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Living in a country where the Greens have had a significant
Parliamentary presence going back decades, it bemuses me to read how earth-shaking it seems for Hannah Spencer to have won the Gordon and
Denton seat in the UK <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/after-byelection-pummelling-britains-prime-minister-faces-growing-pressures-from-right-and-left/6LLIEGHMSZDH3OASYMQDD65SMA/>.

Here in NZ, we have had coalition politics as a matter of course,
going back 30 years now. Multiparty democracy is not a zero-sum game;
the parties learn to cooperate where it suits them to get certain
things done, while still managing to disagree on many matters. Surely
it would be a good thing for the UK to have more of it, not less.

So poor Farage is crying foul, being pipped at the post by the
disaffection with Labour that he was counting on, swinging in
completely the opposite direction, away from him, rather than towards
him, as he was expecting. Diddums.
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From Newsgroup: nz.politics

On 2026-03-01, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Living in a country where the Greens have had a significant
Parliamentary presence going back decades, it bemuses me to read how earth-shaking it seems for Hannah Spencer to have won the Gordon and
Denton seat in the UK
<https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/after-byelection-pummelling-britains-prime-minister-faces-growing-pressures-from-right-and-left/6LLIEGHMSZDH3OASYMQDD65SMA/>.

Here in NZ, we have had coalition politics as a matter of course,
going back 30 years now. Multiparty democracy is not a zero-sum game;
the parties learn to cooperate where it suits them to get certain
things done, while still managing to disagree on many matters. Surely
it would be a good thing for the UK to have more of it, not less.

So poor Farage is crying foul, being pipped at the post by the
disaffection with Labour that he was counting on, swinging in
completely the opposite direction, away from him, rather than towards
him, as he was expecting. Diddums.

First, it is a well known saying that voters do not vote the say way as
would do in a General Election.
Secondly, the UK is disintergrating. The masses are starting to get angry.
This by-election result is a message to the people and to the Government.

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On Sun, 1 Mar 2026 21:19:41 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Living in a country where the Greens have had a significant
Parliamentary presence going back decades, it bemuses me to read how earth-shaking it seems for Hannah Spencer to have won the Gordon and
Denton seat in the UK <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/after-byelection-pummelling-britains-prime-minister-faces-growing-pressures-from-right-and-left/6LLIEGHMSZDH3OASYMQDD65SMA/>.

Here in NZ, we have had coalition politics as a matter of course,
going back 30 years now. Multiparty democracy is not a zero-sum game;
the parties learn to cooperate where it suits them to get certain
things done, while still managing to disagree on many matters. Surely
it would be a good thing for the UK to have more of it, not less.

So poor Farage is crying foul, being pipped at the post by the
disaffection with Labour that he was counting on, swinging in
completely the opposite direction, away from him, rather than towards
him, as he was expecting. Diddums.

You may have missed the point here. The Green party held Brighton
council for years, nobody is bothered about it apart from the people
who live there.
This bye-election was fought and voted on tribal lines to a great
extent, with families literally voting as a group, and Moslems
insulting Hindus and vice versa. When entire religions vote as their
leaders instruct, that isn't democracy.
--
Joe
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On 02/03/2026 10:38 am, Joe wrote:

Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Living in a country where the Greens have had a significant
Parliamentary presence going back decades, it bemuses me to read how
earth-shaking it seems for Hannah Spencer to have won the Gordon and
Denton seat in the UK
<https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/after-byelection-pummelling-britains-prime-minister-faces-growing-pressures-from-right-and-left/6LLIEGHMSZDH3OASYMQDD65SMA/>.

Here in NZ, we have had coalition politics as a matter of course,
going back 30 years now. Multiparty democracy is not a zero-sum game;
the parties learn to cooperate where it suits them to get certain
things done, while still managing to disagree on many matters. Surely
it would be a good thing for the UK to have more of it, not less.

So poor Farage is crying foul, being pipped at the post by the
disaffection with Labour that he was counting on, swinging in
completely the opposite direction, away from him, rather than towards
him, as he was expecting. Diddums.

You may have missed the point here. The Green party held Brighton
council for years, nobody is bothered about it apart from the people
who live there.

...and those of us who had to visit the place for work. That, quite
often, included me. Let me advise you that car-parking is treated as a
crime by the Green loonies, who do everything they can to make it
difficult and expensive (not that the expense was a problem for me).

This bye-election was fought and voted on tribal lines to a great
extent, with families literally voting as a group, and Moslems
insulting Hindus and vice versa. When entire religions vote as their
leaders instruct, that isn't democracy.

I wonder why I didn't see the OP by Lawrence D'Oliveiro?
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