party and their policies

Happyjoe · 27/02/2026 09:54

The British press and social media have done their damage... we are in for a hard time of it next election. The UK is going to hell in a handbasket.

Mangelwurzelfortea · 27/02/2026 09:53

JonesTown · 27/02/2026 09:50

Interesting that so many on the left are dismissing these family voting allegations as unimportant.

Is it a good thing to move towards a position where women are instructed how to vote by their husbands?

They do happen - they happen in my town - but it's been the Conservatives who've principally benefitted so the right wingers have stayed oddly quiet about it.

RoastBanana · 27/02/2026 09:53

Don’t be so silly. It’s good that ordinary people are waking up to the fact that the Labour Party, Reform & the Tories are all differently packaged wings of the same uni party - a uni party that has been bought by the super-rich and corporate interests.

Ordinary people want jobs, and apprenticeships, and a decent healthcare system, and decent schools, and pensions, and clean water, and free speech, and an end to corruption in politics. If we keep on voting for Labour, or Reform , or the Tories, all we will get is continuing impoverishment and exploitation. The super rich will carry on getting richer and richer, while our children face a dismal future of poverty and uncertainty, purposefully distracted by shallow culture war issues while their country burns.

There are certain Green policies with which I personally disagree strongly (amongst them women’s single sex spaces, and immigration). But notwithstanding this they are the last hope for our country to remain a actual sovereign country, led by real politicians who represent ordinary people, not their corporate masters - rather than a miserable, suffering failed state run for the benefit of faceless financial and corporate interests.

BunfightBetty · 27/02/2026 09:53

FOJN · 27/02/2026 09:41

I'm relieved to see that some people appreciate that the Greens and Reform are two cheeks of the same arse. They represent less compromising versions of the current two party system.

I can't be the only left leaning person who feels utterly alienated by the state of what is supposed to be left wing politics. Its concerning that people who claim to be on the left can easily see how right wing populism could slide into something more sinister but assume that everyone on the left is benevolent and never power hungry or self serving.

Reform and the Greens represent the fringe ends of the mainstream political spectrum and at the moment the wide centre is occupied almost exclusively with neoliberals. Our options are to vote for borderline extremists or continue to watch the transfer of wealth to the billionaire class.

Spot on.

HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 09:52

DrMorbius · 27/02/2026 09:43

This is true, but not all Muslims are the same. I worked in the Middle East for 20 years and they cannot believe what we are allowing in the UK. Hence the UAE no longer allowing students to attend UK universities. A serious state sanctioned action that seems largely ignored by the media.

Its true that not all Muslims think the same way. But there are certain groups largely non ME culture that think certain ways, Gaza etc. Ignoring this fact is why the UK is doomed. Stopping people discussing this is definitely a tactic.

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