Post 9xP42nA9zFjW5M42SG by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
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(DIR) Post #9xP42nA9zFjW5M42SG by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-23T19:03:07Z
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The Irish Green Party leadership vote was won by the current leader Eamon Ryan, who fell asleep in the Dáil (Parliament) the other day. But even a doddery old fool like him is better than his challenger - a woman who will not acknowledge women. On World Menstrual Hygiene Day, she tweeted: " #PeriodPoverty is an issue affecting many people in Ireland & around the world We must continue to educate, empower and end the stigma attached to menstruation & work to ensure access to period products is available for those who need them"
(DIR) Post #9xP42nl1mBDvvhJTv6 by Camille@spinster.xyz
2020-07-24T06:59:32Z
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Thanks for this, didn’t know that. @Maud_Gonner
(DIR) Post #9xP4a951WKOTcHZ8Yi by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2020-07-23T19:04:02Z
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@Maud_Gonner I absolutely despise women like this
(DIR) Post #9xP4a9mcuDGvnVxxWS by PennyLope@spinster.xyz
2020-07-23T20:01:21Z
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@HebrideanHecate @Maud_Gonner I've met her. And that's all I have to say about that because I like my eyeballs unrolled at this time of night so I can read before bed.
(DIR) Post #9xP4aAEzClxPDTEbj6 by JackyHolyoake@glindr.org
2020-07-23T20:04:53Z
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@PennyLope |It seems the Green Party everywhere is populated by many who are so Barking they are half way to Upminster.@HebrideanHecate @Maud_Gonner
(DIR) Post #9xP4aAuSiZ8NI6djNI by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2020-07-23T20:08:02Z
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@JackyHolyoake @PennyLope @Maud_Gonner Halfway round the bend and accelerating, as my Granny usedto say, except this lot are all the way round and off the tracks
(DIR) Post #9xP4aBlzVXx5y7gToG by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-23T20:11:05Z
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@HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoake And isn't that such a shame? Don't they know we live on MOTHER Earth?@PennyLope I would love to hear more, after you have had a stiff drink or a deep breath to calm those rolling eyes!
(DIR) Post #9xP4aCVilWX2Fx505Y by PennyLope@spinster.xyz
2020-07-24T06:34:23Z
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@Maud_Gonner @HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoake It was a very brief meeting about a decade ago, when she was first running for deputy. I remember candidates were making short speeches. Catherine came into the room engulfed by her fan club. It was a little bit of that scene in Mean Girls where Rachel McAdams is introduced, carried atop of the footballer players shoulders. She made the first part of her speech in Irish, but the whole thing was both very shouty and shouted over by people yelling out her name (go Catherine, g'wan ye gurl ya!) that as a casual speaker I could barely make anything out. What I could understand in the English parts was a lot of talk about being a woman, about how politics needed more women but nothing of any substance or of benefit to other women (tbh though, that could be said of most female candidates at the time). She them floated off with her human cloud to the bar area, where people were mingling. She was chatty, but was never "off" if you now what I mean. I've met a lot of politicians in my time, some of them world leaders, and for all hangers in and 'their people' around them, they normally take themselves off to the side alone, or at least with one confidant for part of the time, whereas Catherine had a bunch of people around her constantly. I imagine she's the walking embodiment of having a Twitter page open ALL THE TIME.I never heard her mention any ecology related though. It was all social justice. That, and how important it was to have a woman like her in politics.
(DIR) Post #9xP4aDAqIdQQJUJqBU by Camille@spinster.xyz
2020-07-24T07:05:32Z
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I don’t often do this, but there’s something about her I just don’t trust.And as for the ‘social justice’ bit, if that’s her schtick, why is the Green Party manifesto so crap on that front? @PennyLope @Maud_Gonner @HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoake
(DIR) Post #9xP7DSUHUvhB0eFm88 by PennyLope@spinster.xyz
2020-07-24T07:35:04Z
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@Camille @Maud_Gonner @HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoakeA very cynical attempt to chase the 'pink vote' = social justice dontchaknow. I honestly think that they feel taking about social justice issues sounds way more governmental that talking about the planet.
(DIR) Post #9xP7iZQ3m7UrUA78rY by Camille@spinster.xyz
2020-07-24T07:40:40Z
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Indeed.Well, the social justice stuff in their manifesto is shit. And from peeps I know who were seeking to influence the content of the Programme for Government, via the Greens, they’re wildly out of their depth on that front. Stick to the green stuff Greens, it’s why people vote for ya. @PennyLope @Maud_Gonner @HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoake
(DIR) Post #9xPNYKadecFlrcCZaS by PennyLope@spinster.xyz
2020-07-24T07:39:03Z
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@Camille @Maud_Gonner @HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoake I'll add that while Catherine definitely isn't my cup of tea, I try not to cast too much on her personally as women in politics do have a lot of shit to deal with. Those hanging about her though, well I think the high school clique analogy is very appropriate. And I hated high school.
(DIR) Post #9xPNYKwcKtpmxmU7qS by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-24T09:54:30Z
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@Camille @HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoake That's interesting, thanks @PennyLope !I do tend to support women in politics, but only if they support women too. The social justice element does not surprise me with the Greens. I've always wished they would stick to their own point, but they do attract all the nutters - in the past it was anti-vaxxers, anti-fluoride in the water, homeopaths etc. It sounds like Martin's faction is similarly crazed, just along TWAW lines, and they seem to have had more than a 48% influence on the policies.
(DIR) Post #9xPNYLCDOuJLk9ma9o by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2020-07-24T10:04:57Z
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@Maud_Gonner @Camille @JackyHolyoake @PennyLope I've got zero time for any of them, wouldn't trust them as far as i could throw them, and there's no way i'll praise a female politicianunless she is genuinely standing for women, I have yet to see this.Never liked the Greens, precisely because they are insane urbaniteswho don't understand the country and don't give a damn about it
(DIR) Post #9xPNYLjBQKgNOPCuXo by PennyLope@spinster.xyz
2020-07-24T10:19:08Z
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@HebrideanHecate @Maud_Gonner @Camille @JackyHolyoake The one national conference I went to in Ireland for them, the country folk and city folk sat at different tables. All while the reps were talking about how important the EU was to environmentalism on account of the fact that the environment doesn't do boarders and division.
(DIR) Post #9xPNYMF5ViCezM8OH2 by Camille@spinster.xyz
2020-07-24T10:38:07Z
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I’m a city gal, but I’ve heard so many people comment on how urban-centric many of their policies are. If you live in rural Ireland, you need a car, for example. Unless you want to be unemployed. @PennyLope @HebrideanHecate @Maud_Gonner @JackyHolyoake
(DIR) Post #9xPNkEzeHulXytZy1w by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2020-07-24T10:40:18Z
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@Camille @PennyLope @Maud_Gonner @JackyHolyoake SNP/Scot Govt are same, everything is central belt/city centric They haven't got a clue and nor do they want to
(DIR) Post #9xPOfuQstFkp0cohJg by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-24T10:50:42Z
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@Camille @PennyLope @HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoake Rural Ireland has been destroyed by ridiculous planning. We never got over sub-division of land, so we have spatterings of remote houses instead of villages and towns. The Green ideal of villages connected by public transport won't work without knocking down all the far-flung McMansions and starting again. (I wouldn't be opposed to that, but I have no idea how we would be able to pay for it.)
(DIR) Post #9xPPKUhXSo2V4rxWaG by Camille@spinster.xyz
2020-07-24T10:57:47Z
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As the man said when asked for directions, “well I wouldn’t start from here”@Maud_Gonner @PennyLope @HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoake