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OliverNoble

@OliverNoble@mastodon.world

Quite new to mastodon so blundering about - please be kind!!

socialist (ex labour), chilled, always curious and learning xx
GTTO is one thing but inadequate.... need to GTTO wherever they are and GetSocialistsIn

I may boost random stuff that just seems interesting , my comments may be satirical, or sarcastic

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Lazarou, to random
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"Invading Rafah is our red line" said Western leaders, full of shit

OliverNoble,
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@Lazarou Biden kept talking about Israel not "going after" "population centres" in , as distinct from any current attacks in rafah

ALL of rafah is a "population center" , what a deceitful cretin

OliverNoble, to random
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Its all a bit "day of the triffids" tonight

Damn i've been staring at the sky for an hour

catbuttes, to random
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over Colchester! (It’s a crappy pic grabbed on my phone in the middle of a street)

OliverNoble,
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@catbuttes All my pics looked ok on the phone screen but the saved images were crap - yours are waaay better than mine, congrats (sort of) and thanks for sharing them

Colchester - Essex so very southern bit of England?

Greenseer, to random
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As a Marx might have said, 'I refuse to join any club that would have as a member.'

Unlike a terrible policy held while in Opposition, which can be rationalised away with 'Well they can't change anything now and they need to get elected', or 'They'll be better than they seem once they're in power', there's something about letting such a right-wing, bigoted monster into that crystallises the fact that Labour is truly lost under Starmer

For real

She'll cost them votes

OliverNoble,
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@Greenseer It is a disgusting, unprincipled betrayal of what should be

But the electoral calculus in the head of or his advisers will be this:

"We loses leftwing votes but mainly in areas where we will still win anyway but we pick up votes from a few old racists in marginal seats"

I think its incredibly damaging to long-term and a democratic farce to have an "oppostion" so indistinguishable on policy from the

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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"The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists but for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party, and some fairly unpleasant Free Palestine activists as well."
Peter Mandelson to Matt Chorley on Times Radio, yesterday

OliverNoble,
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@gruff congratulations on the wins
Many more to come hopefully

harshad, to random
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Hydroponics is the bitcoin of agriculture.

It's a science experiment to grow plants on life support, everyone interested should try it, but it's not how we'll feed the world. The energy, maintenance and expertise costs will remain not worth it until life support is the only way left to grow plants.

We're still far from that, and, growing plants and trees in the ground will nudge the chance of worsening climate further away.

OliverNoble,
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@wormerama @harshad I saw some modern agriculture described as:

"A solar powered chemical factory"

Thats maybe generous given the quantity of fossil fuel and fossil fuel derived products used

gruff, to random
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Astonishing police failures for a woman who felt threatened by a fake police officer.

"I immediately thought of Wayne Couzens and David Carrick. I was genuinely frightened. I was shaking. I was gripping the steering wheel."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck7l8ey1v33o

OliverNoble,
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@gruff does anyone remember the women who were arrested and charged for impersonating a police officer

Part of a protest years ago (could be in brighton)

I keep looking for the link but cant find it - anyway, in no wat would they ever be mistaken for cops, but CPS took the case anyway

RichardJMurphy, to random
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The Greens were the biggest winners in the local elections, so why aren’t they getting fair air time? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/07/the-greens-were-the-biggest-winners-in-the-local-elections-so-why-arent-they-getting-fair-air-time/
Proportionately, the Greens won most seats at the recent local elections, but they are denied airtime, and we get Reform instead. Why?

OliverNoble,
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@Kellys @simon_brooke when the greens represent the same level of challenge to the status-quo as the , then then the smears, slurs and negative coverage of will step-up a gear - its already started

OliverNoble,
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@simon_brooke @Kellys very true, i should maybe have said they perceive the #SNP as a more immediate threat to the status-quo

In part because, although it is hardly reported and the Scottish parliament has limited powers, Scotland has lead on no fault evictions, nationalising rail, settling NHS pay etc - nothing very radical but if the people of #England saw how achievable things are, they might look at the "opposition" and start demanding something better

OliverNoble,
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@simon_brooke @Kellys 100℅ agree,

Given how poor and negative reporting about Scotland is, it might take a while for the English to notice but, in time, it would become incredibly obvious

it would be inspiring to the left to see Scotland achieve its potential once free to determine its own destiny

OliverNoble,
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@steviesyerda @simon_brooke @Kellys
Would the loss of Scotland from tbe union really lead to a rethink of England's place in the world? It should - but I think there will be a lot of this (below) for years and years:

"England doesn't need a "modern sense of self", we got churchill, England won the war (and world cup), got the royal family, the mother of parliaments, beer sold in pints, the SAS and Ross Kemp, we got ev'ry fing wot is worth 'avin"

OliverNoble,
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@steviesyerda @simon_brooke @Kellys
I had never thought of the union jack changing - that would be a constant, unavoidable and jarring change - especially now that the flag seems to fly continuously over all government and local government buildings

I bet England would still use the full union flag if they could and just pretend nothing changed - its the English way

Great idea though, if i was any good at graphics i would make a mock-up of it just for lols

Peternimmo, to Scotland
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John will be the next of , after activist Graeme McCormick drops out of the leadership race







https://bylines.scot/politics/nomination-to-the-snp-leadership-graeme-mccormick/?feed_id=1138&_unique_id=6637f19c85b58

OliverNoble,
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@Peternimmo so definitely no ?
That cant happen now?

liverpoolrichard, to UKpolitics
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Mark Pack 🔶
@markpack
Cumulative seat change at May local elections in this Parliament:

Lib Dem: +768
Labour: +545
Green: +480
Conservative: -1,783

OliverNoble,
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@Jennifer @liverpoolrichard sadly no,
These are for local government positions, region mayors and regional police commissioners ( renamed something else)

The elections are only in some parts of England (not Scotland or Wales or northern Ireland IIRC)

There is no impact on the UK government other than confirming their parties unpopularity

National elections (aka general election) is happening sometime within next 7 months

Thanks for your interest in our archaic undemocratic arrangements!

Lazarou, to UKpolitics
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Labour being their arrogant selves as always....

OliverNoble,
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@Lazarou "meet the mood for change".... with a stubborn refusal to change anything much

therightarticle, to random
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Oh dear! Britain First in meltdown after LOSING to Count Binface | https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/britain-first-count-binface-how-many-votes-london-mayor-elections-374066/

OliverNoble,
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@therightarticle "the bin took out the trash"

Congratulations to

(from the comment section of the linked article)

randahl, to random
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Britain used to have the most polluted beaches in the EU, because UK sewage is led via channels directly into the sea.

Fortunately, UK politicians have now solved the problem… by leaving the EU, so the country does now show up in environmental statistics.

But the problem is now even worse in the UK.

https://edition.cnn.com/england-uk-sewage-poop-beach/index.html

OliverNoble,
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@randahl England used to have ships regularly taking sewage sludge down rivers, into the sea to dump it and that was terrible

  • Now we dont need the ships, gravity does the same job - such an efficient , market-based, solution - a triumph of privatisation
DigitalTaoist, to random
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Is it Keir? Is it really that time? I could be mistaken but didn't this fraud spout some bollocks about unity and broad churches before? It was right before he started purging socialists from Labour, if memory serves...

OliverNoble, (edited )
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@DigitalTaoist labour is for everyone.....

everyone who condones war crimes and genocide, likes politicians to lie, supports austerity and wants NHS budgets diverted to private companies

If ends division in the UK, the same way he promoted unity in the labour party by expelling people, the UK will be a much emptier place

What a tool

RosePuckey, to Help
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A little while ago there was a meme with a dad kicking the boyfriend of his daughter out of the house for being a MS teams developer.

Does anyone have a copy please? My friend's son is moaning about teams...

OliverNoble,
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@RosePuckey boosting for reach....and out of sympathy
is grim

Roadwarrior29, to random
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There is some irony at listening to Starmer urging an election to "Let the people decide", the same Starmer who does not recognise Scotland's right to have a referendum to "Let the people decide". Yes, indeed, we had one in 2014 but materially, the UK has changed. We have elections every five years yet Scotland is continually denied democracy by, in effect, a foreign country, England. Is the union voluntary, yes it is, how then does Scotland leave ?

OliverNoble,
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@fkamiah17 @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @Roadwarrior29 to paraphrase "we were just a bit late issuing a correction and didnt back the first vote"

have been worse than at calling out war crimes and have never called for a ceasefire that wasnt subject to veto

Delisional, lying, gas-lighting twats

JackTheCat, to random
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Shock analysis says Labour will FAIL to win a majority at election | The National

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24298817.shock-analysis-says-labour-will-fail-win-majority-election/

OliverNoble,
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@JackTheCat A huge extrapolation from very limited data, but interesting

Andy_European, to random
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Surge in Covid cases prompt fears of a mini-wave

https://apple.news/A8eyMVOzWRGCkxpRJs1F9DA

OliverNoble,
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@Andy_European @lappenjammer @transponderings no messing about with baggy-blues -bring on the ffp2 or ffp3, good plan

Andy_European, to random
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Once the hoo-haa settles on local elections (that no-one in Scotland voted in — slight problem when you’re feverishly trying to extrapolate piss poor turn out into a General Election results map, eh?) even Beth Rigby is sounding crestfallen that Starmer has fucked up her chance to break a ‘landslide for our times’ prediction.

Starmer could still piss away the General Election. He’s so awful no one’s actively running too him — he’s winning because the Tories are staying home or voting Lunatic.

OliverNoble,
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@Andy_European I agree with the analysis that says will really struggle with both turn-out and rejection of his gaza 'policy' among other failings

However, extrapolating from an English local election (in some areas only) to a general election is a huge stretch

The lib-dems wont get the same support as they do locally and there will probably be far fewer independents - and turnout will probably still be historically low but higher than thursday

OliverNoble, (edited )
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@Andy_European
will still probably swerve and stagger over the finish-line and win the general election but without much popular support

And, of course, "the lesser of two evils is still evil"

Interesting that less than half of the tory losses went to

jmcrookston, to random
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Influenza (the flu) is transmitted via aerosols. Here are a bunch of references that influenza is airborne.

https://its-airborne.org/flu-timeline#event-evidence-that-flu-is-airborne

OliverNoble,
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@jmcrookston Ebola is not in the air here or anywhere unless you are flinging body fluids around

Plenty of airborne killers around but thankfully isnt one

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