From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

They say you can never go home again, but if I think of my hometown of
Bristol rCo and my adopted hometown of Brighton and Hove rCo the
similarities are striking. The rise of the Green Party has much to do
with this. When I was growing up in the beautiful, but quiet, West
Country city in the 1960s and 1970s, I couldnrCOt wait to escape to
somewhere buzzier. Well, they say be careful what you wish for. Now the
two cities share rCyprogressiverCO politics of the most regressive kind;
that distinctive Veruca-Salt-joins-the-Stasi brand which is obsessed
with the evil of Israel and the transcendent wonder of rCytrans.rCO Voters
in Gorton and Denton who helped the Green party win its first
by-election this week will come to regret what theyrCOve done.

ItrCOs funny to think that Friends Of The Earth were once considered quite rCyout thererCO; the Greens, with their crazed support for Net Zero,
sometimes appear to believe that the ideal lifestyle should be lived by candlelight, in a cave, cross-dressing, puffing on the crack-pipe and
yelling rCyAllahu Akhbar!rCO on a regular basis.

The recent alliance between the anything-goes Greens (led by the Jewish
Zack Polanski, as he never fails to remind us so he canrCOt be accused of being anti-Semitic. Has he never heard of Karl Marx?) and
hyper-reactionary Islamism, is one of those outlandish things which
would have stood out like a sore thumb a decade ago, but now just seems
like a natural part of the whole crazy paving that the modern world has
been tarmacked over with. Gorton and Denton has a high Muslim
population, so the triumph of the Greens does not come as a surprise. It
is, however, a shock of the seismic kind.

When I moved to Brighton in 1995, it was still a happy-go-lucky place
full of people who were no better than they should be, whooping it up.
Then, in 2011, the Greens became the largest party on the council for
the first time, leading a minority administration until 2015. They were
back again in 2020, until Labour took over in 2023. It was plenty long
enough for them to make a right dogrCOs breakfast of this once-fair city
by the sea.

Many parts of our country look what I think of as rCypost-hoperCO. But thererCOs a special scruffiness which seems to glory in itself rather than look crestfallen that you get where the Greens are strongest. You can
tell they think theyrCOre rCyre-wildingrCO like in The Archers, because being tidy is probably rCyracistrCO; what it meant in reality here was not getting the rubbish collected because of strikes rCo and streets overgrown with weeds.

There was a right royal ruckus when Labour got back in and voted to reintroduce the chemical glyphosate (banned after it was linked to a
decline in bees), with the Greens pointing out that Labour had brought
in the ban themselves. But the new local overlords werenrCOt having any;
as Labour councillor Tim Rowkins, chair of the environment committee,
pointed out of the Triffid-like damage wrought by Mother Nature: rCyWe
have a backlog of repairs totalling -u60millionrCauncontrolled weed growth
is one of the primary causes of damage to our pavementsrCawe currently
spend -u50,000 a month on reactive repairs to pavementsrCa.parts of the
city are completely wild and many of our residents rCo wheelchair users, parents and carers with buggies, those with visual or mobility
impairments rCo simply canrCOt travel the distance of their own street safely.rCO

Like George Monbiot with his crazed ranting about mild-mannered sheep
being rCythe white plaguerCO you sometimes get the feeling that Greens feel that we pesky humans are little more than a blot on the landscape,
unless werCOve subscribed to their nutty manifesto and thereby done our penance. (An exception was the construction of the extremely modernistic
and phallic i360 seafront tower rCo -u48 million down the dunny.)

On other issues, you couldnrCOt get a Rizla paper between Labour and the Greens. Both conduct/ed a major war against cars, making parking
prohibitive, ruinous for a town wishing to attract day-trippers. If the
plan is to deter visitors, itrCOs certainly worked, with the historic
Palace Pier looking for a buyer due to low footfall.

The cyclist is king here, even though so many are clowns; a fortune has
been spent on cycle lanes but many of these inadequate men still ride
bikes the size of motorbikes on the pavements. Hove seafront, once so
lovely, looks like a bomb has hit it, with broken railings and rusted shelters; rCytent citiesrCO and caravan convoys are a constant eyesore, the council letting them get away with it in case they be accused of being
unfair to rCytravellers.rCO

Bella Sankey, leader of the Labour council, is very keen on the phrase
rCyCity of SanctuaryrCO which translates to very Green rCyLet rCyem all in!rCO.
rCyBrighton and Hove is no place for haterCO is another phrase you hear a
lot of round here, which always makes me wonder where those who insist
on it is a place for hate. Worthing, perhaps, or Goring-by-sea?

There certainly seems to be a place for hating Jews here; our tiny
community will be getting even smaller this year, as several I know are currently planning their move to Israel, due to the repeated destruction
of hostage memorials last year, and the current sinister campaign
whereby a group calling itself the rCyBrighton and Hove Apartheid-Free
ZonerCO go door to door with clipboards and checklists noting down whether
or not residents boycott Israeli goods; understandably, some Jewish
residents find this a campaign of intimidation. TheyrCOre mostly
student-types cos-playing in keffiyehs; you can bet theyrCOll be voting Green.

Ironically, the Greens took their second turn on the council as Labour
lost their majority when councillors were accused of anti-Semitic social
media posts; the then-leader of the Brighton Labour group, Nancy Platts, issued an apology to the Jewish community, stating the posts brought
rCyshame on the whole Labour Party.rCO

I personally think that one more Green MP rCo bringing their parliamentary presence to a fearsome five, including their leader Carla Denyer who rCyrepresentsrCO Bristol Central rCo is far less to worry about than a Green local council, when the crazies actually get their hands on our cash.

Seeing Keir Starmer beaten by a party which believes in legalising
date-rape drugs must surely hasten his exit, so thatrCOs one good thing
about it. But on the whole, this is a dark day for our baffled,
beleaguered nation, with one more small but sure step for this ultimate coalition of the silly and the sinister.


Julie Burchill
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From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

On 2/27/2026 3:36 AM, Julian wrote:

They say you can never go home again, but if I think of my hometown of Bristol rCo and my adopted hometown of Brighton and Hove rCo the similarities are striking.

Been there and got the t-shirt. As a military brat we visited Bristol on
our way to Cardiff, searching for our roots. Nice place. Call me when
it's finished. We loved touring England in the 60s!

Now we are in California Wine Country. You can't get more green than this!

California is frequently ranked #1 for, or among other things, its high adoption of electric vehicles, solar power, and strict environmental
policies. YMMV.

The rise of the Green Party has much to do
with this. When I was growing up in the beautiful, but quiet, West
Country city in the 1960s and 1970s, I couldnrCOt wait to escape to somewhere buzzier. Well, they say be careful what you wish for. Now the
two cities share rCyprogressiverCO politics of the most regressive kind; that distinctive Veruca-Salt-joins-the-Stasi brand which is obsessed
with the evil of Israel and the transcendent wonder of rCytrans.rCO Voters in Gorton and Denton who helped the Green party win its first by-
election this week will come to regret what theyrCOve done.

ItrCOs funny to think that Friends Of The Earth were once considered quite rCyout thererCO; the Greens, with their crazed support for Net Zero, sometimes appear to believe that the ideal lifestyle should be lived by candlelight, in a cave, cross-dressing, puffing on the crack-pipe and yelling rCyAllahu Akhbar!rCO on a regular basis.

The recent alliance between the anything-goes Greens (led by the Jewish
Zack Polanski, as he never fails to remind us so he canrCOt be accused of being anti-Semitic. Has he never heard of Karl Marx?) and hyper-
reactionary Islamism, is one of those outlandish things which would have stood out like a sore thumb a decade ago, but now just seems like a
natural part of the whole crazy paving that the modern world has been tarmacked over with. Gorton and Denton has a high Muslim population, so
the triumph of the Greens does not come as a surprise. It is, however, a shock of the seismic kind.

When I moved to Brighton in 1995, it was still a happy-go-lucky place
full of people who were no better than they should be, whooping it up.
Then, in 2011, the Greens became the largest party on the council for
the first time, leading a minority administration until 2015. They were
back again in 2020, until Labour took over in 2023. It was plenty long enough for them to make a right dogrCOs breakfast of this once-fair city
by the sea.

Many parts of our country look what I think of as rCypost-hoperCO. But thererCOs a special scruffiness which seems to glory in itself rather than look crestfallen that you get where the Greens are strongest. You can
tell they think theyrCOre rCyre-wildingrCO like in The Archers, because being
tidy is probably rCyracistrCO; what it meant in reality here was not getting the rubbish collected because of strikes rCo and streets overgrown with weeds.

There was a right royal ruckus when Labour got back in and voted to reintroduce the chemical glyphosate (banned after it was linked to a
decline in bees), with the Greens pointing out that Labour had brought
in the ban themselves. But the new local overlords werenrCOt having any;
as Labour councillor Tim Rowkins, chair of the environment committee, pointed out of the Triffid-like damage wrought by Mother Nature: rCyWe
have a backlog of repairs totalling -u60millionrCauncontrolled weed growth is one of the primary causes of damage to our pavementsrCawe currently
spend -u50,000 a month on reactive repairs to pavementsrCa.parts of the
city are completely wild and many of our residents rCo wheelchair users, parents and carers with buggies, those with visual or mobility
impairments rCo simply canrCOt travel the distance of their own street safely.rCO

Like George Monbiot with his crazed ranting about mild-mannered sheep
being rCythe white plaguerCO you sometimes get the feeling that Greens feel that we pesky humans are little more than a blot on the landscape,
unless werCOve subscribed to their nutty manifesto and thereby done our penance. (An exception was the construction of the extremely modernistic
and phallic i360 seafront tower rCo -u48 million down the dunny.)

On other issues, you couldnrCOt get a Rizla paper between Labour and the Greens. Both conduct/ed a major war against cars, making parking prohibitive, ruinous for a town wishing to attract day-trippers. If the
plan is to deter visitors, itrCOs certainly worked, with the historic
Palace Pier looking for a buyer due to low footfall.

The cyclist is king here, even though so many are clowns; a fortune has
been spent on cycle lanes but many of these inadequate men still ride
bikes the size of motorbikes on the pavements. Hove seafront, once so lovely, looks like a bomb has hit it, with broken railings and rusted shelters; rCytent citiesrCO and caravan convoys are a constant eyesore, the council letting them get away with it in case they be accused of being unfair to rCytravellers.rCO

Bella Sankey, leader of the Labour council, is very keen on the phrase rCyCity of SanctuaryrCO which translates to very Green rCyLet rCyem all in!rCO.
rCyBrighton and Hove is no place for haterCO is another phrase you hear a lot of round here, which always makes me wonder where those who insist
on it is a place for hate. Worthing, perhaps, or Goring-by-sea?

There certainly seems to be a place for hating Jews here; our tiny
community will be getting even smaller this year, as several I know are currently planning their move to Israel, due to the repeated destruction
of hostage memorials last year, and the current sinister campaign
whereby a group calling itself the rCyBrighton and Hove Apartheid-Free ZonerCO go door to door with clipboards and checklists noting down whether or not residents boycott Israeli goods; understandably, some Jewish residents find this a campaign of intimidation. TheyrCOre mostly student- types cos-playing in keffiyehs; you can bet theyrCOll be voting Green.

Ironically, the Greens took their second turn on the council as Labour
lost their majority when councillors were accused of anti-Semitic social media posts; the then-leader of the Brighton Labour group, Nancy Platts, issued an apology to the Jewish community, stating the posts brought rCyshame on the whole Labour Party.rCO

I personally think that one more Green MP rCo bringing their parliamentary presence to a fearsome five, including their leader Carla Denyer who rCyrepresentsrCO Bristol Central rCo is far less to worry about than a Green local council, when the crazies actually get their hands on our cash.

Seeing Keir Starmer beaten by a party which believes in legalising date- rape drugs must surely hasten his exit, so thatrCOs one good thing about
it. But on the whole, this is a dark day for our baffled, beleaguered nation, with one more small but sure step for this ultimate coalition of
the silly and the sinister.

Julie Burchill

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