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A Head-Scarf Ban and Carbon Taxes: Austria’s Kurz to Govern With Green Party in Unlikely Partnership


That’s how, in a 300-page coalition contract presented in Vienna on Thursday, plans for a head scarf ban for Muslim girls and deportation centers for unsuccessful asylum seekers sat side by side with a carbon tax on airline tickets and a target to make Austria carbon neutral by 2040.

As far as political transformations go, it was certainly remarkable — and it was being watched closely in neighboring European countries, where identity politics and climate change have crystallized as two main political fault lines in the Continent’s simmering culture wars.

Greens will be Green Slime anyone who believes the Greens in Britain would be any different is an idiot.
 
Also tax cuts


Too true. And something those cheering on the German Greens would do well to think about.

the german greens have been coopted for some time now- more and more they are viewed as a smug urban based party by those outside the big conurbations

eta there has been a conscious policy of distancing themselves from the atomkraft nein danke lefty image of yore
 
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Green council just took over in Brighton & Hove again, & up to their auld tricks. Cutting the salary of the in-house housing maint’ team of up to 4 grand, & not paying sick pay from Feb to Aug 2020. Seeing as the sub contractor Mears ripped the council off for millions over the years hence losing the contact & maint’ brought back in house, this is lower than a fucking snakes belly. Strike on!

And the Greens have halted all negotiations with the GMB.
 
Local Greens, when not attacking worker’s pay:

“We’re going to set up a community parklet at the back of the ****** Street on the 19th, where the empty car parking spaces are. We’re not going to ‘advertise’ it as such, just set up a nice space, with a large piece of astroturf, chairs and a few deck chairs and some bunting, plants and autumn leaves. We’ll create a few info boards about the Liveable Neighbourhood to show who we are, to put at the back of the parklet – so if anyone wants to contribute to the content, let’s talk. I thought a sandwich board signposting the Pop-up Park, or the like on ******* Street would be nice too. We need to keep numbers down to 30 of course: I’ve pasted in the Govt guidelines below and would say we fall into ‘community event’. Hope you agree! I might tell the local PCSO it’s happening too – what do we think?”

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Green council just took over in Brighton & Hove again, & up to their auld tricks. Cutting the salary of the in-house housing maint’ team of up to 4 grand, & not paying sick pay from Feb to Aug 2020. Seeing as the sub contractor Mears ripped the council off for millions over the years hence losing the contact & maint’ brought back in house, this is lower than a fucking snakes belly. Strike on!

And the Greens have halted all negotiations with the GMB.

Latest update: Brighton Greens have undermined the industrial action & shipped in agency scabs. Cunts.
 
Green council just took over in Brighton & Hove again, & up to their auld tricks. Cutting the salary of the in-house housing maint’ team of up to 4 grand, & not paying sick pay from Feb to Aug 2020. Seeing as the sub contractor Mears ripped the council off for millions over the years hence losing the contact & maint’ brought back in house, this is lower than a fucking snakes belly. Strike on!

And the Greens have halted all negotiations with the GMB.

Mears are fucking awful. I recently upset one of their bosses - they're supposed to be "overseeing" a project here - when I said "a resident asked me whether your company is dependable & reliable. I told her that a pirate would be a better choice".
Pretty sure they're going to take a hit in 2021, as they're losing a lot of local authority contracts to DLOs. Even council CEOs are cottoning on to the fact that these "full service" companies are appalling value for money. We worked out a quick & easy explanation for why such shit work got done on these contracts: "For every £200 the contractor gets paid, roughly £30 filters down to the sub-contractor that actually does the work". Most of them can't believe it, yet here, over the last 12 months, they've taken tree maintenance, some highways maintenance, & grounds maintenance back in-house, It looks like the big contracts will also be broken up into smaller ones, and tendered locally. Tough shit to Mears, Morrisons, Access et al.

As for the Greens, as a former party member, I'll say the same thing I've been saying since before I left. It's a white middle class party for the white middle classes. Until it has the courage & conviction to broaden its outlook, it'll carry on acting like we expect the bourgeoisie to act.
 
Latest shit from the Green fash in Brighton & Hove - all council workers won’t be getting their % pay rise in April as they’ve removed that payment from their budget.
They really are the are boil on worker’s arses.

Just noticed another bin strike is under way, over your way, how can Brighton and Hove City Council be so fucking shit with their direct labour force?

FFS, despite both Adur District Council & Worthing Borough Council being Tory controlled, our bin service hasn't been contracted out, and are still provided by the joint A&W Councils' direct labour force, and there's never been a bin strike in the 20 years I've lived here, how can the Greens fuck-up so much over in B&H? :hmm:
 
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