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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 1h

Alas, because of our screwed-up electoral system, unless you're in one of the 100 constituencies which gpew/YP/pc/GPS could be competitive in, there's not going to be much that voting alone can change.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 3h

When you have 900k people on your mailing list, you have a lot of room for screw ups. Piss off 90% of them and you still have more members than GPEW had yesterday. Though not today.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 3h

You'll note that GPEW current front bench team appears to have learned the crucial 'don't triangulate, just come out fighting lesson. But yeah, the media wing of the regime is going to hammer us. Do you fancy joining, help us weather the storm? Join.greenparty.org

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 3h

No it's not. We are years out from the next GE. Lots more chances for YP to get their shit together and start working on a targeting deal.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 3h

As a member of MK you can keep on lobbying to retain what looks like a tacit agreement not to challenge each other: in the county council elections this year there looked like GPEW and MK had met over a pint and divided up the seats. Long may this continue.

Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you!

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 3h

Welcome!

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 5h

Brexit = not all bad.

Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 5h

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

www.euroveg.eu

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 5h

Ooh yeah I can see how overconfidence (but also fear of occupying discursive space of victim) means younger people would be much more vulnerable to 'cooling the mark' attacks.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 5h

True as a general statement, but I am interested in whether or not there's shifts in fear levels between 'no attempts ongoing', 'attempt made, avoided' and 'victim of attempt'.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6h

All the chat this week about how the Tories are “no longer a serious party” reminds me of this, which I put together just to show how wacky and disastrous Theresa May’s first few months in office were. Not all of this was their fault, but the summary is worth reviewing.

2017

22 May
Manchester bombing. Initial reports quickly pick up on bomber's past as militiaman in Libyan War, where he may well have been permitted to travel (and later retrieved from by British government.
8 June
General Election
14 June
Grenfell fire, Theresa May gets rough welcome
19 June
Finsbury Park attack. Terror attack by man who tells court he came to London to kill the Labour Mayor and the leader of the opposition.

11 September EU Withdrawal Bill passes

15 September Botched bomb attack on tube train at Parson's Green station

22 September UK's credit rating downgraded by Moody's

29 September Wife of former Russian Finance Minister donates £160,000 to the Conservative Party
October
Conservative Party quietly leaks to website that it has a secret spreadsheet of arse-grabbers and tit-touchers that might be sent to the press, if MPs don't cooperate on Brexit votes.
November
First reports about something weird going on with the Home Office targeting black people
1 November
Michael Fallon resigns for creepy, arse-grabbing behaviour
5 November
Paradise Papers leaked, revealing incredible scale of tax avoidance and funny-money concealment by the super-rich
8 November
Priti Patel fired for off-the-books foreign policy freebooting with foreign country while on holiday, without official sanction.

15 November British Medical Journal report says the Conservative Party's
austerity programme has caused 120,000 excess deaths
3 December
Entire board of Social Mobility Commission quits at once, citing severe displeasure at government
2018

3 January
NHS England cancels non-urgent treatments due to backlog
15 January
Construction company Carillion goes bust owing E1,500,000,000
30 January
Leaked government report shows even the weakest form of Brexit will be ruinous, costing up to 8% of GDP within 15 years
8 February
NHS England records worst-ever A&E performance
22 February
Higher education strike
27 February
Severe snowstorms - army called in to rescue stranded drivers,
people die in sub-zero temperatures
1 March
Ken Livingstone suspended from Labour Party for insane conduct in public life
4 March
Russian agents poison dissidents in Salisbury with nerve agent
12 March
Wife of former Russian Finance Minister donates another £50,000 to Conservative Party. Donates another £50,000.
20 March
Donates another £50,000.
April 2018
Windrush. scandal breaks; Amber Rudd resigns; Theresa May - Prime Minister and architect

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 5h

Though Livingston successfully did similar in 2005.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

The press lads didn’t turn on the Tories as one in late 2021 because they had recently become embarrassing. They turned on them overnight because they had been this embarrassing *for years*, and the lads now felt safe letting them collapse, because the Labour right were finally secure as a fallback.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 5h

Anyone looked at effects of scam attacks on fear of crime, overall feelings of security etc? How do these correlate with age?

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 5h

And GPEW also pays attention to veterans' welfare concerns, hence session about this at the recent conference.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h

The Conservative party's treatment of David, who exposed the cash for questions scandal, is a former political journalist of the year, and has been covering party conferences for almost 40 years, is a disgrace
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 8h

2.5 million veterans have a variety of different takes on D&S policy. There was at least one veteran on the working group which wrote the policy.
GPEW wants to get away from 'ideological purity' and the policy does just that -- an end to Blairite wars of transformation, putting UK defence first. 1/2

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 9h

Wow, massive typos above. Sorry.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 9h

The C20th took the piss out of Victorian formal mourning traditions but I can see the case for them. "The person with the black armband is in a different place right now and needs some extra consideration."

a little girl is hugging a blue monster from monsters inc

Alt: a little girl is hugging a blue monster from monsters inc

media.tenor.com

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 9h

GOEW already hasone of those: be in a defensive alliance against military aggression based on international solidarity, also stop doing neocolonialism.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 9h

Got to say I am pleasantly surprised by this.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 10h

The answer is simple, though unpleasant. Although you think (and I agree with you) that the purpose of life should be universal, and apply to all humans, they do not. They want one class to be cogs, while another class gets to express themselves.

They work for the latter group to impose this.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 10h

And where the fuck has he ever gone in Leicester where he sees 'a single ethnicity'? Unless -- and I may be on to something here -- he sees 'not white' as a single ethnicity?

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 10h

So sorry to hear about this, matey.

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