Michael
Lilly HunterQuite a phenomenal campaign ad from the Greens down in England. Strong. I firmly believe that any political party not running this same message will fail.
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flarion@LaChasseuse that's surprisingly powerful.
08/15 R.I.P. Natenom🖤@LaChasseuse And it is the truth all around the world: for UK, EU, Japan, Korea, USA, Argentina, ...
Wm.sonIf any party tailored that to run in the US, what kind of traction do you think it'd have?
My guess is, it would be laughed at and roundly ignored.
And THAT'S a damn shame.
Virginicus@Sfwmson In Virginia, the Green Party was taken over by con men.
f*cking b*tch club@Sfwmson @OhWeh @LaChasseuse I disagree. Newly inaugurated NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran on much of that platform. He promised a rent freeze, free buses, and free childcare. He’s already gotten the childcare part done! (in his first 2 weeks…)
I believe younger candidates and younger voters are going to change the political landscape pretty much everywhere.
@grammasaurus @OhWeh @LaChasseuse
I really really hope so.
I'm 65 and back in the day I figured the hippie generation would change the world... But they didn't.
@Sfwmson The hippies got usurped by the disco/yuppie culture. That's really the time point when every normal person started getting poorer as money was funnelled upwards.
Sharon McCarthy@LaChasseuse @Sfwmson @grammasaurus @OhWeh which coincided with the election of Reagan and trickle down economics. On the heels of that, cable and reality TV set in. Finally, social media taught everyone we don’t have values, we are a brand —
@Sfwmson The culture segment in the US that has historically, and also now, made statements about the grind Polanski is detailing has been musicians. Of all colours. An unfortunate aspect of the American mind, however, is to see being 'down and out' as something temporary, missing that it is in fact a feature of the economic and social structures of that country.
wall-e@Sfwmson @OhWeh @LaChasseuse depends on where/how they'd run.
Debuting at a presidential election? Yes.
Starting in mayoral races and state governments? They'd definitely be able to build grassroots support and gain a strong base across all states, without which a presidential election run would be pointless at best and detrimental at worst
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@LaChasseuse oh, well said.
sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞Nice one!
Bodhipaksa@LaChasseuse Brilliant! Stop running and stand together against the billionaires.
Shadow, First of His Name 
@LaChasseuse This is amazing! A+ efforts for running and memorizing speech, at that. How does he do it?
Killa Koala
John E. Bartley, III (D) K7AAY@darkpixel @LaChasseuse Multiple takes, edited together.
Tim Panton@darkpixel @LaChasseuse He's a former actor.
@steely_glint So is Zelensky. What's your point?
@LaChasseuse Sorry I was answering @darkpixel 's question about running and remembering his lines at the same time.
@steely_glint My apologies. Sometimes one gets lost in the threads! @darkpixel
GutterPoetrySuch an uplifting message and MHNA is such a great contrast to MAGA!!
I'm relieved to hear a voice of sanity in mainstream UK politics!!
Great marketing there, video very well done, kudos to the marketing team.
Molly in MissouriAnd vote for the best candidate available to you-- there's a reason they spend money suppressing the vote. @GutterPoetry @LaChasseuse
@LaChasseuse that's true everywhere, huh? We just need to STOP and practice our right of refusal
MegatronicThronBanks@megatronicthronbanks @LaChasseuse perhaps not BREXIT as sold but BREXIT as 'negotiated' by those who were anti it for sure.
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Debbie@EF @megatronicthronbanks @LaChasseuse
I'd like to disagree with you about this.
The person in charge of Brexit in the end was Boris Johnson who was one of the prominent people campaigning for Brexit. He campaigned on an oven ready deal that made him our prime minister with a HUGE majority. No opposition.
The top people leading the negotiations were all pro brexit people. They went in super confident thinking they held all the negotiating cards. The UK also chose to "put pressure on the EU" by triggering article 51.
I know a lot of Brexiters are saying that its the wrong type of Brexit but this is exactly was they wanted. We have left the EU with a minimal trade deal.
@debbie @megatronicthronbanks @LaChasseuse deeds speak louder than words.
Would add, not sure anyone expected Leave to win.
@EF They really didn't expect Leave to win, especially not Cameron, who called the referendum to appease UKIP. Having attached a lame, poorly promoted referendum on proportional representation onto a general election ballot, and having it fail as he wished, he assumed the same would hold true for Brexit. He hadn't reckoned with the offshore money people dumping millions into a facebook-led dirty campaign for Leave.
Andrew@LaChasseuse
Powerful message
Powerful message
Holger HellingerZack Polanski speaking in the video talks about the work and commitment of ordinary people to this cause. As he does so, he runs faster and faster, with the camera repeatedly focusing on his trainers. He runs through scenes of an English town and eventually, unable to run any faster, he stops and says that we need this reset. He then explains how.
Source: with Transcript
https://youtu.be/bF_a_w7Dozo
How We Make Hope Normal Again- Green Party Political Broadcast
Mr E McKissock@holger Ohhh, thank you! I couldn't figure out if one could add an alt text to a video, so this was very helpful. 🙏🏼
Angela Miller@holger @LaChasseuse
That's a very well put together piece of film with a very strong and simple message. Let's hope it resonates with a lot of people.
That's a very well put together piece of film with a very strong and simple message. Let's hope it resonates with a lot of people.
PaulaToThePeople 😷@LaChasseuse #AltForYou:
Video of a guy talking while moving. First he talks about how everything feels overwhelming and you have to move fast to stay where you are economically while he walks. Then he talks about bigger, more systemic problems and that, to keep up, you have to move faster, while he runs. Then he tells us to stop running and see the bigger picture. He stops running, moves slowly and pants, while he says that all the wealth we create goes to the pockets of the super rich, which is a political failure and obscene. He says we have to elect leaders that serve the people, communities and nature, not the pockets of the obscenely rich. He ends with the slogan "make hope normal again".
Steven Lawson Photography@LaChasseuse Damn, that's effective and absolutely spot-on. I'm voting Green in Scotland.
Tim Stickland@LaChasseuse
If you are outside the UK, you might not recognise Zak Polanski - recently elected as leader of the UK Green Party.
Great video, strong message.
@LaChasseuse problem is the politicians are puppets of the civil service and the rich. Labour promised a lot and have delivered the opposite.
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫The civil service aren't puppet-masters, they're administrators and workers who try to implement whatever policy, good or bad, the government dictates. They will advise about difficulties, but they are definitely not calling the shots; their advice is frequently ignored.
You can choose politicians who aren't puppets of the rich; that's the point of voting. Most people may not see that choice clearly, but that's the point of campaigning. Hence the video.
Leah Bobet@petealexharris @EF @LaChasseuse Also, as someone who worked in and around politics before jumping to the grassroots side of things?
A thing people weirdly forget about politicians is that they're human beings with subjectivities, blind spots, and just personal limits. They flinch, they sometimes panic, they take shortcuts, they have really normal, run-of-the-mill human failure modes. It's really less frequent that someone is a puppet to a sinister master, and much more common that they're not playing to their strengths on something and bottled it.
@petealexharris @LaChasseuse in the past, yes. Now, it appears the tables have turned and Labour are currently devolving more power to the civil service.
@EF @LaChasseuse
I know people who work in the civil service, and all I can say is that is not what's happening as far as they can tell.
But even if it was, instead of Labour you could vote for a party with progressive policy goals, who would have the civil service implement them, just as previous governments have done with disastrously regressive policies.
I don't think anyone praising this video is planning to vote Labour.
@petealexharris @LaChasseuse am watching my industry get ripped apart by the DfT and the politicans spouting rhetoric claiming the inverse of reality and legislating on those statements. Many many people in the civil service are no doubt trying to make a positive difference but there are some forcing direction for "reasons" that are not always [sic] in the population's best interests.
For the record, I did not and will not vote red or blue.
BashStKid@petealexharris @EF @LaChasseuse I also know a few civil servants, and no, they’re not a grey power behind the throne.
The problem is more subtle; when all the official & unofficial training says ‘find a way to work in partnership with the private sector”, & the private sector is full of friendly people looking to give help and experience and make you look good for the minister, you’ve been captured. And your ideas & the minister’s ideas are the same, because they’re thinking for both of you.
@BashStKid And all three groups went to the same schools.
Luckily, the Greens fall outside that "chummy" parameter and are less likely to be swayed.
Lyndsay Barwell@petealexharris @EF @LaChasseuse In the first past the post system, in some areas it wont make sense to vote green and split the vote. Love this video and would love to vote green but will have to decide closer to election time.
@treehugger @EF @LaChasseuse
Yeah, but split the vote with who? There often won't be another progressive or even principled party running in a lot of seats, from a practical human rights position, so there's no viable lesser of two evils to be content with.
In previous elections that has always been a reasonable argument, but the last one broke the seal. Now we know the greens can win seats. All that can stop that happening is people talking themselves out of it.
@petealexharris @EF @LaChasseuse I know labour have done a lot of not progressive things but that's as left as Cheshire generally goes. I think polls showed reform at around a third recently. From what I've seen of my labour MP, it could be better but he'd be better than reform.
@treehugger @EF @LaChasseuse
I'm 100% in favour of tactical voting to keep the fash out, so no judgement, your vote is your own :)
I'm 100% in favour of tactical voting to keep the fash out, so no judgement, your vote is your own :)
@petealexharris @EF @LaChasseuse I have left the labour party though, I just couldn't keep supporting them, especially as someone with long covid after the whole PIP debacle.
@treehugger Many here in Scotland say "I didn't leave the Labour Party, the Labour Party left me"
@petealexharris The English have to turn out massively and vote Green this time! If nothing else, it will wake up the other parties.
Tattie@petealexharris yeah, "politicians are being controlled by the civil service" is a fucking take 😅
It's like UK politicians have somehow managed to convince everyone that they're the ones with their hands tied, rather than the ones sitting on them.
@EF @LaChasseuse
It's like UK politicians have somehow managed to convince everyone that they're the ones with their hands tied, rather than the ones sitting on them.
@EF @LaChasseuse
@Tattie @EF @LaChasseuse
100% this.
Yeah, for example Tory/UKIP politicians promising leaving the EU would result in things that were legally, practically and even logically impossible was a big part of the Brexit catastrophe, and the civil service weren't forcing them to do that. They were screaming into a pillow because they aren't allowed to oppose government policy politically no matter how stupid and doomed it is.
@petealexharris And then the Conservatives followed weirdo Dom Cummings' "innovative" advice and sacked most of the civil service. Like an early version of DOGE.
@EF The Greens are not puppets.
@LaChasseuse I wish the Greens well because someone/party needs to change politics in the UK and Reform is not the answer.
Simon Brooke@EF @LaChasseuse I think what makes the Greens different is precisely because they are not (yet) funded primarily by the very rich.
They will come under pressure to accept that money. It's much less work to fund raise a million pounds from just one ultra-rich #kleptocrat than from one hundred thousand ordinary people.
We'll see if they can continue to resist; #Labour have signally failed.