Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

"We will continue to warn of the risk the Greens pose", says man who lied his way to power. 🙄

His party's lies helped them lose the #byelection.

Quotation from Keir #Starmer's 27 February 2026 letter to MPs, at https://leftfootforward.org/2026/02/read-keir-starmers-letter-to-labour-mps-in-full-after-gorton-and-denton-by-election-defeat/ / https://archive.is/nKb0B

The so-called "#LabourParty" fought a very dirty campaign in #GortonAndDenton. They lost heavily, but they haven't cleaned up their act.

#ukpol #GreenParty #GPEW #pinocchio

So Josh Simons, who has now resigned in the wake of revelations about his attempt to smear journalists who had looked into the funding of his think-tank (so-called) Labour Together & tried to get the security services to look at them, has not (according to Laurie Magnus) broken the (again, so-called) Ministerial Code.

What would you have to do I wonder for Magnus to find that the code has indeed been broken?

The code's vagueness itself is contributing to the disrepute of politics!

#politics

Of the lessons that can be drawn from Mamdani’s campaign and now Mayoralty, one of them is talking about (and delivering) the efficient, high-quality public services that well-run, well-resourced government can provide.

We see time and time again that getting the “market” to deliver what the state should provide results in over-paying for substandard services. Or being unable to deliver anything at all — Auckland’s light rail and Kiwibuild being prime examples.

The state can, and should, have the capacity to plan, deliver, and maintain the high-quality infrastructure and services that modern life demands.

“Maintenance is always cheaper than repair, and one of the main differences between a business and a government is that a business's shareholders can starve maintenance budgets, cash out, and leave the collapsing firm behind them, while governments must think about the long term consequences of short-term thinking”

H/t to @pluralistic

#nzpol

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/mamdani-thought/#public-excellence

There are 11 million ppl who live on Cuba.

Currently, Trump has decided they should not receive any oil

Their entire country's economy is being shut down because it can not produce sufficient electricity

No one is talking about this on this on the Internet, but you can if you copy this message xx

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https://www.dw.com/en/cuba-oil-fuel-embargo-economy-crisis-united-states-trump-venezuela/a-75849429

That over-reliance on a heavily-subsidised technology controlled by companies actively aiding a dictatorship isn't seen as a strategic risk by engineering leaders is baffling.

#Worldcup2026 anyone? 😎

#usa #Worldcup #travel

Suella Braverman was made the 'skills spokesperson' by an idiot who holds a geography A level

Suelle is so inept she was twice ousted as Home Secretary - once by Liz Truss of all people, for leaking sensitive documents and once by Rishi Sunak for going to war with the police.

Unskilled, may be a better epithet

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First they came for the intellectuals https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/18/first-they-came-for-the-intellectuals/ Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain party is promising to sweep 'Anti-British", "anti-white" elements out of our universities and schools. Doing so, he is copying the Nazi playbook of 1933. If you're not worried now, you should be.

Outlook goes out of its way to give me daily reminders of how awful it is

VERY important: do NOT give Discord this information. DO NOT. It goes to multiple third-parties, who link it to a lot of sensitive personal information, and more than one of has already leaked people's PII. They also have lied multiple times about selfie verification not leaving your computer and deleting images of sensitive IDs.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

Just so its clear: data centres are not "critical infrastructure".

They are Mystery Factories that can perform computation for any digital output: from crypto scams, to hospital databases, to on-demand child abuse material, reams of unstoppable generated slop content, telemetry for helicopters.....shoving that all under one single, broad and politically-charged label opens the door to wasteful, harmful and environmentally harmful behaviour.

I called it. I fucking called it https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/pwc_ai_ceo_survey/

Dear Vladimir, please send one million Russians to dilute Palestinian presence. Yours, Ehud

(recordings, courtesy Epstein files)

Fmr PM Barak also "disparaged Jews who arrived from Arab & Muslim countries after the creation of Israel in 1948, saying Israel can now be 'selective'."

"Israel’s Ashkenazi leadership has a long history of looking down on Jews from the Arab & Muslim world, often treating them as inferior."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/epstein-files-ex-israeli-pm-urged-putin-send-one-more-million-russians-israel

#USPol #EUPol #CdnPoli #palestine #Racism #News .

Ooh oooh, it's New Model Day! New Model Day everybody! Drop what you're doing and start writing your "it's a total game-changer" posts!