Vote GREEN.

Where did you find this picture of Mr Fishtrousers?

 

what a load of bo cks

 

llo

 

Maybe I could make my fortune by starting up a company that manufactures ethnic peace bicycles.

Seriously though - if they really are trying to become big enough to possibly be a junior partner in a coalition government, they have got to realise that people will not vote for you if you don't acknowledge that you need to address WHY people use their cars so much. Merely thrashing them until they get on the buses is not going to work - people will dig their heels in.

 

I think we already have greens amoungst us ,i spotted these in brighton , well known haunt for the greens

 

Wouldn't it be easier to give the greens a bit of land somewhere, some tools, some seeds, a few animals, a wind turbine and a couple of solar panels and let them get on with it.

 

I guess they have the luxury of being able to say what they want in their manifesto, without a realistic chance of ever having to deliver.
Because of that, they can look at the bigger picture, i.e we're destroying the planet, causing mass extinctions, populating at an unsustainable rate, etc.
I voted green last time, I think I will again because the other parties are such a shower. Caroline Lucas is my MP by the way.

 

& presumably have your bay cubed at the nearest scrapyard/re-cycling centre?

 

Had your bins emptied recently ?

 

No, because owning an old car is the most environmentally friendly form of motoring. Pollution caused by manufacture is far greater than pollution caused during the life of a vehicle. Therefore proving that I am far more environmentally friendly than a T5 driver.

 

I feel a caption competition coming on.

 

That may work in small countries or large cities, try it in a country the size of Australia. We have a 40 mile round trip to the supermarket & a bus runs twice a day (& then only during school terms).

 

luxury!
litlle ungawi has to walk twice as far to fetch dirty rainwater and urine mix in an old rusty diesel can balanced on her head.
it's tough in birmingham.

 

And it's 'effect' not 'affect'. Never vote for a party that didn't listen in primary skool.

 

Only if you regard the use of resources and generation of CO2 as pollution, which the greens do. If you think we should have clean air, driving old cars is exactly the opposite of green and if we had kept all of the old cars running we would be living in a giant cloud of smog.

 

The green party leader is a convict, so maybe she should go back over to your side of the world and leave us alone.

 

Our last 2 Prime Mincers have been bloody pommies & look at the mess they've got us in

 

I was listening to the achievements of the Green Party in Brighton ...
They won't get voted in again..

 

They want to get rid of the monarchy so they can't be all that bad can they ( apart from having an Ozzie as their leader) - quote below:-

The Queen could move into a council house, the leader of the Green Party has suggested as a result of her plans to abolish the monarchy.

The party would remove the royal family from Buckingham Palace, but Green leader Natalie Bennett said she was "sure we can find a council house for her" as a result of their programme to build more.

- here's a few more of their policies :-

Ms Bennett hinted that the Greens would have a top rate of tax higher than 50p, with a wealth tax on multi-millionaires as part of a plan to "restructure society with the rich paying their way and multinationals paying taxes".

The party has benefited from a membership surge and the broadcasters have now invited Ms Bennett to take part in two televised debates ahead of the general election in recognition of its popularity - and David Cameron's insistence that the Greens be included following the decision to let Ukip's Nigel Farage take part.

Ms Bennett told The Times her party was attracting disaffected Labour supporters and "anti-Ukip voters".

She said: "People are really hungry for something different. There is an element of us being fresh and new, but we are also talking about ideas, optimism and changing things.

"We need to restructure society with the rich paying their way and multinationals paying taxes. People sometimes say to me, 'I saw you and I stopped shouting at the TV and throwing things at it. I finally agree with a politician'."

Among their radical policies are the abolition of the monarchy, but Ms Bennett said the Queen would not be left homeless.

"I can't see that the Queen is ever going to be really poor, but I'm sure we can find a council house for her - we're going to build lots more," she said.

The Green leader defended her party's economic policies, despite critics' warnings, claiming that GDP was not as important as whether people had a "better quality life".

Asked whether she wanted the country to go into recession, she said: "It depends if you want to measure success by GDP. Even the people who invented GDP said it's a lousy tool for progress. The age of significant growth is over. We need to look at human measures now, not profits, but a better quality life."

She added: " We have been driven by this neoliberal Thatcherite idea that what motivates people is money. We want to focus on the fact that people don't just want to work to earn more and more, they want to do other things that often aren't recognised and valued."

Ms Bennett attacked "parasitical" global firms who did not pay tax and urged people to shop locally.

"These big multinationals are paying no taxes, making their staff work incredibly hard with no security on very little pay," she said.

"Meanwhile, they are using the resources that we pay for with our taxes. Amazon vans are using our roads to deliver, their workers are using our NHS to keep healthy, but the company isn't paying taxes to help ... they're parasitical."

The Greens would raise the minimum wage to £10 an hour, with a guaranteed £71 a week universal basic income, whether they were working or not.

"It would be a universal basic income from the state, children would get a bit less," she said. "There would be hardly any administration costs because it would go to every member of society. The assumption is that those of working age will top it up, but pensioners and the disabled will need extra help. It means that no one falls through the gaps."

Half of the £280 billion cost of the policy would come from tax, she indicated, with the rest made up of money already paid out in benefits like jobseekers' allowance.

" We are going to tax the rich more. In our last manifesto we had the top rate of tax at 50p for anyone earning over £100,000. I think it is going to be higher this time," she said.

There would also be a tax of 1% or 2% on people worth more than £3 million.

"People say to me that the rich will dodge it, but in some of the countries that already have it there is a simple rule that says if you haven't declared something on your wealth tax, you don't own it."

That would mean the state could "potentially" seize assets from the wealthy, she indicated.

 

Clearly, getting rid of the monarchy would be a good thing, but there's not a lot else that makes sense.