Never quite know what will grab my attention. I’ve moved on from just agreeing that climate change will drastically affect the next generations and am actively looking at ways to build resilience and support each other. My generation has to hold its hands up and admit we failed to prevent this. Sorry kids. Going to spend my remaining time enjoying the best of humanity not the worst - art, cooperatives, writing, music, history, film (I should have just said arts), random stuff, etc. He/him
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Last Notes npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb As activists, we were told it’s easier to get a voter to switch parties than get a non-voter to vote. I always try to push people who don’t vote due to dissatisfaction with what’s on offer to spoil their ballot papers with a comment on their feelings. Spoilt ballots are (in counts I’ve attended) shown to all the candidates to confirm they are invalid. The candidates actually see their comments. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb I think it’s misleading in a purely statistical sense to talk about non-voters as one block. It stands to reason that fractions of them support or at least lean towards different parties. Others may be opposed to voting on principle, and the largest block is probably people who just don’t think about it because it doesn’t reach a high enough level of priority in their lives. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb Is he fashion policing you? Were you about to put them on with socks? npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb *Zack npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb Let’s discuss how autism didn’t used to exist npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb I take the point but surely a tax based on house price would take regional difference into account? npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb The one good thing about the polls showing high support for Reform is that the ‘wasted vote’ argument has largely been removed as a block to people voting with their conscience. Green Party policies have long been popular in blind tests but they just weren’t seen as viable in first past the post elections. Now, the 2 major parties have been torpedoed by their own hubris and inability to realise the ground has moved from beneath them. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb it’s also regressive as it means if you study your way out of poorer beginnings you pay more than if you are handed wealth on a plate through no graft of your own. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb it’s completely illogical. Suppose I do a degree and then get a job in a drug company. I work on medical drugs for my entire career. Why would a government put an extra tax burden on me than if I didn’t do the degree and worked on something less beneficial? Not to say every graduate is doing something noble but without those types of job, the country is worse off. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb There is already a system which is supposed to tax higher earners more via income tax so it makes no sense to add another tax burden - just increase higher income tax rates as needed. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb But why aren’t fees still paid by taxation as they used to be? We are constantly told that education is important to the prosperity of the country so why is it only supported by the state up to 18? npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb I find it baffling that universities can’t operate effectively on the fees they charge and what they charge for accommodation too. I don’t mean to sound all ‘Reformy’ but what are they doing with all that money? npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb It’ll be down to Corbyn I think. Has he learned his lesson from 2019? If he finds ecology now an easier swallow than Remain then, then he should be able to come to agreement with Polanski. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb They have to work together though. There are clearly areas where Corbyn’s party will be stronger and vice versa. Splitting the vote will be disastrous. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb it’s irrelevant to the arrests made this week anyway. Holding up a sign saying you support a group which, by the government’s own admission , you don’t know what they have been banned for - isn’t terrorism. Nobody’s saying “let’s do violent things” - they’re saying the right to protest shouldn’t be removed without due cause and explanation. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb I agree but it’s a bit circular to argue that bad management is an obstacle to change if that change is aimed at improving management. It’s not the complexity itself that is the problem. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb I agree with 4 of those but not scale and complexity. That isn’t necessarily a problem in organisations if managed properly. Healthcare is increasingly complex and so it should be. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb Worse than that: Labour put its chips in a urinal and let Reform piss on them. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb Plus his version of Common People is the best npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb I’ve worked for the NHS since 2008 and have witnessed restructuring several times. It doesn’t improve efficiency, doesn’t reduce management, and takes up everyone’s time doing it. What helps is reducing the burden of reporting upward so that the time can be spent on communication internally and with patients. Staff spend so long reporting what they are doing that they have little time left to actually do it. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb A load of men as usual npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb the levelling around Xmas is interesting in both years followed by a sharp rise. Hard to tell if this is before or over the holidays. Too soon for back to work to have caused the rise so maybe people less likely to check in to hospital just before Xmas and then catch up as soon as it’s over? npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb Now there’s who should have been Time magazine person of the year npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb I feel a prime base would be fun. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb I ask myself the question why I’m happy on Mastodon and journalists aren’t. The difference seems to be that they want 2 things: 1. an algorithm to save them having to hunt for stuff (which I would argue is part of their job) and 2. Reaching large numbers of followers. They are still living in the world of count the ‘likes’ and so will repeat the same pattern as Twitter, Facebook etc. until the latest new kid on the block becomes tired and jaded and they all move on again. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb I don’t like electric cookers. Much prefer gas. Anyway it’s too late for me after nearly 60 years of exposure. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb I suppose better management would help but it has to be given the power to make decisions and get them actioned in a timely manner. You also need budgets which extend beyond the current year. So much time is wasted planning without knowing what the pay award will be - which has to be found out of a budget which is decided year by year, that even the best managers couldn’t achieve optimal efficiency. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb While this strategy might seem appealing to a pro-PR neutral, it is deeply flawed. First of all, what happens to all those Green Party members and activists who live in these dropped seats? At best they’d be sidelined, at worst they’d leave and the party would lose cohesion and become regional rather than national. Second, the assumptions about behaviour by other parties are wildly optimistic. 1/ npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb Yet when they do, the centre which benefits always does deals with the right to placate them rather than with the left to defeat them. Lastly, the Greens are always being blamed for splitting the progressive vote. Mainly by Labour. It’s nonsense - if Labour wants to appeal to progressives, it needs progressive policies. It doesn’t - it has moved into the gap on the right vacated by the Conservatives moving further right and, although that’s not 3/ npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb Most likely Starmer would not U turn and support PR no matter how bad his polling numbers looked. Labour are entrenched in the idea of being The One Opposition when they’re not in power. They won’t give that up. Thirdly, did it work in France? Yes, they stopped a far fight majority but haven’t got anything even vaguely resembling a progressive government. There are always calls for progressives to put aside their differences to fight the right. 2/ npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb popular, the election system is skewed enough to let them win. Greens have always been open to pacts at a local level and Labour constantly refuse to participate. Even something as basic as Labour standing down in one of the 4 Green seats won’t happen yet always the pressure on the Greens to stand down. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb Israel might want to spend a moment considering Muslim countries with nuclear weapons. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb They’re really not making it easy though are they? npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb In a society that doesn’t really use cash for so many things, it is a real concern. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb I’m guessing they can just decide who they want as customers like any other business? For example, if you’re bankrupt a lot of banks won’t let you open an account and will close any you already have. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb Again and again the centrists prove they are far happier with the right than the left npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb What about enjoyment of going there? npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb The key thing is that people continue to support and protect those that are targets of the fascists. What the right wing want is Asian and Muslim communities to close ranks due to fear and isolation. The more integrated everything is, the more they become the outsiders. These anti fascist protests were a good statement which needs to be built upon. npub1ktk5knkvf8787kzjntcwxa03ht63dddjef4e5j4lq9qq62sd2kgs2saveu Seb No, it wouldn’t be worse for Gazans - it would be worse for Americans. Trump will be terrible in many ways but this whole “we can influence Biden” line only works if it’s backed up by the real threat of removing support in an election.
