https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/chelsea-flower-show-hebt-gartenzwergverbot-auf-100.html

#tabakLobby #Lobbyist #gartenzwerg #albig #verzwergung #spd #gartenzwerge #blumenschau #dlf

We’ve watched the #LNP shoot itself in the foot, twice in both feet and redoubling its effort to dig its own grave. Now we’re being presented with a #Labor party apparently intent on following suite. #Unions and #LaborHeartland must be seething in frustration approaching outright anger by now.

I’ve been there and I’m not looking back. For me #Labor has lost its way, completely, maybe beyond salvage. The following is just furhter proof of it.

“There’s a tell when a politician has been captured by an industry lobby. The language shifts. The carefully prepared lines about “existing contracts,” “investment certainty,” and “there’s already a tax, actually” start flowing out with the smoothness of a media brief, because that’s exactly what they are. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on all evidence appears to have been captured. So has Resources Minister Madeleine King.”

Read more:
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260520-blink-twice-if-you-need-help-prime-minister

#AusPol #Lobbyist #ExtractiveIndustries #FossilFuel #GasGrifters #TaxReform #TaxTheRich #Antifa #AntiOligarchy #JoinYourUnion

The Self-Lobbyist

So how did citizens lobby their government before the lobby industry?

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=178

The good old days weren't that good.

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#lobby #lobbyist #lobbying

Ist Gerhard #Schröder überhaupt noch ein #Politiker, oder ist der #Putin-Freund ein #Lobbyist? Der Vorstoß von #Putin, ihn zum Vermittler im #Ukraine-Krieg zu machen ist wohl nur ein weiteres Spielchen.

https://www.l-iz.de/politik/europa/2026/05/kommentar-putins-spielchen-jetzt-will-er-gerhard-schroder-verhandlungsfuhrer-europaer-656827