Our Parliament decided not to send a government delegation to Qatar as a statement against the human rights violations there.

@deadgerbil yep, same here. Experts have been warning for decades not to become reliant on Russia, but they waited until the war broke out to look for alternatives. I'm getting real tired of the short term planning without any regard for the long term. Same happened with pandemic preparedness, climate change measures, the aging population, housing shortage, etc. These problems were predicted in the 80s and now we're dealing with several issues that need to be solved overnight.

@NerdyPotato near sightedness coupled with greed. Why do anything now when gas from Russia is so cheap?

You can see this on full display with California's housing crisis and that's a thoroughly blue state so there are no excuses. People want to preach about affordable housing, until plans are made to have it built in their neighborhoods

@deadgerbil yep...

@bookerdana it probably wouldn't have made a difference no. But still, the minister ignored the wish of the representatives of the people and wore a pin as compensation for that, but in a way it was meaningless. Whether it would have had any effect of she had stayed home or worn the pin publicly isn't really the point. It just has hypocrisy written all over it.

@NerdyPotato Pfft😀 If thats the biggest act of hypocrisy ,thank your lucky stars!

I only worry about pols with their hands in the cookie jar,like the EU vaccine affair

@HootyTheNightOwl the most famous case of that was discussing "a different position" for a particular critical opponent, but he lacks "active memory" on many things indeed.

@NerdyPotato If its as bad as that, there has to come a point where you have to ask if he's really fit to continue doing his job...

@HootyTheNightOwl people have asked that many times, but then he just laughs, says he's still capable of that and then it's all good.