tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294304112024-02-08T01:27:26.214+00:00Relearning Political Community; Relearning Economic Community; Relearning Spiritual Community-The greater potential for our well-being of political, economic & spiritual community drives Paul Crosland to stand in general elections & to write the “Relearning PCECSC trilogy“(or #PeskyTrilogy for short):Volume 1 - The Myth Of The Heartless Tory; Vol 2 - The Pioneering 108 Vagabond Custodians preparing for The Festival Of The New Society 2066; Vol 3 - Politics As A Spiritual Practice. These books will form the shares in “Refuge Tree Woods” where we gather to refine our organic plot…Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.comBlogger209125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-69859089189528623082023-09-19T16:16:00.002+01:002023-09-19T16:21:00.034+01:00Demonised and Demonetarised; Russell Brand today (19th September 2023)
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">RE Russell Brand Cancellation</span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></font></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">I have re-written the opening of the Trilogy: “Relearning Political Community; Relearning Economic Community; Relearning Spiritual Community” thus:</span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>When you walked up </i></span></p><p class="p3"><i>to me and you said </i></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>“Hey, heads, we </i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>dance”</i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>Well I didn’t know </i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>who you were</i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>Until I saw the </i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>morning paper</i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>There was a picture of </i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>you, </i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>a picture of you ‘cross </i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>the front page</i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>It looked just like you,</i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>Just like you in every </i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>way</i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>But it couldn’t be true, </i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>it couldn’t be true</i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>You stepped out of a </i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>stranger</i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>They say that the devil </i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>is a charming man</i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>And just like you, I bet he </i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><i>can dance</i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2" style="text-align: right;">(Kate Bush quote</span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2" style="text-align: right;">from</span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2" style="text-align: right;">Heads We're Dancing</span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"></span></p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_mQhjaWIg" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 12pt;">https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_mQhjaWIg </a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline; font-size: 12pt;">)</span></div><p></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88-IJ5_Uk6NgQZanEMJ3wUtXWJNtWzZu75eRzV2-CRdsDxp4Ol9HkTeIwQbuMMdkW3N0jYkpjYUgBd8E3Fm2BhfkLa5YHiDF8ERenPejnNZbRqY1pbcApx8M3HwZrWzUfTAYYqXoAkqKL6gVBMYKT13j7OEF4ojD2GWbX18kWi0tFXmO506fL/s1965/IMG_1386.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1965" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88-IJ5_Uk6NgQZanEMJ3wUtXWJNtWzZu75eRzV2-CRdsDxp4Ol9HkTeIwQbuMMdkW3N0jYkpjYUgBd8E3Fm2BhfkLa5YHiDF8ERenPejnNZbRqY1pbcApx8M3HwZrWzUfTAYYqXoAkqKL6gVBMYKT13j7OEF4ojD2GWbX18kWi0tFXmO506fL/s320/IMG_1386.jpeg" width="156" /></a></div><br /><p class="p3"><span class="s2">My therapist pointed out to me how well-furnished I was -even before I became 19 stone(!)- with mentors. Some of them, -most I suppose- have written books. I visualise them in a circle around me, giving advice. There’s a massive shortage, in my opinion, of people asking for advice. When I put it on a T-shirt -<i>I WANT YOUR ADVICE</i>- and cycled from Lands End to John O Groats (2009?), stickers in hand with my “<i>I don’t know best, we know better</i>” message, it was a life changing experience as well as my first blog: <a href="http://iwantyouradvice.blogspot.com/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 12pt;">http://iwantyouradvice.blogspot.com/</a></span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2">Though Russell Brand wasn’t a mentor, he was a conduit to many quality mentors, the most recent example that I followed up further being good old EckhartTolle* (of the “Power Of Now” mindfulness fame). Above that, Russell was, to me, a would be interviewer just as Dominic Cummings was a would-be enabler; but that’s a story for later. My plotted route to that elusive Russell Brand interview was via a series of interviews I began in the lockdown that followed hard on my standing for the first time in a general election; the interview series (incomplete) is called “Politics On A Platform” and only one of the three interviews that, in my mind, would lead to the interview by Russell Brand, is recorded & uploaded**.</span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2">I write this on the Tuesday following the Channel 4 airing of the Russell Brand Dispatches expose (alongside the Times); how thoroughly Brand, as the media are now increasingly calling him on the slippery slope of de-humanisation, has been strung like a chicken and dispatched. </span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2">One of the books I hope to introduce you to in this book is called “Inside the No”*** and uses the terminology “The Terrorist Line” to indicate a continuum that starts with mocking. The more the other isn’t heard as they would like to be heard the greater the likely escalation of violence by the unheard. If the Russell Brand demonisation is an attempt to discredit his lines of enquiry since key influencers of the old-fashioned political left variety fell out of love with his work****, then the post-Brexit learning about hearing each other across political divides to prevent catastrophe is once again lacking, and the consequences….</span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2">The cloak of anonymous “Alice” (whose virginity was taken by Russell Brand when she was 16 and he was 30) being mouthed yesterday in Woman’s Hour by an actor is a perfect ruse(?) for a well-scripted rubbishing of the avenues of enquiry that Russell Brand was following. Thus “Alice” said, in response to the question “What is your response to his response?” “First of all I think it’s insulting and I think it’s laughable that he would even imply that this is some kind of mainstream media conspiracy. He’s not outside the mainstream: he did a Universal Movies picture last year; he did Minions -a children’s movie; he’s very much part of the mainstream media. He just happens to have a YouTube channel where he talks about conspiracy theories to an audience that laps it up, and, it may sound cynical but, I do think that he was building himself an audience for years of people that would then have great distrust of any publication that came forward with allegations. He knew it was coming for a long time. Then as for him denying that anything non-consensual happened that’s not a surprise to me; these men always deny that any of these allegations brought to them. I knew he would. He didn’t deny that he had a relationship with a 16 year old.“.</span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2">I ask you these three questions RE Russell Brand:</span></p><ol class="ol1">
<li class="li3"><span class="s2">In what ways have you supported/ignored the demonisation of Russell Brand?</span></li>
<li class="li3"><span class="s2">What does your answer to q1 say about you?</span></li>
<li class="li3"><span class="s2">What shift in discourse do you reckon would be the consequence of truly acknowledging the truth in this #Solzenitzin Quote: “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”</span></li>
</ol><p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2">To finish this writing for now with the words of Alice again that echo my intent as well: “I hope that we can have conversations that will lead to protecting people in the future”.</span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2">*Eckhart Tolle teaching (& special offer):</p><p class="p2"><span style="display: inline;"><a href="https://teachings.eckharttolle.com/the-shift-that-changes-everything-watch-now/?_kx=IWzDy-BhHqy6Ztjt7fHI2qcovxE4UDhXpPmWqfAaK0c%3D.Nk7zZb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" title="https://teachings.eckharttolle.com/the-shift-that-changes-everything-watch-now/?_kx=IWzDy-BhHqy6Ztjt7fHI2qcovxE4UDhXpPmWqfAaK0c%3D.Nk7zZb"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">https://teachings.eckharttolle.com/the-shift-that-changes-everything-watch-now/?_kx=IWzDy-BhHqy6Ztjt7fHI2qcovxE4UDhXpPmWqfAaK0c%3D.Nk7zZb</font></a><br /></span></p><p class="p2"><br /></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2">**#PoliticsOnAPlatform playlist: <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExowrKGeEV3V2IGl06_a-ZT7v&si=G3sINdVKuQFRdZaL">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExowrKGeEV3V2IGl06_a-ZT7v&si=G3sINdVKuQFRdZaL</a></span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2">***Myra Lewis (mentored by Arnie Mindel) is the author; her TED talk is in this “Walk Towards The Conflict” playlist compiled by my company, #MediationSupportLtd: </p><p class="p2"> <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExozL8ltzcK3F_WHxTiWHvv68&si=iiiCOfjNEJDF7i8K" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 12pt;">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExozL8ltzcK3F_WHxTiWHvv68&si=iiiCOfjNEJDF7i8K</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHffuhZk-z7Ysrx6r0KcnlocvEp_GEqXEgIpPc5-dxoMOMlq1kobGttF-5D5nh7KdrYCNxBZMcYjgPjEpV91n34PFyO1YX_KE1jKBmC9JHQadfS1-P3VeWWPLAP93C27-1B_6H8RHt3g2i5eEqeJOVM7ozl4oZ-Xg9YnMBoPzDiGiz7J8w-BLI/s960/IMG_1388.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="960" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHffuhZk-z7Ysrx6r0KcnlocvEp_GEqXEgIpPc5-dxoMOMlq1kobGttF-5D5nh7KdrYCNxBZMcYjgPjEpV91n34PFyO1YX_KE1jKBmC9JHQadfS1-P3VeWWPLAP93C27-1B_6H8RHt3g2i5eEqeJOVM7ozl4oZ-Xg9YnMBoPzDiGiz7J8w-BLI/s320/IMG_1388.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="p2"><br /></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2">****George Monbiot:</span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/10/russell-brand-politics-public-figures-responsibility</span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span></font></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">#GoodAndEvilSolzhenitzinQuote on X (formerly known as Twitter): <a href="https://x.com/paulcrosland/status/1596518635841155073?s=46&t=f7uCiqzATKFg8umuEchRgQ">https://x.com/paulcrosland/status/1596518635841155073?s=46&t=f7uCiqzATKFg8umuEchRgQ</a></span></font></span></p>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-53425759966416069662022-07-06T01:35:00.000+01:002022-07-06T01:35:57.327+01:00“The Myth Of The ‘Heartless Tory’ & ‘Breaking The Mould Off UK Politics’ in the Post-Boris Era" <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline !important;">“2066 Country Publications” is a front for Mediation Support Ltd, part of St Leonards Sharing Consortium, founded in 2011 & with so far to go to reach it’s potential for “co-creating a more caring & sharing community around you”.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><div>’The Guided Life’ -which is also the title of a book provided to those involved in the “2066 Country Book Club”- led to the Parliamentary Candidacy of the founder of <span style="display: inline !important;">St Leonards Sharing Consortium.</span></div></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3-44M69wrC8?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="font-size: 12pt; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1MTClYD0pjnYlYhQrxysgSj1v9TaGvaru" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1MTClYD0pjnYlYhQrxysgSj1v9TaGvaru" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="display: inline !important;"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The overhaul to politics* that these times call for is the subject drawn from this experience of politicians not striving to get their opponents’ voices heard. Hence, after a book years ago of Restorative Justice stories (free pdf & ‘word’ versions </font><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://restorativejustice.pbworks.com" title="here" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">here</a>), Paul Crosland’s 2nd book is </font></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">“The Myth Of The ‘Heartless Tory’ & ‘Breaking The Mould Off UK Politics’ in the Post-Boris Era". Please Pre-order with a </span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://PayPal.me/RefugeTreeWoods" title="£14 payment to Mediation Support Ltd" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">£14 payment to Mediation Support Ltd</a></font></div><div><br></div><div>*The subsequent books are on the overhaul of economics & (spiritual) community called for by these times; the first a tale of 108 #VagabondCustodians who live on a one-off rent payment of £10,000 (#10kRentForLife) & plan for the Festival of the New Society 2066 in #RefugeTreeWoods.</div><div><br></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-51159269111351806662022-01-01T05:13:00.000+00:002022-01-01T05:13:07.900+00:00Pre-Order 2022 Publication of The Myth Of The Heartless Tory
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline !important;">Feedback please on this latest attempt at two scene-setting opening paragraphs of “The #MythOfTheHeartlessTory”: </span><br></span></font></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="text-align: left; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MW7h2ZnBtX0?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“As we enter #PandemicEraPolitics I contact Sally-Ann Hart, MP, to check what she’s willing to publicly say about re-using PPE* and to check that we are still on good terms. My 1st #CoronavirusPoem, “The Cruel C” it is now clear will neither be published in the Spectator or The New Statesman. I read “The People’s War” & brush-up my awareness of how Attlee served Churchill and how that in turn founded the largest religion in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, namely the National Health Service. It is Easter Day and I’m a few weeks into #DadAndSonIsolation. Chocolate eggs are as absent as hens teeth, but the resurrection spirit has arrived in “Open Democracy” having published what amounts to a manifesto for a great turning of #PandemicEraEthics; which I proceed to put into bullet points on the “St Leonards Sharing Consortium” wiki site & discuss on the phone with a friend who has sent me a postcard saying “Whoever you vote for the government always gets in”. Some weeks later he issues the first serious political death threat of my life; his mental health strained by the Pandemic in ways that were to go on to break the man who had been my wingman in #HastingsAndRyeConstituency’s 12th December 2019 general election.</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please pray for #StLeonardsLocalTreasureTonyMay leaving residential mental health care. We would both like to believe that, out of all my #politicalmessaging it was my 3rd bullet point on the leaflet delivered to all 56,400 addresses -#MoveForwardMoreTogether- that struck a chord leading to more votes than for any Independent Candidate in the history of the constituency. #TonyAndPaul went on to record a series of 6episodes of #KinderPoliticsQuestionTime & I will draw from these and the (soon to be infamous?) #3hourVaccinationConversation to hopefully open us more up to the humanity/divinity that lies across so many current divides. I don’t recommend learning lessons from the most influential, yet UK Parliamentary unsuccessful politician of recent decades, Nigel Farage. Instead I urge us all to learn the lessons that prevent numerous #FaragesOfTheThicket turning fear into political capital. My fear is that just like Primo Levi’s detailed account of the Nazi concentration camps, if this book is read with ill intent, it will serve in part as a manual for how to scupper the plans of the major parties in marginal parliamentary seats. </span></font></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">****************</span></font></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Pre-Order my book advocating a balance of #KinderPolitics & #DeeperAccountability -The #MythOfTheHeartlessTory- the link is </span></font><a href="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1472504218762334212?s=21" title="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1472504218762334212?s=21" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1472504218762334212?s=21</font></a></font></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The Myth Of The Heartless Tory</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Kinder Politics, Deeper Accountability and Politics as Spiritual Practice”</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The #pinnedposts to which I would appreciate responses are:</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1) the #CovidQuestionTimeNow #pinnedpost on #PaulCroslandIndependentCandidate’s page: </span></font><a href="https://Facebook.com/paulbasicincomecrosland" title="https://Facebook.com/paulbasicincomecrosland" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">https://Facebook.com/paulbasicincomecrosland</font></a><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">; </span></font></font></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2) the opportunity to preorder “The #MythOfTheHeartlessTory” via </span></font><a href="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1472504218762334212?s=21" title="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1472504218762334212?s=21" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1472504218762334212?s=21</font></a></font></span></p>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-85073505999612761132021-11-09T08:51:00.000+00:002021-11-09T08:54:02.640+00:00Obama’s COP26 Speech and the best bottom up response I know<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/69EMd4csZRY?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="font-size: 12pt; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: inline !important;"><font face="sans-serif" size="3">
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reflecting on Obama’s Speech to COP26 I got a strong sense of how little change is going to be created by #TopDownApproaches to the #ClimateCrisis and how crucial it might be to recruit eg from @XRBuddhists and the #ExtinctionRebellion group with which I have a standing order (@XRHSL), mobile (#Nomadic) teams of #CommunityDevelopmentWorkers, acting as #CommunityBees delivering what #BorisJohnson promised in his most #ChurchillianMoment (#10thMay2020); the #MoreGenerousMoreSharing version of #GlobalBritain. It involves house to house #BuddhistDoorKnocking skills (trained by #TriratnaJayaraja?) to cross-fertilise the “Sharing and Caring” experience and create the paradigm shift encapsulated by #MikiKashtan as that from #SeparationControlScarcity to #ConnectionFlowAbundance. </span><span class="s1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span class="s1"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sign up with whatever “down payment” fits your commitment at </span></font><a href="https://PayPal.me/RefugeTreeWoods" title="https://PayPal.me/RefugeTreeWoods" style="outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">https://PayPal.me/RefugeTreeWoods</font></a><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> - suggested donation £1.08 for the money poor and £108 for the money rich. #2066Timebanking donations of 10mins+ welcome from those #MoneyPoorTimeRich.</span></font></span></p></font></span></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-19684763249857527902021-11-09T08:25:00.000+00:002021-11-09T08:25:37.337+00:00My Last Ten Years<div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1fVr2whpJ3Vc7imYTHPCiFA_Gzws2oNyD" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1fVr2whpJ3Vc7imYTHPCiFA_Gzws2oNyD" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What’s the opposite of an #AnnusHorriblis?; such was the (academic) year 2010-2011; the last time I’ve lived in a #RightLivelihoodTeam. I’ve spent 10 years since trying to recreate such a team, albeit applied to #ProgressiveEconomics embodying the #MoreGenerousMoreSharing ideal of a #TownSharingConsortium such as #StLeonardsSharingConsortium, which I founded in 2011 with three companies (of which I am a director!), with a #StLeonardsOnSea local cafe/nightspot and with the (#Mediation/#MarshallRosenberg inspired) charity “The Centre for Peaceful Solutions”.</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">#AspiringDrAmbedkarsOfStLeonardsOnSea (#ADAOSLOS for short) has subsequently become the title for the team of workers from the #TriratnaBuddhistCommunity that I’d hoped to attract*. Attempts between 2011-2014 failed in recruiting a team of “Community Bees” going house to house to cross-fertilise the “Sharing and Caring” experience and create the paradigm shift encapsulated by #MikiKashtan as that from #SeparationControlScarcity to #ConnectionFlowAbundance. From 2015 in moving back to Canterbury, my life refocused on providing Dad with an increasing level of care culminating in over 5 months of #DadAndSonIsolation that began on #19thMarch2020. Dad passed away on 30th August 2020 at home with me.</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks to a “Timely Inheritance”, in the years 2014-2020 I was fortunate to be able to become custodian too of what I named #RefugeTreeWoods, the main branch of which is in the #WildWestOfWales; the other by the #PeakDistrict, near #Sheffield. Here there are working retreat opportunities as “we” do the groundwork for the #FestivalOfTheNewSociety2066; a focus for my life’s work of hopefully assisting the #EvolutionOrExtinction & #SpiritualCommunity teachings of #UrgyenSangharakshita so that they flourish beyond the centenary of the 1967 foundation of this #NewBuddhistMovement by seeding further #RightLivelihoodProjects including bands of nomadic** #CommunityDevelopmentWorkers, living much of the year on land projects inspired by #Buddhafield.</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reasserting the importance of #StandingForGenerosity in a place I love, I once again tried to kickstart the possibilities of a #HastingsAndRyeConstituency #TeamBasedRightLivelihood (#TBRL) by standing in the 2019 General Election as #PaulCroslandIndependentCandidate, which was, in the phrase beloved of the comic history book #1066AndAllThat “A Good Thing” #IMHO, but has not produced the “golden egg” of a team to carry the #AdoptANeighbour (etc) work deeper into the community, as I would have hoped.</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I’m waking up to my experience of 10years as a #FreeRangeBuddhist who has been unsuccessful in asking for ordination in the #TriratnaBuddhistOrder. My failure in closening friendships and forming teams living the #RightLivelihood dream has taken it’s toll on my resilience & health and so in November 2021 I have felt it necessary to reassess and step back from my ambitions in relation to forming such a team which I’d also hoped an unfolding of various #PaulCroslandDraftAuthor publications would strongly #InfluenceAndSupport. The timetable even for bringing out Book2: “The #MythOfTheHeartlessTory; #108Quests towards #KinderPolitics & #DeeperAccountability” before the (presumed) #GeneralElection2023 I’ve now “officially” announced as “dropped”. Letting go of that which with which I identify myself so closely I am however finding to be “a difficult thing”***: http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com/2021/11/former-footer.html</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">*http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com/p/triratna.html</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">**Mediation Support Ltd, which owns #RefugeTreeWoods,#WildWestOfWales & for which I work full time, offers such nomads(& their descendants) 28days accommodation a year for a cost of just 108hrs work (or £758 as the cash way to own 108th of the company). It is envisaged that #OrganisedHippies with Buddhafield connections can, on a similar basis offer year round bases for Nomads for much less than the cost of a Van conversion- eg £10,000 -saving you a lifetime’s rent.</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">*^*#PaulCroslandPlaylist: </span></font><a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExoyA0WDkf6olT3IFOwUWeVR1" title="Paul Crosland Funeral Service Playlist" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Paul Crosland Funeral Service Playlist</font></a></font></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1EoVKZ2ZsxA?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-51318306504458020792021-11-07T04:50:00.001+00:002021-11-07T04:50:17.378+00:00Former Footer<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V74AxCqOTvg?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="font-size: 12pt; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: inline !important;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Had you emailed me (at first name dot surname @gmail.com) recently, the following (long-winded?) plea for a 1st follower</span></font><span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">(see TED talk above)</font></span><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">in developing “the Festival of The New Society 2066” is what you would have got by way of autoreply:</span></font></span></div><div><div>*********</div><div>In politics trust the voice that does most to get their opponents heard.</div><div>********* </div><div>As Head of Restorative Justice for the UK-wide charity for community mediation I produced (back in 2003) a revolutionary book of cases of people getting beyond “Righteous Anger” etc; now a free pdf-or word document- here: </div><div><a href="http://restorativejustice.pbworks.com/w/page/14909253/40%20cases%20-free%20book%20%28pdf%20or%20word%20doc%29" title="40RestorativeJusticeCases" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">40RestorativeJusticeCases</font></a><br></div><div><br></div><div>My main occupation is “Paul Crosland Draft Author”; the current plan has me finishing writing a book a year such that in 8 out of the 12 years leading to my 67th birthday, (when not “Living The Dream” that for me would be to lead a “Buddhist Right Livelihood Team” instituting a “Town Sharing Consortium” & “MutualCare Agency”) the gestating books listed below will be born. If any of them interest you, a request FROM YOU for a Zoom call discussing the points of mutual interest is likely to be well received:</div><div><br></div><div>1. ”The Myth of the Heartless Tory; 108 Quests towards Kinder Politics & Deeper Accountability” </div><div>-arising from being the most successful Independent Parliamentary Candidate (GE2019) in the history of the Hastings & Rye Constituency*.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Invest in 2066 Country; 108 Quests towards the “Festival of ‘The New Society’ 2066” </div><div>(-outlining Small PositiveGroup Economic Power in which perhaps 1 in 10 people sets up a currency like “2066 Timebanking Hours”)</div><div><br></div><div>3. Level Up Our Life; 108 Quests (with Merlin’s mates) towards the Mind-Creative Integration of Classicalist-Hippy-Punk energies in each(?) of us.</div><div><br></div><div>4. 108 attempts towards cross-fertilising & future-proofing Spiritual Community (Voices sought from within Quakerism, Triratna Buddhism & the “Nonviolent Communication Movement”)</div><div><br></div><div>5. ”Dad post Dad” -ideally written with my sister and Maria Arpa MBE, founder of “The Centre for Peaceful Solutions”.</div><div><br></div><div>6. ”Judas Was Paid; the spiritual roots of 6 Whip-Free Accountable Mavericks in Parliament”</div><div><br></div><div>7. ”The third 22 years instalment of the ‘22-44-66-88 Not Out (!)’ #PaulCroslandAutobiography”</div><div><br></div><div>8. “(FreeRange) Buddhist Politics; how Spiritual Communities (can) contribute to a kinder, more accountable politics” (perhaps drawing the books 1,2,3 & 6 into a PhD thesis).</div><div><br></div><div>To get “Beyond Polarisation In Politics” I suggest we need:</div><div>Goodwill & Co-operation; </div><div>text me if you are low on either.</div><div>-or simply top-up via playlist on</div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mediationsupportltd/" title="https://www.facebook.com/mediationsupportltd/">https://www.facebook.com/mediationsupportltd/</a><span style="display: inline !important;"> </span></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Please subscribe/follow (then lead me!) via:</div><div>1) https://facebook.com/paulbasicincomecrosland</div><div>2) https://Twitter.com/paulcrosland</div><div>3) https://YouTube.com/PaulCroslandRefugeTreeWoods</div><div><br></div><div>Main blog:</div><div>https://additionalinfo.blogspot.com </div><div>(AKA http://2066.uk)</div><div><br></div><div>The Most Valued Talks of the #PandemicEra are shared here onwards: <a href="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1443745617981943808?s=21" title="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1443745617981943808?s=21" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1443745617981943808?s=21</font></a></div><div><br></div><div>Please submit questions for </div><div>“#KinderPoliticsQuestionTime** with #TonyAndPaul”; all episodes are added to this playlist of dialogues with “Hastings & Rye Constituency” constituents:</div><div>https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExoygUHKDyT3nDdPY-VCsKvFL</div><div><br></div><div>For a wider selection of news stories feeding the KinderPoliticsQuestionTime”: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExoyem5msqmJ-9DK8AmcOLlSw</div><div><br></div><div>****************</div><div>P.S.</div><div>PDF is the world’s third largest growing religion; if you find this hard to believe, just type into a search engine “convert to...”</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">**</span><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%23KinderPoliticsQuestionTime" title="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%23KinderPoliticsQuestionTime" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%23KinderPoliticsQuestionTime</font></a><br></div></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-73989453369606387402021-10-09T08:24:00.001+01:002021-10-09T08:24:07.647+01:00Extinction Rebellion Hastings And St Leonards (XRHSL) update <div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1CALBqUFEDdd2I5BjsYTXM6CYidrbcON9" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1CALBqUFEDdd2I5BjsYTXM6CYidrbcON9" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">“<span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">This week Hastings Borough Council made available their report on the progress of their Climate Emergency Action Plan 2020/21 to 2021/22. At best these are well intentioned aspirations at worst they are just more ‘blah’, ‘blah’, ‘blah’. </font></span></div>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They claim to be “putting climate change at the heart of decision making” but are they really?</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s2"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Time is running very short. We know that the systems of local government makes the task of an appropriate response very hard, and that it might even feel impossible. But when there is a will there’s a way- so we demand to see that will in action. We demand our leaders and representatives rise to this emergency with the level of bravery it calls for. There is no choice. There is no Planet B ...</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s3"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So we will be taking action on Wednesday 13th October …</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please join us between 12 noon – 5.00pm for our Crisis Talks table outside Muriel Matters House, Hastings (next to roundabout at Pelham Place) to raise public awareness, and put our concerns to council representatives going in and out of the building. </span></font></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s3"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">HBC want to “develop an engagement and communication plan, which supports and encourages local organisations, businesses and communities to act to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.”</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please come and answer their call: tell the council what you want them to do!</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s3"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At 5.30pm we will be performing a die-in on the pavement outside Muriel Matters House. Councillors will be invited to join us or to witness the powerful moment of contemplation created by mass action reflecting the fears and frustration of their local constituents. If you can join for no other part then please join for this.</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We will finish at 5.45pm with the full council meeting starting at 6pm. None of these events will be unlawful in any way. </span></font></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Further actions designed to hold our representatives to account will follow, and everyone is welcome to join us. As always, ExtinctionRebellion(XR) acts in peace.”</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">#KinderPoliticsQTpodcast now available too</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xNl224pu9AQ?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe></div></span></div></span></font></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s3"></span><br></p>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-56174124382652604122021-09-06T14:08:00.002+01:002021-09-06T14:08:36.939+01:00Intro to #KinderPoliticsQuestionTime with #TonyAndPaul; #CrossTheDivide ...sponsored by #MediationSupportLtd<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/qb0JL37h_5k" frameborder="0"></iframe>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-54693498458594177612021-07-30T11:23:00.000+01:002021-07-30T11:23:39.349+01:00Another MythOfTheHeartlessTory opening<div><div style="text-align: left;">July 2021 version of the opening of the book, now subtitled “Breaking The Mould Off UK Politics & Caring (as if) On A Living Planet”:</div><div><br></div><div>“Everyone has a heart, everyone cares for someone; perhaps starting with them self. Imagine caring for all life on this planet; how might we begin?</div><div><br></div><div>Having put the above<a href="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1420960439886925824?s=21" title="Twitter today" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: sans-serif;"> question on Twitter</a>, <span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline !important;">soon I attempted my three-bullet-point answer, such as that answer was then.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline !important;"><br></span></div><div><span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><div>1) #LivingPlanetPolitics @ceisenstein?; </div><div>2) #GrassrootsManifestoes @GManifestoes?;</div><div>3) #ConvergentFacilitation @mikikashtan?</div></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline !important;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline !important;">In the writing of this book I hope that my three points will be further developed, and, with the help you provide simply by my imagining you and “your precious”, hopefully out-grown.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Can you think of a politician behaving in such a way that you are alienated from them and whatever it is they were caring about when they said/did x? The primary UK example I can think of is the Prime Minister saying “Let the bodies pile high”. This wasn’t Winston Churchill, facing the consequences of his World War Two decision to sink the French navy to the extent that he could, in order to prevent it falling into Nazi hands, and at the reported cost of y lives. It was Boris Johnson. Have you spoken to anyone yet in such a way that what Boris cares about - a healthy economy, thereby saving even more lives, and, in parallel, his premiership- is even recognised or perhaps (dare I suggest it as a contemporary of his at the Oxford Union in the mid-80s and always sceptical of his being <font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1421023237857849345?s=21" title="#BestPrimeMinister" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">#BestPrimeMinister</a>)</font> honoured?</div><div><br></div><div>And at a more local area too, what politician <span style="display: inline !important;"><span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">said/did z, such </font></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">that you are alienated from them and whatever it is they were expressing their caring about when they said/did z?</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">Perhaps your MP has received death threats arising not just from doing/saying z, but the dehumanising effect of the collective reaction to z may well have built the tension towards the death threat, as I suggest it did in #HastingsAndRyeConstituency with Sally-Ann Hart, after an “unkind representation” of what said about Disability and the Minimum Wage (whilst sitting next to me at #HastingsHustings) broke through to the national media & currently still dominates the online profile of the MP elected 12th December 2019…..”</span><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3-44M69wrC8?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></div><div><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3-44M69wrC8">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3-44M69wrC8</a><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0XRhPNQKpWY?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/0XRhPNQKpWY">https://youtu.be/0XRhPNQKpWY</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Even today I find myself in despair on (compelling?) Twitter. I saw a tweet that was a response to “demonising” and, to me,<font color="#222222" face="Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84000015258789px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); background-color: rgb(255, 249, 238);"> that tweet a<span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: rgb(69, 81, 84); font-family: HelveticaNeue; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); display: inline !important;">ppears equally “demonising”. I can only see such things askance, for, as in the Bible, I do, of course, seek to remove others’ motes whilst having a “plank in my eye”. </span></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Seeing on Twitter much of behaviour that reminds me how much I care about a world that gets beyond demonisation, I draw strength from this #YouTubeFilmlet:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OEsDTykjM3Y?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></div><div>& progress, hopefully more creatively than reactively, by replying:</div><div><br></div><div>“I’m keen @PaulCanOnlyGet1 to #RolePlay “people who think it's acceptable to drown entire families just because they want to join friends & relatives and make a positive contribution to a country that desperately needs them” I suggest a #WeZoomedAcrossDifference zoom call. Tues?”<br></div><div><br></div><div>I’ll post any Zoom dialogue between me and this other Paul on <a href="https://youtube.com/c/PaulCroslandRefugeTreeWoods">https://youtube.com/c/PaulCroslandRefugeTreeWoods</a>; please subscribe!</div><div><br></div><div>*************************************</div><div>April version of the opening of the “Myth Of The Heartless Tory” book:</div></div><div><br></div>Standing for election can be a traumatic experience, accompanied by denial of the trauma. It has taken 18 months before I have seen my actions as others perhaps saw them earlier. Though my critics expressed their opinion less classically, perhaps I was akin to Icarus, flying too near the sun? <div><br></div><div>Almost 18 months ago now, <i>Hastings Independent Press</i> published what I call "<i>A Tale of Two Independent Candidates</i>": </div><div><i></i></div><blockquote><div><i>“Amber Rudd’s majority over Labour candidate Peter Chowney at the 2017 general election was just 346. The three other candidates, Nick Perry of the Liberal Democrats, Michael Sheridan of UKIP and independent Nicholas Wilson all lost their deposits. </i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>The Lib Dems as unrepentant Remainers and UKIP as belligerent No Dealers had clearly differentiated programmes from both main parties in that election. Mr Wilson, however, was a paid-up member of the Labour party. He said he had joined it “to vote for Jeremy Corbyn” but was standing separately on an “anti-corruption” ticket. As he polled 412 votes, and Cllr Chowney lost by a lesser margin, it is hardly surprising that Labour held him substantially responsible for their shortfall. </i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Could history repeat itself two years on? For here comes another independent candidate, Paul Crosland, on the 2019 ballot – not, as far as is known, a recalcitrant Labour member, but one who is espousing radical causes that seem likely to attract more fringe Labour voters than Conservatives.”</i> </div></blockquote><blockquote><div><a href="https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/politics/ge2019-paul-crosland/">https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/politics/ge2019-paul-crosland/</a> </div></blockquote><div></div><div><div>So, in what kind of politics can an independent candidate polling just 412 votes be held "substantially responsible" for a) the shortfall of 346 votes & b) for their party not getting the victor's 25,668 votes? IMHO an unfair, blaming (rather than responsibility-taking) kind of politics.</div><div><br></div><div>I chose to stand in 2019 in a “marginal seat” where I knew the back-story that includes this assumption by the "Independent"(left-wing!) local press that the 412 votes of my predecessor as the independent candidate were in some sense rightfully Labour's! Thus Nicholas Wilson (known as “Mr Ethical”) was scapegoated for the "Labour Party trauma" of Amber Rudd winning by 346 votes and I found myself threatened, in a surprisingly upsetting way, for the decision I took to be <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23StandingForGenerosity">#StandingForGenerosity</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Amongst other things, I contest both the assumptions about where Nicholas Wilson’s votes came from and where my 565 votes cast in 2019 came from. I suggest that neither are minor, parochial issues, but signifiers of a number of overdue changes needed in UK Politics for democracy to survive/flourish.</div><div><br></div><div>In standing as I did in 2019 I can simultaneously show the influence I had as an Independent Candidate in shifting the policy and publications of Hastings Labour Party. In other marginal constituencies other local branches of major political parties can be significantly shifted by the actions of Independent Candidates. My findings, dialogues and reflections amount to an informed proposal of a new kind of politics in a democratically deficient UK. Within this vision I have realised through standing and reflecting long and hard on the shortfalls of the vision I formerly presented that regime change is not necessary to make most of the difference.</div><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YvrGmOut9Qs" title="YouTube video player" width="560" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></div><div>Though I moved out of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23HastingsAndRyeConstituency">#HastingsAndRyeConstituency</a> on the day of the General Election result -under a number of pressures, personal and political, I was not, like the independent candidate in this constituency before me, castigated for losing Labour an election. </div><div><br></div><div>Nonetheless I was assumed by some to have capitulated with the Tories. That accusation is worthy IMHO of unpacking if we are to hold dear in this country anything other than polarising/reactive (rather than creative) politics which, IMHO, doesn't get the best out of anyone. Does standing up for something other than a #HowlingHustings make one an ally of one party and an enemy of another?</div><div><br></div><div>Though I value my two decades engaged in mediation work in settings as varied as prison and 10 Downing St, I’m no saint. I’m certainly not (yet) free of the antithesis of the #KinderPolitics for which I stand. I evidence my own #UnkinderPolitics in writing <a href="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1367058704932212742">epitaphs for Teresa May and Nigel Farage</a>; the former PM who upset some wheat and didn’t have a viable way of enacting Brexit, the latter an unelectable individual (under first past the post politics) from whom the lessons of his massive impact on UK politics have not yet been learned. </div><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ErmhepngMh8" title="YouTube video player" width="560" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></div><div>In the forthcoming book, "The #<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23MythOfTheHeartlessTory">Myth Of The Heartless Tory</a>", with input from <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23StLeonardsLocalTreasureTonyMay">#StLeonardsLocalTreasureTonyMay</a> & <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23ChrisGidlowAuthorAndHistorian">#ChrisGidlowAuthorAndHistorian</a>, I wish to explore with you: </div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>How #KinderPolitics might produce #DeeperAccountability & more #InfluenceNotControl </li><li>How Independent Candidates, without needing to be elected, may become the mediators and influencers of seismic "Welfare Initiatives" way beyond the extension of free school meals during the Covid19 crisis. (I picture the creation of a new political consensus (like after WW2) to the extent that any political party seeking substantial numbers of MPs being elected could only achieve their electoral goal if they supported at least an experimental trial in the area of "UniversalBasicIncome" or lowering the pension age (<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23PensionsAt3">#PensionsAt30</a>?) as a step towards the “BasicIncome culture-shift”.)</li><li>a #DeeperLegitimacyParliament and route towards <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23ConvergentPolitics">#ConvergentPolitics</a> without compromising "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23DemocracyOfNeeds">A Democracy of Met Needs</a>".</li></ol></div></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AWpdbxhVzXA" title="YouTube video player" width="560" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-41257939020375996132021-07-28T14:01:00.000+01:002021-07-28T14:01:43.710+01:0010point GrassrootsManifesto to help establish Convergent Constituency Manifesto<div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>NB For Inspiration before you share your 4-10 point manifesto here (or on twitter, reminders of the labelling used below on </font><a href="https://Twitter.com/gmanifestoes" title="https://Twitter.com/gmanifestoes">Twitter.com/gmanifestoes</a>) see <font>#ChrisGidlowAuthorAndHistorian’s #HastingsCitizenManifesto at https://youtu.be/Bb-N70EgiX4 </font></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline !important;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bb-N70EgiX4?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="color: rgb(69, 81, 84); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 12pt; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline !important;">Now mine, July 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline !important;">#GrassrootsManifesto @paulcrosland, #CanterburyConstituency:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: inline !important;"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1420354738835660808?s=21" title="(Tweet 1 of 3tweet-long Manifesto)" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(Tweet 1 of 3tweet-long Manifesto</a>)</font><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1) #PensionsAt30 funded by #LandValueTax of 3%pa -a step towards #UBI; </span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16"><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2)#DeeperLegitimacyParliament ie <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%2350percenttoelectanMP" title="#50percentToElectAnMP">#50percentToElectAnMP</a><span style="display: inline !important;"> </span>;</span></font></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3)#ReclaimTheLampposts;</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4)#NukeFree;</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5)#PeerMediation training in #schools;</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">6) #NoBlameNoPain culture promotion (#PaulCroslandCultureSecretary?);</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">7)#NonMonetaryEconomy promotion (esp #Timebanking/#2066Timebanking/@freelender #MoreGenerousMoreSharing (#InvestIn2066Country);</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">8)#GrassrootsEnvironmentalism;</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">9)#AdoptANeighbour #SocialCare overhaul;</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">10)#350millionpounds/wk to #NHS -including a rebalancing of #BigPharma’s influence with that of #ComplementaryMedicine & #CloserToNature lifestyle #EcoTherapy *<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline !important;">:</span></span></font></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-21414674038553066392021-07-28T08:58:00.000+01:002021-07-28T08:58:41.506+01:00Four Quotes relevant to my “Myth of The Heartless Tory” writing<p>I offer 4 quotes below, which don’t amount to a summary of the (difficult to complete) "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23MythOfTheHeartlessTory">Myth of The Heartless Tory</a>" (forthcoming book; perhaps 2022):</p><p></p><blockquote>A) <i>"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”</i></blockquote><p></p><p>― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956</p><p>B) <span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">The popular myth is that #WinstonChurchill said:</span></p><p></p><blockquote><i> "If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain."</i></blockquote><p></p><p>C) </p><blockquote><p><i> "An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”</i></p><p><i>He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”</i></p><p><i>The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”</i></p><p><i>The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”"</i></p></blockquote><p>D) </p><blockquote><p><i>"There's something wrong with democracy when we aren't in healthy communication between:</i></p><p><i>1) the collectivist</i></p><p><i>2) the individualist</i></p><p><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">3) </i><a href="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1372649320223232004?s=21" title="our sense of a #3rdOrderOfConsciousness" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">our sense of a #3rdOrderOfConsciousness</font></a><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> with a #TouchOf the Transcendental.</i></p><p><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">My advice is to find friends who embody the three key energies that we might progress with integrating these energies more deeply in the heart of each of us: </i></p><p><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">A) The “Creative Hippy” -distinct from the “Reactive (& pleasure-seeking, bohemian) Hippy”</i></p><p><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">B) the </i><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%23CreativeClassicalist" title="#CreativeClassicalist" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">#CreativeClassicalist</font></a><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> </i></p><p><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">C) the #</i><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/creativepunk" title="#CreativePunk" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: sans-serif;">CreativePunk</a></p><p><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The creative tension between these energies has been developed in talks over a number of decades on “Free Buddhist Audio”*; based on the 1990s observations of Reginald Ray, of the history of Buddhism in South East Asia & the respective roles of:</i></p><p><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">a) the lay (which I equate with Hippy)</i></p><p><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">b) the #settledmonastic (Classicalist)</i></p><p><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">c) the #ForestRenunciant" (CreativePunk)</i><br></p><p style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1A3VfU8zC6uVG_FzUnxaULOShLt6s1tTR" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1A3VfU8zC6uVG_FzUnxaULOShLt6s1tTR" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></i></p><p><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">(#<a href="https://facebook.com/paulbasicincomecrosland">PaulCroslandIndependentCandidate</a>)</i></p><p><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">*I particularly recommend the way that Vajragupta has carried forward the themes, eg around integrating our idealism with our experience without falling into (the trap of) doubt, especially from 40 minutes into the 2010 talk: </i><a href="https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC334" title="Being Radical - 40 Years of The New Society" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">Being Radical - 40 Years of The New Society</font></a><i style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> & his 2021 talks on </i><a href="https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/series/details?num=X212" title="#BuddhismAndPolitics" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">#BuddhismAndPolitics</font></a></p></blockquote>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-34002750955241812632021-05-20T01:18:00.001+01:002021-05-20T01:18:17.497+01:00Letter to Make Votes Matter<a href="http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hot-topics/campaigns/petition-launched-against-priti-patels-first-past-the-post-plan" title="http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hot-topics/campaigns/petition-launched-against-priti-patels-first-past-the-post-plan">http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hot-topics/campaigns/petition-launched-against-priti-patels-first-past-the-post-plan</a><div>states:</div><div>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The proposals, which were announced during the last session of Parliament in March, would make it easier for unpopular and highly divisive candidates to get into city and town halls on low levels of voter support, the reform movement says.”</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dear Co-ordinator of 20th May 2021 Hastings Meeting </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please recognise (& read to the meeting, to which I send my apologies) that Proportional Representation is the only way that a divisive candidate called Nigel Farage became a parliamentarian; #FPTP stopped this happening in UK Parliament, Farage was an MEP. 2ndly PR excludes independent candidates who can advance policies (eg #UBI) that the two main parties shun. I stand for #50percentToElectAnMP and look forward to constructive engagement with how this builds a #DeeperLegitimacyParliament etc</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yours faithfully </span></font></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paul Crosland</span></font></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Independent Candidate, Hastings & Rye Constituency </span></font></span></p></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-49785002362869743722021-05-16T17:52:00.001+01:002021-05-16T17:52:36.178+01:00How a Spiritual Community can release it's wealth for India, for example<p>My proposal within a Buddhist Movement with lots of real estate is that: 1) People sell as much equity in their homes as they can afford without risking losing their ability to live ..[insert adjective depending on where you are on the householder-hermit spectrum]; 2) These people, whether or not they've raised extra money from their real estate, buy shares in the Retreat Centres and Buddhist Centres owned across the Western World (worth hundreds of millions) 3) The Buddhist Centres retain 51% control and use 25% of the 49% of their capital value raised to address the concerns of our larger Buddhist brotherhood & sisterhood in India; which might be a Vaccination programme for the entire nation, blind to religion and caste.</p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>
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I find that I have a fresh start to the book I'm writing about modern politics, culture...</p>Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PaulBasicIncomeCrosland/">Paul Crosland, Independent Candidate</a> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PaulBasicIncomeCrosland/posts/273183124489148">Monday, 10 May 2021</a></blockquote></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GDV-AATIaUE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-10045354536970439572021-05-08T07:13:00.000+01:002021-05-08T07:13:34.262+01:00In response to Green Shaming In Ore Ward, for Hastings Borough Council Elections, 6th May 2021, my long-time acquaintance, Gary Rolfe, Green Party gained 205 votes. <div><br></div><div>Seeing the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/742658265/posts/10160979921353266/?d=n" title="#GreenPartyShaming going on on Facebook" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">#GreenPartyShaming going on on Facebook</font></a> (with a Tory elected in a most-“deprived” ward) I wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>As a #GreenPartymember who stood as #PaulCroslandIndependentCandidate in #HastingsAndRyeConstituency, somehow gaining the highest #IndependentVote in the history of the constituency, I found the experience an eye opener as regards the distance to be travelled to get from <font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%23unkindpolitics&client=safari&hl=en-gb&sxsrf=ALeKk0179gqd4-NXVsA0xp312ZqX2n45Rg%3A1620454328700&ei=uCuWYLSgKo7V1fAP5MWQmAM&oq=%23unkindpolitics&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAM6BAgeEApQlSVYlSVg6ytoAHAAeACAAY0BiAHVAZIBAzEuMZgBAKABAcABAQ&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp" title="#UnkindPolitics">#UnkindPolitics</a> </span></font> to #RespectfulPolitics, by which we gain #DeeperAccountability rather than end up with #HowlingHustings. The experience has led me to write the forthcoming #MythOfTheHeartlessTory; I’m confident that I’m not the only Green who sees as much threat to humanity from Labour as the Tories; here’s the only blog I found of the #5thDecember2019 #HastingsHustings that brought the town into such direspute: <a href="https://going-postal.com/2019/12/the-howling-at-the-hustings-in-hastings/" title="https://going-postal.com/2019/12/the-howling-at-the-hustings-in-hastings/" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">https://going-postal.com/2019/12/the-howling-at-the-hustings-in-hastings/</font></a><br></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aj91RIvM2f8?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-71850006994803307422021-05-06T08:00:00.000+01:002021-05-06T08:00:49.374+01:00Was there a serious #OustBoris #ToryPlot before SuperThursday? Have I misread a conspiracy ie #ToryCoup to #OustBoris? Was the appearance of a #MaxHastings master-move actually just Radio4’s World At One digging up an old enemy of Boris or did Max Hastings make the move to get his message of a clear & profitable route out of 10 Downing St & on to the uplands of #BorisJohnsonPublicEntertainer? In the #MythOfTheHeartlessTory I’ll be comparing the fortnight before the local elections as a period of blood-letting akin to the two months between #Pussygate in early autumn 2016 & the 20point recovery in opinion polls that Trump support needed to regroup after that setback. The main bloodletting “victim” is #CarrieAntoinette, whom TheSpectator has been IMHO effective in HoldingToAccount. Should she be seen to continue to seek to set Boris’s agenda and he act disproportionately according to her will/taste, the #OustBoris #ToryCoup will still rally & rally stronger. No one placed a bet at the #<a href="https://www.facebook.com/633855677/posts/10158335701945678/?d=n" title="10 to 1 odds I offered" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">10 to 1 odds I offered</font></a>. I repeat my offer at 5to1 that Boris will not be leading the Tories come the next election; up to £100 of bets (ie 20 x £1 bets) being taken. <div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nK79v728MBE?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-47915072474994760552021-05-01T18:14:00.000+01:002021-05-01T18:14:51.177+01:00The only poll that matters<span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/103089938165135/posts/266188488521945/?d=n" title="#PaulCroslandIndependentCandidate on #ToryCoup to #OustBoris (complete with Facebook Response)">#PaulCroslandIndependentCandidate on #ToryCoup to #OustBoris (complete with Facebook Response)</a> </span><div><span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">The idea that “The only poll that matters is the General Election” needs serious reconsideration in relation to the unfolding #ToryCoup to #OustBoris..:</font></span><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not so; #BorisIsMortallyWounded & is unlikely to see out his elected term of office, unless the #ToryCoup to #OustBoris is foiled by #RishiSunak refusing dialogue. Elementary mistake to think that Starmer’s polling is what counts more than RishiSunak’s, <span style="display: inline !important;">which is, of course, being done in secret. I offered generous odds on #BorisJohnson being out of office soon; that Facebook Advert/Boosted Post is doing the rounds of the #SouthEastCoast this weekend?: </span></span><span style="text-align: left; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="display: inline !important;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1g0UPaZGGfwsnuszkNWfKeNShbcNPeycP" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1g0UPaZGGfwsnuszkNWfKeNShbcNPeycP" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="display: inline !important;"><br></span></span></font></div><div><span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">“The mistake the #lefties are making is to presume that #BorisJohnson is invulnerable until the unlikely day that #KierStarmer is more popular; actually, as with #MargaretThatcher the question is whether there’s a Tory who better protects the integrity of the “Conservative Brand”. The interview on #WorldAtOne during the week of Boris’s former boss, former head of the Telegraph, #MaxHastings, was painting the picture of Boris leaving #10DowningStreet to have an easier life (& richer one) as #BorisJohnsonPublicEntertainer. Even the #DailyMail put the knife into Boris twice this week, with front-page headlines about #BodiesPiledHigh-#gate and (my favourite headline since #FreddieStarrAteMyHamster; #BorisPaintedIntoACorner. Now it’s #CurtainsForBoris”</font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1nFQmG1GIsJvZTSDi0ksOX05AefAqyiok" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1nFQmG1GIsJvZTSDi0ksOX05AefAqyiok" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/103089938165135/posts/266188488521945/?d=n" title="#PaulCroslandIndependentCandidate on #ToryCoup to #OustBoris (complete with Facebook Response)" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">#PaulCroslandIndependentCandidate on #ToryCoup to #OustBoris (complete with Facebook Response</a></font><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nK79v728MBE?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExoyWIFYy4QjOfpNfimeaa2u0" title="From the playlist Tracking and Tracing The #ToryCoupAttempt">From the playlist Tracking and Tracing The #ToryCoupAttempt</a><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-74374403388730490202021-04-30T01:39:00.000+01:002021-04-30T01:39:24.014+01:00What is the “Refuge Tree Woods YouTube channel” about?<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2KUODpmxFT0?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe>“<span style="font-size: 12pt; display: inline !important;">An unexamined life is not worth living" they say. I also hold myself to account in public for how I am living it; me "The Imperfect Idealist". I share what delights, what troubles, the joy of friendship and the quest for reliable meaning in life.Whenever I manage to get-up again, after phases of my #bipolarwarriorcycle that are conventionally called depression, I will be again #standingforgenerosity and hopefully learn with you here as we(?) fall down time and again in building #CommunityCohesion, #ConvergentPolitics & a “Democracy of Met Needs”.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">As the #GE2019 #PaulCroslandIndependentCandidate I’m seeking to establish a tradition of #HastingsIndependents keeping their deposits (ie 5% of the vote) in general elections. I offer on #HastingsTube a way for us to get to know each other better in the search for the #ReplacementIndependent. Would you welcome group mentorship to become the #IndependentCandidateToCome?</span></div><div><br></div><div>Alongside observations on life and “Mess In Progress” talking to the camera to prepare for books such as “The Myth Of The Heartless Tory” , Investin2066Country and the Festival of The New Society 2066”, “LevelUpOurLife”, “Dad post-Dad” & “The Secular Religion Of Music; Integrating the Classicalist, The #CreativeHippy & The #CreativePunk within”.</div><div><br></div><div>So, in summary<a href="https://youtube.com/c/PaulCroslandRefugeTreeWoods"> https://youtube.com/c/PaulCroslandRefugeTreeWoods</a> aspires to offer:</div><div>#AppliedBuddhism from #FreeRangeBuddhist 007, who has experienced #DadAndSonIsolation until Dad’s August 2020 death, then #LockdownMentalHealth issues & recognising my loneliness and “vulnerability” ie <font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1387267675185991681?s=21 s" title="#PaulCroslandLonelyHeart" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">#PaulCroslandLonelyHeart</a>,</font></div><div>#PaulCroslandDraftAuthor, practicing #NobleFriendship. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1mIDTXXAekSu8xnTznkt4mn_xb2GJiTcs" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1mIDTXXAekSu8xnTznkt4mn_xb2GJiTcs" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%23YouTubeFilmlet" title="For a randomised(?) #YouTubeFilmlet from my channel click this link" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For a randomised(?) #YouTubeFilmlet from my channel click this Google Search here</a></font></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-17667146365409834122021-03-27T09:44:00.003+00:002021-03-27T11:41:26.289+00:00Please bring the year 20xx closer"An unexamined life is not worth living" they say. I also hold myself to account in public for how I am living it; me "The Imperfect Idealist". I share what delights, what troubles, the joy of friendship and the quest for reliable meaning in life. I stand for generosity and fall down time and again as I experiment in #CommunityDevelopment in #HastingsAndRyeConstituency; having founded #StLeonardsSharingConsortium in 2011 & recruited #ADAOSLOS #RightLivelihoodTeam to promote it’s #NonMonetaryEconomy potential in the year 20xx.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sRxKNvLoSm8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmSRBQGsw0ff1DDEEk9yE4lm6nlobAmN-ntcx6MfShyphenhyphen0GVTKep_ue0g_bzs51ZXlrMrPgiaoowHPAHmHGxJGWzZrX61ERuzzMk6m748XduJRGmJ9feUY3V2AcOPkjSTpXTJuJi/s3264/IMG_1292.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmSRBQGsw0ff1DDEEk9yE4lm6nlobAmN-ntcx6MfShyphenhyphen0GVTKep_ue0g_bzs51ZXlrMrPgiaoowHPAHmHGxJGWzZrX61ERuzzMk6m748XduJRGmJ9feUY3V2AcOPkjSTpXTJuJi/s320/IMG_1292.JPG"/></a></div>When might you be contacting me to find how helping me bring 20xx closer (in one of a myriad of ways) could serve you (& your nearest and dearest)?</div></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-56859071127770818332021-03-14T03:38:00.000+00:002021-03-14T03:38:06.826+00:00Dear mentor in Brazil<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QmkP_t9kLFE?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="font-size: 12pt; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: inline !important;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">To my friend and inspirer, <font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="font-size: 12pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://Twitter.com/RestoraCircles" title="Dominic Barter" style="font-size: 12pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dominic Barter</a>,</font><span style="display: inline !important;"> in a correspondence trying to check how freely I might quote in the 2021(?) publication of “The Myth Of The Heartless Tory” from 6 films we recorded back in 2010, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; display: inline !important;">I wrote as follows: </span></span></font></span></div><div><div><br></div><div>Beyond the reference to the recognition your RestorativeJustice work secured in <font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.networkforeurope.eu/files/files/radical-efficiency-nesta-180610.pdf" title="NESTA's "Radical Efficiency" report (see Part 6 Brazil case study)" style="outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NESTA's "Radical Efficiency" report (see Part 6 Brazil case study)</a> </font>and your prediction (already quoted in my #GE2019 <font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com/2019/12/paul-crosland-independent-candidate.html" title="#MoveForwardMoreTogether themed leaflet" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">#MoveForwardMoreTogether themed leaflet</a>) </font>of a time of more collective decision making on so many fronts, I seek to point the reader towards Miki Kashtan’s <a href="https://convergentfacilitation.org" title="https://convergentfacilitation.org" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">https://convergentfacilitation.org</a><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </font><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">towards the end of “The #MythOfTheHeartlessTory” book.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Having asked Miki for an interview she wrote back wanting more clarity and expressing how stretched she was so I dropped it. It may be that before mid June you might initiate a zoom with me that provides fresher quotes and perspectives informed by the extra levels of poor government you have In Brazil’s tackling of the coming of this #PandemicEra. </div><div><br></div><div>My barely informed comment on Brazil and Covid19 is, of course compared to in the UK where the fault of my Oxford contemporary Boris Johnson is IMHO over-egged by the left; the reality being structural and mass civil disobedience (in the name of British liberty) having accounted for much of the high death rate here. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/15PnuG8Dxks?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-48269356208814159102021-03-06T00:16:00.000+00:002021-03-06T00:16:27.869+00:003 hour vaccine conversation<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">Deeply concerned, on Sunday 28th February 2021 I instigated a “3 hour Vaccination Conversation” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">with #StLeonardsLocalTreasureTonyMay. This was fruitful in unfolding the #VaccineHesitancy’s emotional onset & the inadequacy of the official response to such doubts.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; display: inline !important;">“Try 1hr 10mins in to this recording & the following 23minutes or so; #HastingsPierFire apart, our greatest 10mins to date for opening up much needed #DialogueNotDebate, Tony May?”</span><br></div><div>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://youtu.be/OoILhfmVLPs"></a></span></font></span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="text-align: left; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OoILhfmVLPs?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></span></font></p></div><div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="display: inline !important;">(</span><span style="display: inline !important;">From the full film I recommend (& have asked my Political Secretary to transcribe for this blog) the twenty minutes from 1hr10mins to 1hr30mins. Please subscribe to this blog via the left hand column (in desktop view)).</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="display: inline !important;"><br></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="display: inline !important;">Subsequently asked by a mutual friend & well-wisher “How can we persuade Tony to go along with the vaccination” I replied:</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="display: inline !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Some Points for talking to the Vaccine Hesitant: </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1) Let go if the idea that the task is persuasion & recite the serenity prayer as this might not be something you can change and which (heart-wrenchingly) you need the serenity to accept</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2) Recognise the terrain you are on as one where trust to talk about this needs to be earned anew. If you can win that trust then be as ready as you can to be with that person in the midst of their anxieties.Very little of this terrain is about facts and arguments </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3) Gently open up the sense of choices that the person has and alternative futures. Be vulnerable and honest as to what it means to you that the person has a decent quality of life and a decent range of choices they can make that might get them there.”</span></span></span></font><br></div></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-57250918631634118532021-02-14T16:47:00.000+00:002021-02-14T16:47:21.399+00:00Jackie Weaver & Handforth Parish Council “Cancel Culture” highlights the timeliness of a book subtitled #BeyondPolarisationInPolitics
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Serious issues of how local politics looks to people & on what basis ghosting is approved of; just two of the “#JackieWeaver & #HandforthParishCouncil issues to be addressed in “The #MythOfTheHeartlessTory; </span></font><font color="#000000" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%23BeyondPolarisationInPolitics" title="#BeyondPolarisationInPolitics" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">#BeyondPolarisationInPolitics</a> </font><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> by #PaulCroslandDraftAuthor. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The playlist below collects together a range of films made around the key #Handforth meetings (10th December 2020 & the infamous ...2021). I encourage you to look in particular at the sycophantic way #JackieWeaver was received on Breakfast TV & all the constructive lessons about conflict missed:</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.<a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExoyxrzjXkKEwuzNyvlO_x8jV" title="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExoyxrzjXkKEwuzNyvlO_x8jV">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExoyxrzjXkKEwuzNyvlO_x8jV</a><span style="display: inline !important;"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="display: inline !important;">And here Tony May discusses with me the conclusion of “The Myth Of The Heartless Tory”</span></span><span style="text-align: left; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="display: inline !important;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1IMC1qrzGfg_U7xYVLPtOYTFKxQ4cx0hQ" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1IMC1qrzGfg_U7xYVLPtOYTFKxQ4cx0hQ" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></span></span></font><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PoMLf18IP68?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></span></font></span></p>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-27114540432628738182021-02-12T09:16:00.000+00:002021-02-12T09:16:06.544+00:00Outline of "The Myth Of The Heartless Tory" book; seeking publisher for 2021<h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/wBJxQ7ZSAkw" title="Introduction or Chapter 1" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Introduction or Chapter 1</a> The Myth of the Heartless Tory</h1><div style="text-align: center;">and the</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23MostHealingPMsinceAtlee">#MostHealingPMsinceAttlee</a> ;</div><div style="text-align: center;">a call for "Kinder Politics and Deeper Accountability"</div><div style="text-align: left;">(From) Paul Crosland</div><div style="text-align: left;">Independent Candidate</div><div style="text-align: left;">2019-2029(?)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23HastingsAndRye">HastingsAndRye</a> constituency</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioaSQ6YvfcA9Pa7hXSobh5FcT5EETeJCACp_XHCGKysxpeonNImiC6RtC8K9XuHN_q0SAscpSX0cix0COEsVEwwzXTsd0ZnhPDBNLzYiXgnguRhD3z3hQVHwGhgx2RSlszIj36/s2048/LivingWIthNonViolentCommunication.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioaSQ6YvfcA9Pa7hXSobh5FcT5EETeJCACp_XHCGKysxpeonNImiC6RtC8K9XuHN_q0SAscpSX0cix0COEsVEwwzXTsd0ZnhPDBNLzYiXgnguRhD3z3hQVHwGhgx2RSlszIj36/s320/LivingWIthNonViolentCommunication.jpg" width="320" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><br><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 1: With my oldest (historian) friend; Chris awaits the open season for shooting the Conservative and Unionist Party</h2><div>St Leonards Warrior Square Station -Platform 1</div><div>(Two days after the 64th anniversary of the (1956) largest one-day mass conversions -which was led by<a href="https://doctorambedkar.blogspot.com"> Dr. Ambedkar</a> -i.e. Friday 16th October 2020)</div><div><br></div><div>1st <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23PoliticsOnAPlatform">#PoliticsOnAPlatform</a>* Guest on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/PaulCroslandRefugeTreeWoods">#RefugeTreeWoods YouTube Channe</a>l:</div><div><div>Chris Gidlow, author and historian</div><div>(known 43 years; friend for the last 38 years)</div></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLM4IagQQExowrKGeEV3V2IGl06_a-ZT7v" width="560" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><div>*Anyone mentioned in this book is hereby invited to be a guest on a "Politics On A Platform" dialogue.</div><div>Plus Russell Brand.</div><div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 2: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23StLeonardsLocalTreasure">#StLeonardsLocalTreasure</a> Tony May finds his “Kinder Politics” voice in relation to a “New Statesman" call for an Anti-Tory Alliance.</h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 3: #StLeonardsLocalTreasure <a href="https://Twitter.com/natnatters">Natalie Williams</a>' <a href="https://www.eden.co.uk/shop/the-myth-of-the-undeserving-poor-a-christian-response-to-poverty-in-britain-today-4309526.html">Myth Of The Undeserving Poor</a></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 4: Death Threat to the "putative villain", <a href="https://www.sallyannhart.org.uk/">Sally-Ann "Heartless"</a>, after 322 voted in Parliament not to extend the School-Meals voucher scheme.</h2><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0XRhPNQKpWY" width="560" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe></div><div><br></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 5: Have you cast your vote yet on the percentage of Tory MPs who are <a href="https://twitter.com/paulcrosland/status/1319338941905047553?s=20">Heartless? Patronising? Decent? Honourable?</a></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1DwOvITv36QzJ31abL_ahm9R91dshTzAi" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1DwOvITv36QzJ31abL_ahm9R91dshTzAi" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1QEtf0GoKi6MqLuTPzpLMO2oqy6-KtsMp" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1QEtf0GoKi6MqLuTPzpLMO2oqy6-KtsMp" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 6: A Tory leader's call to stand up for the most marginalised.</h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 7: Getting <a href="https://additionalinfo.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-myths-of-undeserving-poor-and-evil.html">beyond a politics dominated by two main myths</a></h2><div><br></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 8:<a href="https://twitter.com/gmanifestoes"> #GrassrootsManifestoes</a> & outlining the comparative ease with which a #DemocracyOfNeeds could be delivered </h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 9: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23DeeperLegitimacyParliament">#DeeperLegitimacyParliament</a>; what that would look like. </h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 10: 108 variations within <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07q87sm">Nonviolent Resistance & modelling</a> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23DeeperAccountability">#DeeperAccountability</a></h2><div><br></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 11: The arc of one and one's MP's journey towards the perfection of Wisdom and Compassion</h2><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qNfSjiFqbJQ" width="560" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><div><br></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 12: "In politics, trust those who do most to ensure their opponents' voices are heard"</h2><div><br></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 13: The <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23RightLivelihoodTeam">#RightLivelihoodTeam</a> providing a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/shadowmp?src=hash">#ShadowMP</a> service AKA <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4IagQQExoxO--sPZ5V-bcjNW_Rk915R">"The Aspiring Dr Ambedkars of St Leonards on Sea"</a> (<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23ADAOSLOS">#ADAOSLOS</a>)</h2><div><br></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PrKiOVURtn4" width="560" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><div><br></div><div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Chapter 14: What price for your deal with "the opposition"?</h2><div><br></div><div><br></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lt2CrvnC9b8" width="560" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><div><br></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xw8MjFR8kRw" width="560" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><div></div></div><div>****************</div><div>And here’s a reading out of a slightly earlier draft <a href="https://youtu.be/wBJxQ7ZSAkw" title="Introduction or Chapter 1" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Introduction or Chapter 1</a>; <span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">feedback please to paul[dot]crosland@gmail{dot}com</span></div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-7005262129816276982021-02-12T09:00:00.000+00:002021-02-12T09:00:10.006+00:00Sharing the dream of a Triratna Right Livelihood Team in St Leonards On SeaI find the “Triratna Mantra” playlist (opening track below as YouTube film) a perfect (uplifting) start to the day. This YouTube playlist is now my usual start to the day. <div>I remember the #TriratnaAloka Triptych you show, which can be found in the basement shrine room of the London Buddhist Centre. When I lived there for 6 months (prior to #HastingsPierFire calling me away) our Karuna Trust #RightLivelihood team meditated for 40mins each morning in front of this Tryptich.</div><div><br></div><div>Now having established a role as #PaulCroslandIndependentCandidate & become clear how to build welfare in the most deprived part of SouthEast England, the time is ripe for the Tiratna Household that I’ve asked Alobhin to lead. Whilst his lead would be in establishing a harmonious Buddhist Household, mine would be in establishing the Aspiring Dr Ambedkars of St Leonards on sea (#ADAOSLOS) as effective in addressing the needs of the “downtrodden”. This #RightLivelihood project is one of the three projects dearest to my heart* - please see the #<font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%23PaulCroslandAndAlobhin" title="PaulCroslandAndAlobhin" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PaulCroslandAndAlobhin</a> films to feel this palpably. </font></div><div><br></div><div>May all here be well & if you can’t be well, then I wish for you that you be strong.<div style="text-align: left;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pi8olpp1bCo?modestbranding=1&title=&showinfo=0&rel=0&controls=0&disablekb=0&autohide=0&play=0&hidden=0&playsInline=1&iv_load_policy=3&mute=0&enablejsapi=1&background=1&html5=1" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></iframe><br></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">* The other two projects I cultivate most carefully:</div><div style="text-align: left;">1) #InvestInTheFestivalOfTheNewSociety2066 (FOTNS2066)</div><div style="text-align: left;">2) The next (five?) book(s) to be written by #PaulCroslandDraftAuthor, starting with “The Myth Of The Heartless Tory; <font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%23BeyondPolarisationInPolitics" title="#BeyondPolarisationInPolitics" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">#BeyondPolarisationInPolitics</a></font>”</div>Paul Croslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654739719341326479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29430411.post-88031528824328534712021-02-02T04:00:00.000+00:002021-02-02T04:00:48.415+00:00Lockdown Mental Health Crisis
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="display: inline !important;"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-align: left; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1UDxMOHRDoKl34tjbQvIEqbsCBz4cpmw8" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1UDxMOHRDoKl34tjbQvIEqbsCBz4cpmw8" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">December 2020 was overwhelming for many; including me; leading to early 2021 #LockdownMentalHealthCrisis. #PaulCroslandDraftAuthor has been through the whole #BipolarWarriorCycle & undertaken a #PandemicEraReEvaluation of Projects: <a href="http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-compass-of-political-convergence.html" title="http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-compass-of-political-convergence.html">http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-compass-of-political-convergence.html</a><span style="display: inline !important;"> </span> Now the #BookOf2021 is “The #MythOfTheHeartlessTory”. (The strapline: trust those who do most to get their #PoliticalOpponents’ voices heard”).</span></font></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline !important;"></span></font></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline !important;"> </span><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1DIw6r6MnomJVpBb2R3rkw553lWOwIs7V" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1DIw6r6MnomJVpBb2R3rkw553lWOwIs7V" style="color: rgb(69, 81, 84); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 12pt; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></font></div><p></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the #BookOf2022 is oriented to attracting investors in the #FOTNS2066*; </span></font></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the #BookOf2023 is #LevelUpOurLife & the #BookOf2024 (inshallah) is (provisionally) to be #PaulCroslandDraftEditor’s Collaborative #NVCplus “Magnum Opus”: “Getting #GrassrootsConvergentFacilitation To The Top”. PreOrder via donations to <a href="https://PayPal.Me/RefugeTreeWoods" title="https://PayPal.Me/RefugeTreeWoods" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 12pt; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">https://PayPal.Me/RefugeTreeWoods</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline !important;"> </span></span></font></span></p>
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