This isn’t a distraction. Trump will be hurt by this war. This is Israel and AIPAC making use of the Presidency they paid for.

To be fair, the Red Hats are going to be far more opposed to this war than the majority of Democrat politicians, so you may end up having to make common cause.

Yeah, which is why Burnham would’ve been an excellent candidate, because we all know what he thinks and Mancs know it best of all. As for losing the mayoralty, that’s a small risk in the grand scheme of things for Labour, because they look set to lose everything anyway.

To be fair, this could well prove to be a victory for Reform, because Labour and the Greens are just going to assume that this dynamic will play out in seats that are not metropolitan and highly diverse.

And a day is 24hrs, buddy, not 8.

You know what a paragraph is? Because the post you’re replying to is a single line.

… the countryside and sees a human made environment that must be radically changed, whereas a conservationist thinks they’re in nature and so they need to preserve “green spaces”, which is actually a farmer’s field.

I guess that is why the actual councillors who opposed it, like Adlington-Stringer and Hilton, cited the conservation of green spaces for their rejection. As I’ve pointed out to someone else, the difference between a conservationists and an environmentalist is that an environmentalist goes into…

a little girl is wearing a pink pajama top and says thank you . ALT: a little girl is wearing a pink pajama top and says thank you .

But you keep calling!

Also, pretty strange that a joke can be illiterate. I thought a joke was something that one person tells another. I didn’t realise you needed to teach the joke how to read first.

No, this time I’m grinding on the definition of “conservation”. Do you have anything interesting to add?

And the part that was “full of crap” is the part where Polanski tells Labour to search their conscience. It wasn’t about whether the Greens can win a mid-term by-election. They have to win it.

I’d go a step further and say that if the Greens don’t win a by-election in a metropolitan seat at a moment when voters want to send the Govt a message, then they won’t do much at a GE.

Proposals are wonderful, everyone is full of them. So, the Greens are renowned for blocking wind farms and solar farms. How do you reckon that squares with their proposals?

As for the difference between the two, an environmentalist goes into the countryside and they see a human made environment, ie, farms and the like, that needs to be changed. A conservationist goes into the countryside and thinks they’re in the nature, which they must preserve at all costs.

I’d make the further point that a conservationist is different to an environmentalist. There are environmentalists in the Green Party, but the majority of members and voters are conservationists. 2/

Cheers! Very helpful for making my point. You’ll notice that the common theme through the other definitions is the act of preserving the past into the future without radical change. 1/

… both in terms of members and voters, are conservative. That’s why Green councils have a reputation of blocking solar farms and the like. Their voters don’t want the eyesore.
They want the countryside to stay the same.

I’m not talking about ideology. You can be small c conservative, ie, wanting to preserve the past into the future, and have almost any kind of ideology that isn’t radical. I’m not saying that there aren’t radical environmentalists in the party, I’m just saying that more than half the party…

Yes, yes, all very interesting. Now, do you have a point to make or no? Why is conservation not conservative?

A Guinea pig is called such because it resembles a pig according to 16th century European eyes. If you tell me what “conservation” means, we can work out how similar or different it is from “conservative”.

Lovely. So what does “conservation” mean then?

I don’t care about your life story, mate. If you have an argument, make it.

Sure.

What does “conservation” mean?

Exactly.

It is remarkable that the only person who has been prosecuted so far in relation to Epstein is a woman. Yes, she is a depraved woman and what she did seems worse because it was done by a woman, but we’re still short on prosecuted men.

Oh no, war mongers are anxious. How sad.

If you say so, my little bok-drolletjie.

Nah, I went looking for a Polanski post because I knew that I would be inundated with lefties, and I really enjoy sparring.