Randahl FinkMay 5, 2024

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

Show threadThe Animal and the MachineMay 5, 2024

@randahl
We get a lot of “it’s too complicated to solve… to expensive” and I want to slap them silly!

Polluted rivers and beaches cost us more!

Show threadRandahl Fink
@taatm I wonder if the UK could have a green revolution like Denmark experienced with the party called The Alternative. They had a landslide election in 2015 and got 9 seats in parliament, because other parties have been asleep for decades. Now every party wants to be the green party, which is a good thing.
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Show threadBruno NicolettiMay 5, 2024
@randahl @taatm First past the post voting makes it extraordinarily difficult for candidates outside of the main parties to be elected.
Show threadThe Animal and the MachineMay 5, 2024

@randahl I think it’s possible for Green to become a protest vote instead of Lib Dem’s. Frustratingly, past governments that should have, did not bring in preferential voting, so you vote under basically a two party system.

You vote for a main party to stop ‘the other lot’ from getting in. Anything in the liberal spectrum dilutes the left vote and lets the right in and visa versa.

It would take some charisma to change this.