@cstross

i'm an american and based on party names

reform shouldn't mean make everything immeasurable worse

and

labour shouldn't mean forced labor for everyone who isn't a millionaire

and yet, here you in the UK have ended up

thank you for waking up and voting Green

@cstross I’m now keeping everything crossed for the Scottish Parliament elections in May. The news media seem to make a lot about this alleged “insurgence of Reform” in Scotland. And I’m not saying that it can’t happen. But I really hope that it won’t.

As a foreigner, I felt that I found refuge when I moved here from England, and even a medium-high vote for Reform would really shake that belief. So, here’s hoping.

@cstross Keir Starmer helped a lot by showing up this week. Is he really so self unaware he doesn't realize how reviled he is, as when Ana's Sarwar asked him not to come to Scotland (which he also ignored)?

Certainly there are members of his government who are to the right of Reform, like Shabana Mahmood.

@cstross I fear The Greens will embrace totalitarianism as readily as Starmer Labour.

@cstross
_Entirely_ without evidence or investigation I incline to suspect he wants to force women to have _his_ babies, and may have already implemented attempts at this.
And is in congenial company in that Party.

(Congeners: blamed for hangovers)

@cstross TBF Labour have lost many local elections in this constituency since 1931.

@cstross makes you wonder who really wants to enforce "Shari'a Law"?

My bad: apparently he was ranting about a "woke progressive and muslim" conspiracy. I forgot the P word, so obviously a dominant factor in English politics over the past seven decades.

@cstross Anyone trying to spin "Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man" (quote taken from elsewhere) as evidence of a Muslim conspiracy deserves every hard time they get.

@cstross I have to say it's really nice to wake up to some positive indicators for a change - at least somewhere in the world. Often my first thoughts on regaining consciousness in the morning are:
-My bladder is going to burst if I stay in bed any longer.
-There is coffee in the other room, but you'll need to get out of bed to make it.
-What fresh hell will I discover if I unlock my phone?

@cstross I love it when the fash claim that "people voting for what they want" is some sort of conspiracy of people ganging up on them. They're *so close* to getting it...

Gorton & Denton was the Green Party's 127th ranked target constituency, implying that on current popularity they'd win at least 127 seats in a general election—but probably more, because their G&D win margin was over 4000 votes, and they've broken out of their normal southern areas. Labour support among muslim voters has collapsed over Starmer's Gaza policy.

And 67% of voters rejected the far right politics of Reform, who got 29% of the vote.

@cstross maybe he's upset that the Muslims are too woke compared to him.

Also Matt Goodwin is nothing but a pound shop Jordan Peterson trying to get on the same grift train.