Pete M 🌳

Family member works for a paper cup producer. Drinking out of their own mugs is banned as they’ve been told it will give off the wrong signal to clients.

Not a joke.

My experience here in wales is sheep presence does not equal healthy hedges. Mismanaged, removed via neglect. An inconvenience with no purpose since wire fencing came
But agreed that silage production also makes active removal increase.

Energy prices are in trouble. No one is feeling it more than our rural neighbours on heating oil (or at least they will on their next delivery).

Another ✅ for heat pumps.

As stated and expected.

Farage: “Greenland is called Greenland because it was green”.

Greenland was called Greenland by an exiled Icelander in a bid to attract people.

One liar fooling another.

And I meant to add - your new way of inserting ads mid sentence for non-subscribers is total ensh*ttification. Making the experience worse unless someone pays a premium. Podcasts need to understand there are so many out there that people don’t care enough about them to pay.

I stopped watching QT a while back but made the exception last night. A great performance from you. I had to laugh at your response to Annabel Denham on her anti-renewable trope tick list she reeled off. 👏🏼

What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.

Sorry, had to turn off within the first few minutes as twice Rory mentioned the racist theory of “sectarian voting” for the Greens.

I can take that he doesn’t like anti-austerity economics, but repeating Reform attack lines is too far.

The air is filled with the buzz of two strokes.

Spring has hit the Welsh hills.

Exactly. But people love to jump on a bandwagon and repeat the hard right talking points of the Greens being “mad” “deranged” “extreme” etc. And ZP is masterful in dealing with it.

Same.

Grok is what killed it for me. Obviously the disgusting porn stuff, but also the relentless “Grok is this true” replies and manipulated responses.

On that last point - completely agree. It must have an influence. For me it was not that it was pushing me to the right, but I felt I was becoming more intolerant of those with opinions I disagree with in the offline world. The creep of polarisation from online to offline.

It is virtually impossible to engage in any form of debate there. I stayed until fairly recently, I found myself being pulled to being antagonistic just to get discussion going. Not something I can be proud of and totally unproductive. People only want opinions reinforced, particularly on X.

It is - but is that the only place they are communicating? Any in particular you are thinking of? Information overwhelm is something I battle with anyway, so moving away has helped hugely. Our brains cannot cope with all being thrown at them.

Sunlit green valley with rolling grassy hills, scattered deciduous trees and a narrow meandering stream. Credit: David Kilner

🌱 The rewilding charity Tir Natur has become the custodian of 484 hectares in Cwm Doethïe (the Doethïe Valley) with the aim of establishing Wales’s largest rewilding site. The land is flanked by two rivers and includes 65 hectares of peat bogs as well as pockets of Celtic rainforest.

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My life is better without it. I stayed far longer than you and in the end it was utterly futile.

It is scientifically evidenced that it rots the brain and drives the rise of the far right.

Did you see this yesterday?

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From what I understand about his acting skills I think calling them professional is a bit too complimentary.

Do share what the Greens record on house building is

“Taken to the reply trenches” 😂

As with all things I’m sure it’s more nuanced that saying the Greens have an “anti-C section policy” (screenshot you shared).

As I said, the best people to make these decisions are the HCPs and patients. It’s overreach and I wouldn’t support it.

Here is the wording. It’s policy under review. As a scientist working in healthcare (and a normal person) I’d support policy that improves health outcomes. Seems like the wrong thing to include in policy, HCPs should do what is best for the patient with the patient. Not clear how this could work

I joined the Greens about a year ago. First time I’ve ever joined a political party in my life. I’m sure there are things I don’t align with them on. But show me someone who aligns with every single policy of their preferred party and I’ll show you a liar. It’s not football.

But it’s obvious what this is. It’s panicking over the rise of the Greens, so trying to attack their credibility because it’s easier to point elsewhere for Labour than look inward.

I mean, changing policy is not unfamiliar ground for them.

The quoted wording is from the Green Party’s wider policy book, not the manifesto. In a member-led party, outdated policy can’t just be deleted it has to go through conference. That process is normal and democratic.

No, you said it was policy. This is untrue.

It definitively ISN’T policy. It wasn’t in their manifesto.

Policy is decided by membership vote.

It isn’t Green Party policy. It’s historical.

To pretend it is is a lie

That’s a lie.

So it isn’t actually Green policy.

A bit like you talking as if Ramsay was still their co-leader.

Feels kind of desperate to be criticising a party for historical situations as if they are current.

This is what she has to say… so if you do the jobs that no one else wants to do (euphemistically called “low skilled”), with pay that cannot sustain a living, then you are worth less to society and can be discarded. Sick.