[Boiler]

Jaguar Land Rover is in Solihull.

My brother-in-law's late stepfather lived in sight of the factory, no less. But other than being a typical Green (in the pejorative sense), how the fuck can he be on Solihull Council and NOT notice that fuck-off huge factory on Lode Lane?!

Don't forget Nissan in Sunderland too, where they're building the next generation LEAF.

[mattomac]

Or just more politically homeless.the Lib Dem’s might get a say again in 15 years.

[Youngian]

Greens are likely to running councils in May. You let Dougal do a funeral!

[Oboogie]

Or just more politically homeless.the Lib Dem’s might get a say again in 15 years.

I forget where I saw it, but apparently, Ed is currently the most trusted party leader.

[satnav]

I think Ed is the most trusted politician in the same way that the Princess of Wales was considered the most popular year when she didn't appear in public for almost 12 months.

[The Weeping Angel]

[mattomac]

As I said, Populism it’s soundbite and easy to play on, of course there is talk of them hitting one of our bases.

So I’m not sure what else Starmer could do, but it will get you likes and reposts on TikTok, but as Pz points out it’s bollocks.

[Youngian]

And here's another twat plucking it out if his arse. He's going to have explain now why the fence sitting ditherer PM responded promptly to British bases coming under attack.

[mattomac]

The US were able to attack Iran without UK Bases

Mind you Tice is on the frontline isn't he.

[Youngian]

Well if the Express reckons

[Tubby Isaacs]

That this ultra liberalism seems to co-exist with strong positions against tobacco seems confused.

The state hasn't banned tobacco but regulated its sale and consumption, made safer addictive nicotine alternatives available and launched an on going public health campaign lasting decades. Its been a huge success and a role model for those advocating a regulated drug market. A different approach to laissez faire libertarians who dismiss it as nanny statism.
Other than prescribing herion addicts clean gear, I'm not entirely convinced by this approach. Or any, some issues don't have solutions just least bad options.

Are they not in favour of the plan to make tobacco progressively illegal to new adults? I'm not sure, but the liberal opposition to that seems to be Ian Dunt and virtually nobody else.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Well if the Express reckons

Another one there who thinks Attlee brought about an instant improvement in living standards, by the look of it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

As I said, Populism it’s soundbite and easy to play on, of course there is talk of them hitting one of our bases.

So I’m not sure what else Starmer could do, but it will get you likes and reposts on TikTok, but as Pz points out it’s bollocks.

All those countries look the same to Zack. Sadly I think there's a critical mass of people who fall for this stuff now.

[The Weeping Angel]

More from Darren Johnson here on why he left the Greens for Labour.

https://labourlist.org/2026/03/green-pa ... n-johnson/

With the seemingly endless trickle of announcements from people defecting from Labour to the Green Party, I’ll explain why I have been one, although certainly not the only one, to recently make the journey the other way.

I joined the Green Party in 1987 as an enthusiastic 20 year-old concerned about the environment, gay rights and animal welfare with a clear left-of-centre (although far from hardline Marxist) view of the world on social and economic issues. I ended up representing the Greens on the London Assembly for 16 years, serving as a local councillor in Lewisham for 12 years and serving as one of the party’s ‘Principal Speakers’ (in the days before they allowed themselves to have leaders) for two years.

I finally resigned from the Greens at the end of 2024. A ludicrously irresponsible intervention from Green MP, Sian Berry, on the topic of puberty blockers, deftly put down by Health Secretary Wes Streeting, underlined to me that this was no longer a party of science and reason and evidence-based policy-making. However, even if I had been on Sian Berry’s side rather than Wes Streeting’s side in that particular debate, I would almost certainly have ended up resigning from the Greens anyway, over a host of other issues:

The ludicrous policy motions, like ‘abolish landlords’, “pickled into rigid dogma” as Neil Kinnock might say. The influx of activists from the hard-left and all the extremism, the apologia for terrorism, the antisemitism and the downright oddness that this entails.
The wacky monetary policies and the incoherent flip-flopping on NATO, which demonstrate that this is a party without either a serious spending plan or a serious commitment to defending Ukraine against Putin.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sian Berry's intervention there was as bad as he says.

I am extremely worried and fearful about this decision to continue the blanket ban, and I want to ask the Secretary of State about his reliance in the terms of reference and reasons for this decision on the purpose for which these drugs are being prescribed—that is, being trans—when they are safely used by young people for other conditions, as he acknowledges. Does he understand that this is, at heart, discriminatory?

By all means, make a scientific case that the recommendation by the Commission for Human Medicines was wrong- I've suggested myself that it's possible that the medical establishment is too conservative. But this is just dreadful logic.