Eco_Socialist

Eco-Socialist Activist

[Shahrar Ali @ShahrarAli]

The totalitarian rot in @scottishgreens knows no bounds. Almost certainly unlawful GC discrimination. The legal cases of myself & Emma south of border will be coming to trial soon. Solidarity with Helga, David & Mary for standing up for sex-based rights. ♀️
"Members of the Scottish Green Party who signed a declaration saying sex is a biological reality have been barred from returning to the party for failing to maintain “political discipline”.
Three former members — among 13 who were expelled after speaking out about the impact of so-called trans ideology on women — appealed against their expulsion from the party." https://t.co/67oBmVFHNI

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

Does the Countryside Alliance advocate for a return to EU-style welfare for farming? Surely not? Unconditional subsidies for farming and fishing have been a disaster for both, and for nature; as well as being politically indefensible and therefore not to be relied upon.

I have advocated all along that enabling farmers to diversify their sources of income through rewards for rebuilding nature is the best way to support rural livelihoods. Public money should only be handed out in exchange for real, quantifiable public goods.

In other words, if a farmer on unproductive, hilly land or on a natural flood plain chooses to allow some of it to flood seasonally, thereby helping to alleviate flooding downstream (while storing and purifying vital water for society), then they should be rewarded for that.

The publicly funded Environmental Land Management scheme and varied market mechanisms such as ‘biodiversity net gain’, ‘natural flood management’ and ‘nutrient neutrality’ are the key to rebuilding rural resilience and prosperity, especially in our less productive landscapes (remember, 85% of the food we produce comes from just 20% of the land; most of our land produces very little food).

And in the process, we rebuild our shockingly depleted nature, in landscapes which would today be unrecognisable to our grandparents’ generation, which is something that poll after poll shows pretty much everyone wants.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

The state of nature in Wales is among the worst in Britain. Where not so long ago there was a great mosaic of Atlantic temperate rainforests, upland bogs and wildflower meadows, shaped by and infused with an ancient and rich Welsh culture, grazed extensively by native Welsh cattle and pigs, there is now one giant, overgrazed, hopelessly unproductive sheep ranch (a bowling green with contours which covers 88% of the Welsh landscape). English colonisers brought their sheep and swept people and nature from the land to make way for them. They’re still there today in vast numbers, and things don’t look like changing any time soon. Wales needs to introduce generous incentive payments for farmers to farm these landscapes very differently.

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦@markruskell⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!

[Emma Bateman @EmmaBatemanGPW]

Have you forgotten @TheGreenParty's awful treatment of the popular Green parliamentary candidate @alisonclareteal? You could have had 5 MPs but Alison was driven out for knowing Eddie Izzard is a man. Greens in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.

[Eco_Socialist @EcoSocChap]

@kellybabe311 @alex_schmalex99 @Drella101 @DadRogd What do you reckon? If a man changes how he thinks about himself in the right kind of way can that turn him into a woman?

[Eco_Socialist @EcoSocChap]

@fulham_prince @MockKing_J @SVPhillimore I can't tell by looking at a profile pic on twitter what somebody's blood group is. But it doesn't mean you can self-ID as whatever blood group takes your fancy. If you lie about it, I might not be able to tell, but it would still be a lie.

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

Imagine if someone who had a vested interest in undermining the Supreme Court ruling had influenced the judgment in the Sandie Peggie case by completely fabricating evidence, and we weren’t even allowed to know about it. https://t.co/8AakusBnbB

[Eco_Socialist @EcoSocChap]

@LvivNightingale @acoolerclimate5 The logic still stands, even if you only see your own genitalia in the mens changing room. If you're looking at your own and you're a man you won't ever see a vagina.

[Eco_Socialist @EcoSocChap]

@misullivan @JennaFights4You Right so do you think a man can develop the right kind of feelings that would literally turn him in to a woman?

[Eco_Socialist @EcoSocChap]

@7celo @GinaLouXXCrone @Qveen_Potato We agree on absolutely everything to do with material reality. We agree she's female trying to resemble a male. We don't disagree about what her sex is, only what words are best to describe the thing we all agree on.

[Eco_Socialist @EcoSocChap]

@7celo @GinaLouXXCrone @Qveen_Potato The one who had to take artificial testosterone to grow facial hair in order to superficially resemble the opposite sex. That's the person who's being refered to as 'she'.

[Eco_Socialist @EcoSocChap]

@Astro_Tree14 @TheMithaecus @mushycrouton I'm agreeing with you. He's just a normal man but one who's trans transgender. Like he doesn't meet the definition of transgender (because his gender identity doesn't conflict with his sex), but self identifies as transgender because that's the social role he prefers.

[Eco_Socialist @EcoSocChap]

@Astro_Tree14 @TheMithaecus @mushycrouton He's trans transgender, he only identifies with the social role of being transgender without actually being transgender. 🤔

[Eco_Socialist @EcoSocChap]

@holybullies @kittywoodoshea @roseweb8 @ThomasWillett9 But do we agree that women have the right to get undressed without men being present?

[Rewild Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌳 @RewildScotland]

Landscape scale ecological restoration. When we reduce grazing pressure nature flourishes.

Images with permission from National Trust for Scotland

[Niall Murphy @MurphyNiallGLA]

So, just three weeks after my original post, on a quiet Saturday morning a digger was put through the gatehouse to the Victoria Infirmary at Glasgow’s Queen’s Park and within a few hours - by the time I got there - it was reduced to rubble.

I appreciate @WeAreSanctuary were within their rights here as, frustratingly, the gatehouse was neither listed or in a conservation area therefore this is permitted development; however, given that it was a building designed by one of the best mid-Victorian architectural practices in Glasgow - Campbell Douglas and Sellars, who designed the 1888 International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry at the Kelvingrove and what was the St Andrews Hall later the west extension to the Mitchell Library which is one of the finest neoclassical buildings in Europe - perhaps it should have been?

Regardless, when we are in a housing emergency demolishing a house which should have been brought back into use at least a decade ago is not a good look.

Part of what gives ‘The Victoria’ its kerb appeal is the contrast between the new buildings and the surviving historic buildings and the authenticity that lends it.

Sadly, yet again another historic building has been dispatched. It all feels at bit snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and leaves me concerned for the neighbouring Administration building which is at least ‘B’ listed and meant to be retained but is in increasingly poor condition and will no longer have the benefit of rates relief…

[Eco_Socialist @EcoSocChap]

@Claire54783043 @lecanardnoir @AdamPugh I mean surely it's one of those two options.

[Eco_Socialist @EcoSocChap]

@Claire54783043 @lecanardnoir @AdamPugh Which ones are they? Men who think they're women or women who think they're men?

[Pallavi Devulapalli @doctorpallavi]

The lack of coherent and logical thought processes among pro-trans lobbyists should be obvious to anyone who thinks for themselves.
For everyone else, here’s @jk_rowling ‘s excellent analysis