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Absolute fuckin riddy all round, they managed like one whole calendar year where the Scottish Greens weren't embarrassed to be associated with them

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Well they can't ditch the "Green" part as it's fundamental so there's really not any greater difference than can be established than "Scottish Greens" vs "Green Party of England and Wales"

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Not the main issue but imagine the Scottish Greens will be screaming and banging their heads off their desks as lack of awareness that The Greens are not a UK Party but instead three (3!) independent parties means they end up eating shit as well due to people and policies they have no connection to

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Grimly funny that GPEW managed about 6 months of serious improvement and then decided that was quite enough and it was time to step on every rake going, good work folks, there's only a climate crisis and rising fascism, nobody needed a successful party of climate action and social liberalism

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Like for all the conspiracy theorising about YouGov it's never given me an impression of wishcasting the way MIC does, and like... why are you wishcasting for the right whilst emblazoned with a quote from the centre left? Weird weird weird weird weird!

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I know I have flogged this horse for so long it's positively skeletal but I just find More in Common such a *weird* outfit: maybe it's fact most other regular polling firms aren't also think tanks but it just seems so fixated on laundering views and personalities at odds with its founding phrase

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They're too far from civilisation down here

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I do think it needs to be noted the way that Kiwis do bedding is perverted, they have a duvet and then they like... sandwich it between two sheets rather than have a single duvet cover??? Oh so you think you're too good for the rest of your washing to build a new life in the big sock?

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Had a nice wander around Te Papa earlier then went up another city centre hill for slightly different views, pure knackered now

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Lovely sunny day in Wellington though much chillier than it was inland!

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You can't take photos on the Weta Workshop tour so here are some lads from the gift shop

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Having a steak and cheese pie for breakfast, New Zealand is so spiritually Scottish

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I may be on the opposite side of the planet but I can't miss one of the most important days of the year

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Aw man I'm top floor in the hotel but *just* the wrong angle for a view of parliament, which would have been the ideal placement for this nerd

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Fuck me they wirnae kidding when they said Wellington was windy

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Today is just a bus in the rain day but here's a very sweet cat at the rest stop halfway to Wellington

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What I did just see at Mangaweka was a Winston Peters billboard to which someone had added some, ahem, infamously particular facial hair...

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The North Island is so wild, bus went through a rainforest a few days ago, today I'm going through a desert?! Not a classic sandy one, but an arid patch nonetheless. Makes sense why this area was picked for Mount Doom.

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Reckon I could die laughing if 'electoral reform' amounted to the Supplementary Vote. Just the most egregious 'British approach to constitutional reform' possible. Little gained, new problems, actual reform delayed.

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Unfortunately nothing would have stopped The Bad Motion that GPEW are about to deal with even with better prioritisation and fewer spots but yeah the UK's Greens need to spend less conference time on motions and more on upskilling and engaging members to, y'know, win elections

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The Scottish Greens Need to Get Serious, Part 3: Culture, Organisation and Strategy

Hello, tonight's "light politics despite being on holiday" and "not my circus not my monkeys but I did used to be in another circus with related apes" post is "I think that whilst member-led policy is important to Green Politics, their conferences need less policymaking and general motion passing"

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To read the background to this mini-series and for links to the other parts, please see the introduction here. This entry looks at just…

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Sorry I did a pivot between posts: the first touched on the racial aspect of civic nationalism, but the second on the, well, national aspect of it.

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Because it was, and framing it this way for emphasising the point, the Sassenachs! It would have been easy to say "the fuckin English settlers ruined it" but Scotland's civic nationalism means English-born Scots are accepted as a legitimate component of the Scottish People.

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You do in fact got to hand it to the Nats (institutionally - some small-n nats will always be awful) for being absolutely firm on an entirely civic national identity when it would have been so easy in 2014 to Quebec it and blame people born outwith Scotland for sinking the referendum

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It's so darkly funny that an inherently Unionist English person - sorry, British person from beyond the Tweed - is definitely of a view that is one, anathema to Scottish Nationalists and two, if it wasn't and was something they espoused, would rightly be treated with absolute contempt

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I have to admit I tried standard Whitakers and it was Perfectly Adequate 😱 Would definitely have again but it's not like Estonian Kalev where I raved about it so much a pal who went a decade later brought me some back

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Well they'll have to ship me home tomorrow because I have never liked peanut

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MIRIAM MARGOLYES VOICED THE SEXY BUNNY?!

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Sadly lacking the mascot, retvrn

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If I were More In Common I would simply have wound up after shiteing the bed so bad in May

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Important discovery: UK folk, remember Cadbury Caramel? With the mostly yellow wrapper? The sexy bunny mascot? The precursor to Dairy Milk Caramel? NZ Dairy Milk Caramel is a lot like the OG Caramel - runnier caramel, and even the chocolate itself gave me one of those intense taste timewarps

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A second ice cream has hit the day Justifying this by the fact tomorrow is a Not Really Doing Anything day so no further treat opportunities - the bus (same one I got this morning to here, just continuing on) won't even have got me all the way to Wellington this time tomorrow 😱

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See I thought that maybe the 90 mins turned out to be for the whole trail going beyond the falls but the sign back at the park does indeed say Huka Falls Walk 1hr 30mins! I'm used to beating advised times as gays walk fast but not by that much!

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Absolutely lovely day for a walk along the Waikato River up to the Huka Falls - I could have put my shorts on it's that warm! Bet the people on the jet boats were a bit less toasty mind you

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A walk I thought would take 90 mins took 30 and there is ice cream at the end of it, so that's a pretty good afternoon in my view

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"Those hills are boobs" is a cultural universal Except amongst the Dutch one assumes

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