@TheNuthatch I hope your family are okay 💐
I was beginning to think nothing was going to happen in the region. Normally I think about it on a Friday because Trump prefers to act after markets have closed but the last couple of Fridays I didn't think about it at all. I thought perhaps they decided against it.
@WellErrr the brave people of Iran have been protesting against the regime for quite some time and many protestors have been killed by the regime. I hope that freedom is finally in sight.
@DancingFerret That's interesting because many people say that Conservative & Labour are pretty irrelevant now and I know what they mean. Of course we can never know what's really happening until the general election. But the vibe among many is that the "uniparty" is irrelevant. Greens have been surging ahead in the polls since early autumn, I think? It looks possible Keir Starmer will lose his seat to them, again it's based on polling in the area.
Very much way the way the New York mayoral election went.
it really, really really worries me, for many reasons.
The general level of crazy we see on the left in the US is about to get a big boost here. Scary times. But those people are very happy.
Some might say there's going to be more of a battle between the real left and the real right. I dislike the rhetoric that's been directed towards Reform on here and I wouldn't even vote for them.
I pop up on the other threads occasionally trying to establish facts. I think Greens really need to clarify their stance on drugs for example.
I don't think smearing anyone is helpful. But mostly, it's not worth engaging. People don't want to hear facts and that's scary. There was a lot of "Reform will tax women if they don't have children" going on here. I'm a childfree woman and I've seen other parties in Europe suggest that. It gives me the rage. No one in Reform has suggested it, but it's touted as if it was fact on here.
One of the best ways to get information is to follow the party leaders on social media. The headlines are never accurate and then what people talk about is often not from the source. That puzzles me. It's now so easy to get information from the source, but people don't do it.