[Tubby Isaacs]

I'm moving from this constituency but have dropped a note to Ellie Chowns. She certainly gets anti-semitism, but the party as a whole probably doesn't appreciate what the outer left is like on this stuff (and much else). Big dust ups over not particularly significant internal posts was a Militant thing back in the day (and whatever their considerable faults, they did have people in them who could actually get council houses built).

This might help Labour and the Lib Dems on vote share, but I reckon the Greens are here to stay and at least have to be sane enough for Labour to be able to form a Coalition with them.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Surprising result here. I'd have thought that someone as unpopular as Farage would lose to Binface with the general public, but no. Maybe funny candidates are less popular than we think. All the leaders actually beat Binface, Badenoch and Burnham very comfortably. Apart from Polanski, who loses to him very badly.

[davidjay]

Is there any mention of environmental issues in there?

[Yug]

Is there any mention of environmental issues in there?

Don't be silly. It's the Green Party.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Even pre-Polanski, the Greens weren't as sharp on climate stuff as they should have been. Carla Denyer is an engineer who worked in wind energy, but I never saw her bring this out. It's the same with Hannah Spencer, who used to install heat pumps. This is one area where the UK has failed badly and continues to fail badly, so why isn't she much more visible and using her experience? This would have been a better use of her profile than making out that the Commons is full of people who are shitfaced all the time, which doesn't seem to be true.

A cynical part of me thinks that the reason they don't do this is because engineering involves trade offs, and all parties (not just the Greens) don't trust voters with those.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Couple of new Scottish Green MSPs here showing that failing to get important stuff about renewables right is no bar.

In the last year I can find, Scotland's consumption was 73% met by renewables. It doesn't consume and produce at the same time that it consumes. So it has to use substantial non-renewables too.

[Samanfur]

I'm amazed that this didn't get more traction, given the current media climate.