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To think that everyone is getting far too excited about this Green win?

309 replies

DangerQuakeRhinoSnake · 28/02/2026 07:18

All this fuss about one Green win - I really don't think it's massively significant given the local demographic and the upcoming local elections will be the real test.

As if the Greens are going to get anywhere near power! Not going to happen.

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Pineneedlesincarpet · 01/03/2026 16:53

BIossomtoes · 01/03/2026 16:52

I’m not remotely embarrassed. And MN is fine with “foul language”, if it offends you don’t read my posts or engage with me.

Cant help it.

SundayBells · 01/03/2026 16:53

Reform MPs are all ex Tory MPs, ministers, party members or donors.

Reform are the Tories right now.

BIossomtoes · 01/03/2026 16:56

Pineneedlesincarpet · 01/03/2026 16:53

Cant help it.

No self control? What an admission!

HappydaysArehere · 01/03/2026 17:00

What it does show is that Farage is a poor loser. Family voting !!! So Reform doesn’t have family voting? It goes on all the time. A friend of mine couldn’t wait to go with her family to vote Brexit. She didn’t watch a single debate and just followed the family.

Pineneedlesincarpet · 01/03/2026 17:06

BIossomtoes · 01/03/2026 16:56

No self control? What an admission!

I can admit my faults. Inability to resist replying to certain posters being one of them. I am trying to curb this tendency but with little to no success thus far.

Wakethefuckup · 01/03/2026 17:08

HappydaysArehere · 01/03/2026 17:00

What it does show is that Farage is a poor loser. Family voting !!! So Reform doesn’t have family voting? It goes on all the time. A friend of mine couldn’t wait to go with her family to vote Brexit. She didn’t watch a single debate and just followed the family.

They stood together in the voting booth?

SundayBells · 01/03/2026 17:15

Pineneedlesincarpet · 01/03/2026 17:06

I can admit my faults. Inability to resist replying to certain posters being one of them. I am trying to curb this tendency but with little to no success thus far.

There might be some help for you here.
https://www.ditchthelabel.org/how-to-stop-bullying-others

ilovesooty · 01/03/2026 17:23

Pineneedlesincarpet · 01/03/2026 16:31

No need for foul language Blossom. I know it's embarrassing to admit your leftist tendency but we need to maintain some semblance of standards.

Oh give up with the snide. She didn't say anything other than what's commonly accepted on here.

Pineneedlesincarpet · 01/03/2026 17:36

SundayBells · 01/03/2026 17:15

There might be some help for you here.
https://www.ditchthelabel.org/how-to-stop-bullying-others

Oh come now. Blossom can quite easily defend herself against an attack from the "far right" (ahem).

Pineneedlesincarpet · 01/03/2026 17:39

ilovesooty · 01/03/2026 17:23

Oh give up with the snide. She didn't say anything other than what's commonly accepted on here.

You're objecting to me defending myself against the implication I am "far right"

And yet simultaneously I am being told off for suggesting Blossom may be left wing. Which she has admitted.

And who says the left don't have double standards! It's very tricky to know whats what sometimes. What a carry on.

BIossomtoes · 01/03/2026 17:45

Pineneedlesincarpet · 01/03/2026 17:39

You're objecting to me defending myself against the implication I am "far right"

And yet simultaneously I am being told off for suggesting Blossom may be left wing. Which she has admitted.

And who says the left don't have double standards! It's very tricky to know whats what sometimes. What a carry on.

Nobody said or implied you were far right. Go and have a nice cup of tea.

Pineneedlesincarpet · 01/03/2026 17:49

BIossomtoes · 01/03/2026 17:45

Nobody said or implied you were far right. Go and have a nice cup of tea.

Well I just might.

Whatifitallgoesright · 01/03/2026 17:51

god help us if they get anywhere. The Green council in Bristol has made some terrible decisions cutting down trees needlessly and a bunch of them walked out in protest at a question by a member of the public about womens rights to safe spaces. Ideologial fools, and that's even before you get to their totalitarian tendancies of expelling gender critical members; their cosying up to an oppressive theocracy.

DangerQuakeRhinoSnake · 01/03/2026 19:17

sleepwouldbenice · 01/03/2026 16:38

Many of my friends are more right leaning than me, but given a choice they would vote "leftist" rather than reform et al. Its not the insult you think it is.
Standards vary...

You have no idea how your friends vote.

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sleepwouldbenice · 01/03/2026 20:44

DangerQuakeRhinoSnake · 01/03/2026 19:17

You have no idea how your friends vote.

Yes i do thanks. We discuss lots of pros and cons.

sleepwouldbenice · 01/03/2026 20:46

Wakethefuckup · 01/03/2026 16:51

Are you assuming I vote reform?

Again. May as well

Wakethefuckup · 01/03/2026 20:48

sleepwouldbenice · 01/03/2026 20:46

Again. May as well

Well another thing you would be wrong about.

sleepwouldbenice · 01/03/2026 20:50

Pineneedlesincarpet · 01/03/2026 16:52

We are well beyond the middle ground anyway. Elections don't seem to be won there any more.

Mores the pity. Its called compromise. And recognising extremes

sleepwouldbenice · 01/03/2026 20:51

Wakethefuckup · 01/03/2026 20:48

Well another thing you would be wrong about.

Explain the difference

DangerQuakeRhinoSnake · 01/03/2026 21:09

sleepwouldbenice · 01/03/2026 20:44

Yes i do thanks. We discuss lots of pros and cons.

Unless you're in the booth with them you simply don't know.

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Freud2 · 01/03/2026 21:16

Pineneedlesincarpet · 01/03/2026 16:31

No need for foul language Blossom. I know it's embarrassing to admit your leftist tendency but we need to maintain some semblance of standards.

Very good!

Zov · 01/03/2026 21:20

I think it's because they rarely win anything @DangerQuakeRhinoSnake THAT is why they're so excited!

They won't win much more I don't think. I'm not right wing, but Greens are way too far-left for me. Could be worse though. Could be Reform in power! 😬

OneLilacCrow · 01/03/2026 22:08

God help us if those crazy Greens get anywhere near power.

Whatifitallgoesright · 01/03/2026 22:36

The Green party is a poor shadow of it's former self. They covered up about a Green rep's dad who was subsequently jailed for paedophilia and murder. They chucked out the people who tried to talk about this.
greensinexile.org.uk/exile-andy-healey

Whatifitallgoesright · 01/03/2026 22:41

Another interesting article regarding the Green's opinion of actual women.
https://lesbiangreens.uk/jude-english/

Jude English

https://lesbiangreens.uk/jude-english/