Michael Carthew

Thank you! Will you post or analyse the results of each of these elections?

I go out of my way to buy recycled toilet roll but it’s hard to find in many supermarkets. Andrex puppies have a large monopoly.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

I would recommend listening to “Live To Live” on the Hazbin Hotel season 2 soundtrack as I think that answers quite a few questions about this if you’re feeling hopeless about it. And then also the first 20 seconds of Here my Hope to avoid spoilers

I would recommend listening to “Live To Live” on the Hazbin Hotel season 2 soundtrack as I think that answers quite a few questions about this if you’re feeling hopeless about it.

Only 3 votes in it!

3 votes

Reform won by 3 votes if you’ve ever thought your vote doesn’t count before then it certainly does!

I thought the ending was beautiful and it made me cry.

This is very unlikely as Transphobia doesn’t tend to swing an election. It all depends on how organised each local party is and we saw that Trafford conservatives were more organised than many other local parties as they gained a seat from labour last month too.

@craigburley.com @thatelizabeth.bsky.social Did you guys get washed or deserved to lose here?

a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding at an awards ceremony . ALT: a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding at an awards ceremony .

I need to process that but I wanna give Viv and the whole team a huge round of applause!!! 👏

That whole finale was the sickest thing I’ve ever seen

That’s essential infrastructure that will allow us to stop relying on fossil fuels as much. In the long term it will be very beneficial to the area bringing thousands of jobs and loads of energy without air pollution to the UK.

People never want change initially even if it’s beneficial in the long term.The choice for local parties is to oppose it for short term gain for them but long term pain for the people going without the jobs or houses new developments bring.

I’m happy they took the unpopular choice for the long term

NIMBY campaigns are almost always short term gain for long term pain. I’m not involved in this local party. I’m saying it’s not a moral victory to oppose a development that would benefit the community in the long term with more jobs. All parties are guilty of this sometimes.

I’m not saying it wasn’t with the residents and the vote collapsed because the Lib Dems didn’t campaign just like the greens didn’t in Spelthorne or Devon when we gained seats from them recently. Residents are against change initially but get used to it over time and will enjoy the benefits of it.

It’s not sour grapes I’m explaining how the Greens won by opposition to something that will bring jobs and growth to the area. The Lib Dems didn’t do anything to win this seat just like the greens didn’t in Spelthorne or Devon when we gained seats from them over the past few weeks.

I said it like that because I can’t speak for the whole Lib Dem party though most would agree with me.

The problem with the Green party in a nutshell - they aren’t green.

The bold action for huge housing costs is to build more housing everywhere!

The bold action to reduce energy costs is to build more renewable energy everywhere!

Your party is making both of these more difficult and expensive by not looking at the science or thinking long term! You are blocking it!

Green fields aren’t green if they’re industrial farmland. Solar farms can also be built while livestock or crops can grow underneath them as multi use.

Yes so your party agrees with me on that but the problem is that you’re so averse to using one natural desert field to build housing, businesses or solar farms on when if you did that and then rewilded another nearby field it would be much better for nature than leaving 2 natural desert fields.

It’s much better than nothing, all homes help the housing ladder because older families move into larger houses, freeing up smaller houses for younger families. We should have more dense affordable brownfield housing but if there is a green Cllr in that area they’re probably against that too.

We have 80% of our countryside in this country left. Most of it is industrial farmland which holds no natural areas other than hedgerows and woods dotted around here and there. If you want to help nature you need rewilding of farmers fields which is possible and something that should be pursued.

At the moment it is nuclear vs fossil fuels until the renewable technology is developed in future that makes it possible to produce as much energy as nuclear or fossil fuels.

And your party keep making renewable energy harder to build and more expensive because you don’t want it near you!

Lib Dem MPs have already introduced a bill that the government picked up and made sure that all new build homes will have solar panels on by 2026.

You have to think in the long term. Building nuclear in the long term helps nature because we don’t have the air pollution from oil and gas burning.

Yes because they need water and “changing the character of an area” is what happened in all cities and new towns which used to be fields and forests and I’m sure people don’t want to knock them all down. Building them reduces pollution from fossil fuels and they produce far less than they do.

Nuclear is the only viable alternative to the use of imported oil and gas until we can build loads of solar farms wind farms and pylons that your party is blocking. They are much safer and green ideological opposition to them just boosts fossil fuels. France has loads of them and they work well.

All you’re doing is increasing the costs of those things and making them far less viable. There is such a huge amount of industrial farmland that is used just to feed livestock and are deserts for nature. 20% of the UK is built on. You are helping fossil fuels by making these projects cost so much!