Starmer's vision quest

[AuroraSaab]

They're naive enough to think that allowing individuals to buy small amounts of ghb for personal use won't result in it being used to spike the drinks of women and men to facilitate rape, so I think some kinds of political naivity are more reckless than benign and best avoided at anything above local council level.

 

[icowden]

His plan is to leave Nato and nicely ask Mr Putin to give up his nukes. It's not cosying up exactly but it is bonkers.

No it isn't. Keep up. This is the current Green manifesto

Nuclear weapons and NATO

Most of the world’s countries do not possess weapons of mass destruction and are safer as a result.

Elected Greens will:

• Push for the UK to sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and following this to immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons, cancelling the Trident programme and removing all foreign nuclear weapons from UK soil.
• Work with international partners to enlarge membership of the TPNW and ensure that all states meet their commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The Green Party recognises that NATO has an important role in ensuring the ability of its member states to respond to threats to their security. We would work within NATO to achieve:

• A greater focus on global peacebuilding.
• A commitment to a ‘No First Use’ of nuclear weapons.

 

[Stevo 666]

My general perception is that the populist left is well-meaning but hopelessly naïve;

One out of two isn't bad.

 

[icowden]

They're naive enough to think that allowing individuals to buy small amounts of ghb for personal use won't result in it being used to spike the drinks of women and men to facilitate rape, so I think some kinds of political naivity are more reckless than benign and best avoided at anything above local council level.

Wrong again.

Green Party leader Zack Polanski says his party wants to legalise, regulate and control drugs in a 'public health approach' which would instead point people towards addiction, housing, employment and health support.
During a visit to Gorton he hit out at the Prime Minister for discussing the party's policy on the issue in 'dishonest terms', calling it 'vile and disgusting'.

I can't find any statement about use of GHB for date rape. What has been proposed is that we shouldn't be sending people to prison for the possession of small amounts of drugs. We should be sending the dealers to prison.