Richard MurphyMay 7, 2024
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?
The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future
Show threadSimon BrookeMay 7, 2024
@RichardJMurphy the #Greens aren't getting airtime because, as you know, the owners of the British media (and I explicitly include the BBC) see the Greens as a much more serious threat to their status and privilege than #ReformUK.
Show threadRosemarie and Owen KellyMay 7, 2024
@simon_brooke SNP get only negative coverage
Show threadOliMay 8, 2024
@Kellys @simon_brooke when the greens represent the same level of challenge to the status-quo as the #SNP, then then the smears, slurs and negative coverage of #greens will step-up a gear - its already started
Show threadSimon BrookeMay 8, 2024

@OliverNoble @Kellys the #Greens *ought* to be a far bigger challenge to the status quo than the SNP. The SNP want a change in governance structure to less than half a percent of the planet, while leaving corporate interests largely unaffected. The Greens want – and need – and entire overthrow of the global economic system.

#ScottishIndependence
#ClimateEmergency
#IndependenceThatChangesNothingIsWorthNothing

Show threadOliMay 8, 2024

@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

Show threadSimon BrookeMay 8, 2024
@OliverNoble @Kellys This is why I think #ScottishIndependence would be an enormously good thing for the left in #England. If they could look to a country just across the border and speaking very nearly the same language pursuing much more left wing policies (as we would) and succeeding (as I believe we would), it would be easier to persuade folk in England that they deserved those good things too.
Show thread Mélani (Melanie) Bjornsdottir (she, ŝi)May 9, 2024
@simon_brooke @OliverNoble @Kellys it’d drive resentment because indy would cause a larger tory majority
Show threadHighlandLawyer
@melanie @Kellys @simon_brooke @OliverNoble
A common myth but not really; statistically Scottish votes have had sod all impact on the constitution of the Westminster govt since the 1950s. Between 1954 to 2010, only twice (1964 & Feb 1974) have the results from Scotland determined which was the largest party elected at Westminster.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/general-elections-without-scotland-part-1-1945-2010/
May 9, 2024 at 8:40amTusky
Show thread Mélani (Melanie) Bjornsdottir (she, ŝi)May 9, 2024
@HighlandLawyer @Kellys @simon_brooke @OliverNoble ic