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

Dear @ShabanaMahmood,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

"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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