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.

He also retweeted a post claiming that the police woman wasn't injured and it was all a lie.

I agree on his attempts but lowering the voting age probably isn’t the best way to get what he’s after.

The Greens will appeal more than Labour to that age group.

Would you have started this thread with the same sentiment in your opening post if Reform had won?

Despite your username I agree.

https://x.com/ZackPolanski/status/2019031700425339392

Because this is a thread about greens being elected and not specifically about that. Before you know it, the thread has gone off at a tangent and you've got 4,000 posts about that. Go and start another. It's boring it gets hijacked all the time by ppl just wanting to go on about that. Every bloody time. I think we all know plenty about it by now thank you very much..

Oh do shut up.

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Fgs. You asked for a dedicated board for this claptrap, and you still try to shoehorn it into everything.

For the record, I don't think men can change sex, and they shouldn't be in woman's prison. It's not the only issue affecting the word at the moment.

OK, you sound sincere, and I accept it as a genuine mistake on your part.
You might want to change the capital 'E' if you don't want to appear that way.

Agreed. Sensible policies ( mostly) for decent people.

Still, rather Greens than the hateful party that is Reform.

Indeed.

@EasternStandard , the username was admittedly meant to be memorable.

I'm actually proud to see a woman who is intelligent and articulate leading a major party, proud to see that it's someone fom a STEM background not some cardboard cut-out public school-educated career politician who thinks he'd like to have a go at it because he might be rather good at being PM.

That really is the pot calling the kettle black. Get rid of immigrants and all our problems will be solved or get the Billionaires to pay for everything and all our problems will be solved. Simple lies for simple people.

I think they're good guys coming from the right place morally.

I do think they are offering over-simplistic solutions to complex problems. I think a lot of their policies could be economically unworkable, either per se, or because the markets would reject them.

I don't think this is a problem as long as they remain a party of protest, pulling the discourse back to a more civilised and decent place. I would feel uneasy if it looked like they were anywhere near forming a government.

They're still much better than Reform, however, who are clueless racist idiots funded by Russia.

yes, pie in the sky everywhere you look!

I agree with this to a point, but can you not see how one of those might be much, much worse than the other?

You mention intergration - I totally agree with you. But this is part of the problem, SOME immigrants don't want to integrate. As a result, this leads to division within certain communities who choose to follow their own culture / beliefs and not engage with others outside of this.

Good. Billionaires go..I'll buy them a ticket and give them a map. We dont need ppl who dont give a stuff about us. Let's have a nation of small businesses and well run nationalised businesses where profit goes back into the business for investment and infrastructure and not just into shareholders pockets. Look at thexl water comoanies rsil travel, tech stuff.......profit for them, no care for us. .We dont want big private business that just sucks us dry and gives nothing back. Sod off.

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Then you need to have a word with the OP who raised the issue in the first place. Can she be accused of hijacking her own thread?
This is a forum where most posters are women. It's not unreasonable that we may see the attitudes of various parties towards our rights as an important factor in deciding whether we are pleased or worried about their electoral success.
I referenced the intent of Reform towards the EA. Which I think is very important. Yes, I spoke about the impact on wonen, but given everyone of us has a PC, dispensing with it would impact us all. To me that's a very strong reason for me to be pleased this election showed the limits of their public support, and entirely relevent to the thread.

Yes. I already posted that. You haven’t addressed the rest of what I said.

Various sources including Zack/David confirmed this did happen.

I don’t dispute that he is very popular, I think “expected to win” is not yet a guarantee. And even so there would be a question of mayoral election in the near future.
A lot happened between the moment he was refused and the day of by-election itself. And as we all know - there’s nowt so queer as folk.