Vote GREEN.

You get castrated after 3 children, then get a far out and freaky token to buy a gallon of organic cider .

 

Next thing you know and they'll be wanting to scrap anything that does less than 60mpg! I used to be a member of the Official Monster Raving Loony party and I thought their policies were zany but the greens surpass them by a mile! I call them the PITS party - Pie In The Sky!

 

Oh dear - click the interview audio....

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...y-leader-mind-blank-manifesto-natalie-bennett


Hate industry, can't figure out how to pay for things without it.


That's the worst part - I'm sure everyone wants an ethical underpinning to business and corporations - but these dicks take the lead with the loudest voices and stupid non nonsensical arguments that hand it on a plate to those that have no intention of looking after the planet.

 

Sweet jaysus, that's painful to listen to

 

I think the Green agenda is aspirational but as I work within an organisation that has a larger "green" team than is possibly necessary and where engineering is significantly underfunded and props up sustainability. We have 5 people in our engineering team and 7 in our sustainability team (including a director)and frankly their output is negligible. It is a cottage industry with poor credentials and if it was run by engineers might actually cut some of the BS and actually achieve something tangible. It is toooo political and often makes no sense.

As for me changing my lifestyle. I pay for the construction of a "green" tram system every time I park at work and some of my council tax pays for it too. The nearest the tram gets to my house is..... actually where I work. Theres another issue - if someone suggested running trains down residential streets they would be committed. Call it a tram and that's apparently something different.

 

She means well...possibly

 

Who mentioned trams???

 

She would be better spending her time watching cats do funny things on U Tube - or peeing off back to Australia. I'm sure they will listen to her.

 

My goodness me, did they just grab a random passerby in to be interviewed.

Shall I vote Greens and trust them to look after society? Hmmmmm! I think not.

 

Whilst I agree that many of their policies are going to be unpopular, given our addiction to unsustainable consumerism, if you look at the bigger picture, and in the long term, (as opposed to conniving to secure a victory at the next election) you have to admit that from an ideological perspective, only the Green Party are prepared to address the real issues that others simply dismiss...
as the old native american proverb goes:

Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught
will we realize that we can't eat money

 

But none of that is happening so we're gonna be rate

 

Clever old native American knowing all about currency or was he not so old with an account with Well Fargo?

 

It's paraphrasing the statement below, made by a spokesman for the Abenaki who lived on a reserve in Canada:

Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.

 

hughie ? opportunity knocks ? double your money ?

 

Just think of the lost tax revenue in fuel use and free road tax for 'green' cars- billions of £s, I wonder what costs they are going to cut....

 

Oh man. I can't listen to it.
But raising the issues and getting people thinking about how far we've lurched towards a 'money talks' materialistic society I reckon is good. Along with Welby and co. If only because it shows up the greed of so many big corporations and maybe, just maybe, trims their expansionist ways a little. The more they talk the more appalling the HSBCs of this world appear and public opinion shifts.
Well I hope so.

 

I agree with you and I hate all the big money men ripping us all of and the big companies not paying their tax and all the rest of it but that don't mean we have to vote in a load of hippys who talk nonsense and make stuff up to scare us either does it

 

Nope. But I'm still glad they're there balancing things a little. They'll never get in anyway.
And I'm part hippy, I'll have you know! Every time I get in the van I have a terrible urge to braid my hair. Only just managing to resist a rainbow window sticker.

 

We've all got em on here mate

 

Think this must be one of the worst ever Election run ups in years. Pledges to do wonderful things for everyone seem to be spouted forth every day