The Tories wants to criminalise carers who have the temerity of working in Tescos on the weekend and infringe their weekly earnings cliff edge by somewhere between 50p and £3.
These are people working very low paid jobs to keep the wolf from the door and have a chance to talk to other humans outside of their caring responsibilities.
Why is limit so low and always assumption of deceit?
@JugglingWithEggs the performative cruelty is the point, as Ken Loach once pointed out
I’ve worked a lifetime in roles which have had regular interaction with the benefits system and the levels of Kafkaesque nastiness and deliberate incompetence are political choices
#tories and #labour have long spread the narrative that poverty is a personal failing. That ideology requires a level of punishment
Only the #greens offer an evidence-based approach - universal basic income
#GreenParty sees chance of second MP as Labour voters waver in Bristol
Poll predicts Green co-leader Carla Denyer will win in new #Bristol Central seat by siphoning off votes from disillusioned left
@proseandpassion Great news, and #Starmer's direction of travel - rightwards, ever rightwards - will reinforce that move to the #greens
With Starmer seemingly determined to piss-off as many people as possible who are not supporters of #austerity, #privatisation or #genocide, I look forward to many more green councillors and MPs
The tragedy of the #nuclear phaseout in Germany in two graphs. Had the Germans remained rational after the Chernobyl and Fukushima incidents and remained building new nuclear at the pace of the first buildout period, it would now be the cleanest grid of all OECD countries.
This tragedy added a lot to climate change and killed millions of Germans due to unnecessary air pollution.
The link between Greens and Nazism are a bit more complex. It’s not a simple Nazis ⇒ Greens inheritance but more of shared ancestors between these two movements in anti-bourgeois sentiment coupled with cult of “nature”, “simple life”, “return to origins” etc. In case of #Germany all of the latter were systematised in “antroposophy” movement that predates Nazism:
So the relation is more like “Nazis ⇐ Antroposophy ⇒ Greens”.
This is also the reason for widespread popularity of pseudo-science and alt-med such as homeopathy, “nature-therapies” etc in Germany and other countries of the region (Austria, Switzerland). Not surprisingly, #antroposophy ideologues are also anti-nuclear as it triggers most of their taboos (large “bourgeois” projects, “unnatural energy” etc).
Of course, all of these operate at irrational and emotional layer and have nothing to do with reality because you if you start taking a PV or wind turbine apart you will find just as much “unnatural” technology inside as in a nuclear reactor. This also explains apparent paradoxes such as coexistence of fierce anti-nuclear movement and widespread radiophobia and radon spa therapies in Germany and Austria at the same time - emotionally, the former are perceived “unnatural” but the latter is perceived as “natural” thus healthy.
The other week I bought a whole tray of tinned Fried Mackerel in XO Sauce. Today we had two tins between the three of us; it’s such a powerhouse tastewise, you don’t need a lot at all to spice up your rice. The rice was takikomi gohan, rice cooked with seasoning and vegetables. I used carrot and kohlrabi. The latter still had leaves that looked edible so I put them on top of the other vegetables in the saucepan to steam them.
There was more green stuff to garnish the meal, the always required spring onion and on top of that I had foraged wild garlic this morning. I’m on a mission with greens, I want to try even more. A lot of them are full of vitamins, so why do we disrespect them so much?
Oh and I bought a little plate to grate ginger on, it’s perfect. 😍
Five years ago the LNP was distributing this kind of rubbish about the Labor party.
This year, for the local qld elections, they're targeting the Greens.
I will take it as a compliment,.
Many people have been disappointed by the watered-down climate and social policies of the Labor party and want to see real change.