Labour is very good at ignoring progressive or environmentally minded voices from within their own ranks.
Is a lot closer to what is said in the article than “some young women are being “radicalised” into voting Green”
You have not read it.
Just read the article
I’m not against that, but there might not be any diplomatic bullets left in the metaphorical chamber. Not saying Russia should get away with this, but an eye for an eye isn’t always the best reaction. I think they should take note (which they seem to do) and fix as many holes in the system as possible, rather than just revange and hope that will make Russia think twice next time.
Then why did they use the phrase “why isn’t this ringing alarm bells?” to describe the only leftist political party remaining in the UK?
“This” refers to young woman voting different, on average more left then before. Read the article first, then comment.
What consequences would you suggest then?
I agree, I don’t see the writer arguing how radical or not the greens are. Her point is about these women, who are (just like young men) no longer voting for the parties in the middle. I think this is a trend also happening outside of the UK and here in The Netherlands nobody considers this a radical thing but we also have an ever increasing gap between the parties on the right (who attract more young men) and those on the left (who attract more young women).
I myself believe mysogonists in the far right behave much more problematic than the most radical climate protesters, and I understand why the attention goes to the increase of mysogony and racism. But I appreciate this article because it points out and explains quite well how young men voting right isn’t the only thing happening in the political landscape.
My point is exactly that her reason for saying this is because the fact she is negotiating, what I meant with calling bullshit is that I don’t think this person is saying this from a genuine belief. Might be true that she thinks this, I just don’t think she would have said it if she wasn’t in a negotiation.
At the time of righting the upvote/downvote ratio is 30%, with a score of -4 so I feel it would be good if I make a comment here to say that this is written by a woman from England, so she is talking about people like herself.
I’ll also share the following from the article to provide extra context:
Why isn’t this quiet form of female political alienation ringing more alarm bells?
But the failure even to be curious about what it is young women are trying to say, just because their chosen revolt against the mainstream takes a less aggressive or destructive form than young Reformers’, feels profoundly unfair. Sometimes it pays to listen to people sitting quietly at the back, not just the ones screaming in your face.
I’ll refrain from expressing an opinion about the people who downvoted this article, since I don’t know them.
Because of national laws about gay marriage differencing greatly and there being a lot of countries where religion plays a serious role in politics i wanted to share with you the actual legal articles, since these are quite easy to understand and the eu has these laws in all languages as well.
This is from the English version of the CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Article 11
Freedom of expression and information1 Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.
Article 12
Freedom of assembly and of association1 Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association at all levels, in particular in political, trade union and civic matters, which implies the right of everyone to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his or her interests.
Article 21
Non-discrimination1 Any discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation shall be prohibited.
tl;dr No, it is not legal.
“Obviously I’ve been meeting Scott Bessent this week whilst I’m in Washington, but I’ve also this week met the French, the German, the Spanish, the Polish, the Swedish, the Finnish finance ministers - because it is so important that we rebuild those trading relationships with our nearest neighbours in Europe, and we’re going to do that in a way that is good for British jobs and British consumers.”
I do agree with her but I’m also calling bullshit because this is exactly what you’d say to improve your negotiation position. Note that she is already in Washington. She is trying to get a deal done. I mean good for her and I wish her and everyone in the UK all the best, but the UK tries to be the link between EU and US just like Meloni. They want best of both worlds (who doesn’t).
The result of these talks will be the real news, this is just a cookie for the hungry journalists. A kind of fortune cookie that is meant as a message to the other guy at the negotiation table.
Next week’s headlines;
BREAKING: Yesterday’s deal broken.
BREAKING: Broken deal repaired.
BREAKING: Repaired deal “never existed”.
BREAKING: Broken deal still in place, government blames scapegoat.
BREAKING: A ‘better deal’, should we take it?
For Spain yes, for Gaza no. But I agree.
Yay, bonus:
Alongside the labels the EU is introducing “ecodesign requirements” imposing minimum standards on the same products. Those include protection from splashes of water (and dust particles larger than 1mm for phones), scratch and drop protection, batteries that retain at least 80 percent of their capacity after 800 charging cycles, and making “critical spare parts” available within 5-10 working days. Manufacturers are also required to provide operating system updates within six months of the source code becoming available — a bar that Samsung would have failed to meet with its recent One UI 7 rollout.
Go EU! 🇪🇺
Yes, but I rather have them do 1 bad thing instead of 2.
A lot of pro-russia supporters left in eastern Europe, although it seems it’s mainly certain politicians who stuck with this since Russia invaded Ukraine.
I wonder who wrote the playbook they are all following
Hint 1: They’re receiving funds from its writer.
Hint 2: The writer used to be the boss of the security apparatus that influences all those right-wing nationalists are influenced by.
For this research, we’re focusing on e-mail. Especially in Scandinavia and the Benelux, Microsoft has established a strong prevalence. Purely based on the MX-records, we learn that 72% of Belgian municipalities run Microsoft mail servers and 60% of the Dutch municipalities. For Scandinavia, it’s 64% in Norway and 57% in Sweden. In Finland, it’s a whopping 77% if the cities that are being served by Microsoft.
At the same time, countries like Germany – known for its strong hacker culture and cybersecurity awareness – land at mearly 4% running Microsoft. In Hungary too, they land on hardly 3% and in Bulgaria they are surpassed by Google, together only having 4% of the mail-share.
So many list where Scandinavia is on top and south-east Europe is on the bottom, but not with this lol. I guess this is the first time i see a benefit of the Sovjet occupation of eastern Europe.
I was just thinking about seeing this move in my How To Find A Scapegoat workbook.
All of these efforts to bring peace to Ukraine sadly reminds me of the US’s retreat from Afghanistan.
PVV has been kept out of the government for over a decade because of their ideology, ultimately becoming the biggest party and indeed they are now part of the government. Turns out, they can’t get anything done because they don’t really have anyone in their ranks who is actually capable of doing the actual work. Let’s hope the same will be true for Reform, AfD and FN.