Gorton and Denton, what have you done?

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You have elected as an MP to stand in the UK&NI parliament a person who said in a panel interview with Annabel Tiffin from BBC Northwest Tonight that the Manchester Arena bombing was caused by people sewing division by questioning immigration.

That statement is so outrageous I don't even know where to start.

Yep to this.

FRO? As in to and?

I have never reported you TheKuiperBelt.

fuck right off, I think.

Kuiper is showing their real colours

Used SOP before, not sure what that is short for

Standard Operating Procedure, I believe.

Kuiper telling me to FRO is SOP 😂

They obviously make things up in a florid fashion that's reminiscent of penny dreadfuls.

I always find it shocking when people justify bad behaviour by saying " well other people are doing it so why shouldn't I?

Doing the right thing is a matter of principles and shouldnt depend on what others are doing or have done.

Yes I presume all the drug addicts will be celebrating.

Name a country that didn’t do that, our poets, engineers, painters, composers all great. We brought infrastructure to many countries and we stopped the slave trade.

So you are an advocate of legalising A class drugs?

I support the greens. The two big crises of our age are wealth inequality and climate change and they are the only party that is prepared to tackle both. The fact is that we if we don't tackle these issues then everyone is fucked. That includes men and women, working and middle class, trans, Muslim and reform voters.

Political parties are like buses, not taxis. None of them will take you right to your door. You have to choose the one that gets you closest. I don't love absolutely everything about the greens but they are the party that gets me the nearest to my home.

The green party will solve wealth inequality by making everyone desperately poor.

You clearly a) don't understand addiction b) are rather confused about Hannah Spencer's powers as a newly elected MP.

Ah that lazy old chestnut. Where's your evidence? Comparing countries the relationship between inequality and wealth is negative. There are loads of countries which are both more equal than us and with higher disposable income for the average person.

(And p.s. yes I have heard of the laffer curve, and no there's no evidence that we're on the right side of it...)

Greens in my area blocked some roads off & put planters there.. ?

Don’t be silly. Almost all of the rest of Western and northern Europe has a higher tax take as a percentage of income than the UK.

most of these places are now, I’m afraid, happier and wealthier than us, and with better public services

that said, the far right has never been very concerned with facts

If you think that Andy Burnham would have won had he been allowed to run (and I do) then they weren't voting for Green policies. It was a convenient place to put their vote to send a message while knowing that Greens won't be implementing national policy.

Greens are notorious for digging up the roads and pavements to make them impassible.

AND, they make the leaves fall from the trees every Autumn.

Well known facts.

The UK Greens' policies actively damage our response to climate change.

First, they oppose nuclear power, the lowest carbon-density energy source we have (on some measures tied with wind), and by far the lowest density source that can supply base load. Proven in practice, countries with the highest nuclear mix (e.g. France) are the least energy-intense rich countries, while Germany, which just gave up nuclear, is seeing its carbon emissions rising rapidly.

Second, they are sceptical of carbon trading and offshoring of carbon-reduction actions. Given the same money, the Greens would rather spend it on a UK project that removes a small amount of carbon than one a developing country that removes a lot. Ideology above impact.

So maybe I disagree with their methods, but at least they're focused on the issue, right?

Not that either. At their last party conference, about 9 of 61 motions were climate-related, or about 9 of 40 excluding procedural items. That's not a party serious about tackling an urgent civilisational emergency.

lots as Secretary of State for Business and Trade and on the Women's Equalities committee? I mean - do you think that it is just the PM who does stuff? Or that the only things going on are things mentioned in the media headlines? As leader of the opposition she gets the background work and research done BEFORE spouting off nonsense. I can only assume you don't actually delve very much into what is happening in the country, as someone actually interested would have used a bit of ole google or chat-gpt.

what countries would you like to emulate?

please can you provide an example?

hello Chat-GPT

This statement of fact demonstrates the appeal of Reform to the majority of voters in the constituency. More than two-thirds of the electorate rejected Reform. Yet the minority Reform-minded voters are accusing the majority of Progressive/Centre voters of divisive politics. Despite being outnumbered two to one at the ballot box. Hilarious.

What did she achieve in that role?

She didn't implement recommendations from the Jay report.