Official: I'm a dangerous extremist!
Alan Cresswell
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So, over the years there have been several people well known for being a six-pack short of a six-pack who have called Greens dangerous extremists, Andrew Neil being one of them who recently took a pot shot at those campaigning for Scottish Independence and has form for pot shots at Scottish Greens and the wider Yes movement. But, who listens to people like that? A lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
But, now we've been put in the same category of dangerous extremists within the same breath as others in an "axis of authoritarian states" including Russia, Iran and North Korea. Those of us who campaign for equal rights for all people regardless of their gender or for the rights of a nation to be self-governing have been added to this "axis of authoritarians" by none other than the Prime Minister (for a few months more) of the UK.
I guess that means I'm either an official dangerous extremist, or the PM has officially totally lost his sense of perspective.
But, now we've been put in the same category of dangerous extremists within the same breath as others in an "axis of authoritarian states" including Russia, Iran and North Korea. Those of us who campaign for equal rights for all people regardless of their gender or for the rights of a nation to be self-governing have been added to this "axis of authoritarians" by none other than the Prime Minister (for a few months more) of the UK.
I guess that means I'm either an official dangerous extremist, or the PM has officially totally lost his sense of perspective.
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Did he ever have one to lose?
I suppose a supporter of Brexit like the PM would know something about colluding with Russia given that the Russians are known to have interfered with the campaigns leading up to the Brexit referendum in support of Brexit.
From the first link:
Ah. I see…
Yay.
I know it’s not very hellish but sending my sympathy. And prayers for both of our countries to survive the far right extremists…
It is a very Trumpian behaviour to accuse others of doing the actual thing you are doing. Because, I suppose, it reflects and deflects the argument away from you.
The Tories look increasingly like a spent force and seem to have now become the shell of a party ideology, which apparently only exists to blame others for the things they've done.
Case in point from last week when the Tories dug up an old speech by someone on the Labour frontbench about the moral necessity of accepting Syrian refugees. How this was symptomatic of the Labour party policy on migration etc and so on.
Of course it took seconds to find out that weeks/months after this Labour Party speech, the Then Prime Minister David Cameron accepted the moral necessity of accepting Syrian refugees.
Another one was Sunak yesterday trying to say that the reason the country is in a bad state was Labour. Who have been in opposition for the last 15 years.
It is typical authoritarian behaviour.
Look, a squirrel!
I to am a danger to society with my evil lefty views. From what I can tell the Ship is a place that harbours the likes of me. The government must be watching us. Which one of you is the a spy in disguise, for Rishi 🥸. Come on admit it
You're doomed! Next you'll be spouting dangerous lefty humanitarian stuff from The Sermon on the Mount!
I think the Greens are generally more radical and lefty than many people realise, and I don't say that as a criticism. It's just a lot of people don't know much about them other than that they are 'Green'.
And yes, they are picking up disaffected Labour supporters.
Being seen as dangerously subversive by someone else whether Sunak or the bloke down the road, and regarding oneself as dangerously subversive, are, of course, too entirely different things.
I'm reminded of Rik Mayall in The Young Ones. 'People who don't pay their TV licences against the Nazis!'
Especially in the context of a speech saying “here are a bunch of threats we all face, and if that’s not enough there are even some of us who want to break us up from within”.
Nothing to see here, as far as I’m concerned. Just a flimsy excuse to start yet a-fucking-nother anti-Tory thread.
It'll be not far off 15 years by the time the next GE is held.
The fact that Wishi-Washi fails to admit that the country is in a bad state is proof of his disconnect from reality...
O dear. Another outbreak of Fujiarism.
From the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69001810
Gosh yes, now that you've explained it like that it all becomes clear.
All problems are due to the "enemy within" with their dastardly act of trying to change the direction of politics via the ballot box, their treacherous use of the word Parliament in their local assembly, and their disgusting way of forcing the King of England to be a Presbyterian when North of the Border.
Nothing whatsoever to do with a Brexit deal which has made us worse off than we were pre-2016, utterly disastrous management of the United Kingdom during COVID, distain for devolution, elected mayors, the public.
Nope nope nope. It's them pesky Scot Nats.
Well, of course the problems won't "magically" disappear. Making the problems go away requires actual work in government, of the useful kind. The policies of successive Conservative governments over the last 14 years have made these problems worse. A different choice of policies would have made them better. Those Conservative governments had the option to choose constructive, sensible policies, but chose instead to pander to the racists and data-deniers.
The identity of the people in office does not alter the problems. It's the things that they actually do that make a difference.
The problem is the definition of danger. Splitting the union is not the same as threats from bad actors. Ending the union is not the same as planting bombs
But even I think comparing the breakup of the UK as the result of the Scottish Nationalists winning the argument at the ballot box to the threat posed by Russia or China is bathetic.
Since when they’ve only tacked further left as a result of becoming a home for disgruntled Labour voters.
You don’t need to be a full on Henry Williamson or other proto-Green blood and soil nationalist* to think that a Green Party explicitly of the left is exclusionary.
I’d quite like the Ecology Party back - it felt like a broader church.
*the founders of Britain’s green movement were almost hilariously** right wing
**hilarious these days only because it’s so far from where they’ve ended up today (and to be clear, I absolutely wouldn’t have countenanced voting for them)
I was going back a bit further to the founding of the Soil Association but yes.
My thoughts exactly!
Very clever, And I'm interested to see they still have a dirty tricks department as they did in 1926 (seen something of that).
I'm in what I thought was a safe Tory seat. Now I'll have to rethink things.
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