Why the Green Party is shit

[Mr.Bishie]

I don't know why people here have it in for the Green Party??? I have never been a member, but I normally vote for them (except in 2010 when I could see that voting Liberal was the only way to bring about some progressive change) and most Green types seem to want a fairer, cleaner society. I would have thought they were exactly what most people here want.

Say what you like about the Green Party, but they're nice people.

lol

*Apart from our AuntiStella of course, who is fucking ace!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Who is that then?

Where might someone find pointers on this, I wonder..?

 

[Louis MacNeice]

I don't know why people here have it in for the Green Party??? I have never been a member, but I normally vote for them (except in 2010 when I could see that voting Liberal was the only way to bring about some progressive change) and most Green types seem to want a fairer, cleaner society. I would have thought they were exactly what most people here want.

Say what you like about the Green Party, but they're nice people.

That went well then.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[SpineyNorman]

Lol

 

[Sea Star]

lol

*Apart from our AuntiStella of course, who is fucking ace!

Thankyou & I've been thinking of leaving for a while tbh

 

[Nylock]

....(except in 2010 when I could see that voting Liberal was the only way to bring about some progressive change)...

Hahahahahahaha! No, please stop! My fucking sides!!!


...wipes away tears...

 

[Sherman Tank]

Where might someone find pointers on this, I wonder..?

it's a rather long thread, I was hoping you may have some quick examples at hand.

And yes very droll everyone, I hold up my hands to voting Liberal being a mistake, but in 2010 I didn't have much else to go on.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

it's a rather long thread, I was hoping you may have some quick examples at hand.

And yes very droll everyone, I hold up my hands to voting Liberal being a mistake, but in 2010 I didn't have much else to go on.

Only history and thinking.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[butchersapron]

Wow - make sure that you wait till the smug at the end.

 

[LDC]

Wow - make sure that you wait till the smug at the end.

Holy fucking christ that is awful. And the ethics of using kids like that...?

 

[killer b]

They're actors.

 

[Teaboy]

I dunno. I thought it was quite funny to start with then it went on too long and yeah the ending was just embarrassing.

 

[Celyn]

That was ghastly . By the way, how is voting Green at local elections going to save the NHS? Or is "NHS" just a guaranteed feelgood thing to mention so that it sounds nice and friendly and fluffy?

 

[Artaxerxes]

That was ghastly . By the way, how is voting Green at local elections going to save the NHS? Or is "NHS" just a guaranteed feelgood thing to mention so that it sounds nice and friendly and fluffy?

No political party is going to admit they are basically irrelevant, they always go on about "If we were in charge we'd do X"

Personally I loved that broadcast, the end wasn't great but it pretty much summed up a lot of what politics is these days and little Tim Farron was funny as hell.

 

[treelover]

Thats how parties operate, they have to work on the basis that their policies will come to fruition, manifestos are this made concrete

of course, they don't always carry them out anyway.

 

[Celyn]

Yes, but I'm not sure that "saving the NHS" is within the remit of local councillors. Perhaps it is. If not, then it's a damned annoying thing to promise in local council elections.

 

[Sea Star]

I've quit the Green Party. It's too white, too cis, and too midle class for me.

 

[chilango]

I'm far softer on the Greens than I probably should be, but that was rubbish.

 

[Beermoth]

Don't quite see the point of that. They're basically saying 'mainstream politics is stupid, yeah? Come and join the grown-ups'. But if the Greens actually got a lot of support behind them they'd be entering the arena of stupid and have to respond accordingly. Not because they want to - it's just how the game works.

The Labour cabinet made me laugh, though. Someone knows how to edit.

 

[butchersapron]

Green Party – Greens urge dialogue over library dispute

Greens have today called on the Council and Library Assistants to work together to resolve dispute over shift patterns, after Library Assistants announced their intention to strike. In last year’s city-wide consultation, the public fed back they wanted library opening times to change. This has led to changes in shift patterns for Library Assistants.

Who's doing the imposed shift cuts and wider cuts to the service i wonder?

The Green Party's asst Mayor Daniella Radice.

 

[killer b]

That was ghastly . By the way, how is voting Green at local elections going to save the NHS? Or is "NHS" just a guaranteed feelgood thing to mention so that it sounds nice and friendly and fluffy?

don't forget 'greedy corporations'

 

[Celyn]

don't forget 'greedy corporations'

Oh, I'm sure you're right and it promised to sort out "greedy corporations" as well, but I really couldn't bear to watch it again to be certain.

 

[DotCommunist]

The Greens have got it: alliances can work for Britain’s progressive parties | Zoe Williams

fluffy greens, corbyns stubborn, socialists are dour arseholes. Cheers zoe

vote lucas

and this is blates made up:

I’m not talking exclusively about hatred between Greens and Reds, incidentally, though the guy standing outside the Green party conference saying “another mouth to feed” in a self-righteous monotone every time anyone walked past did remind me how much there is to distinguish between environmentalism and socialism. All progressives prefer to debate their own fine distinctions than the glaring ideological chasm that separates us from the real foes. On dark days, I think this is because purity is part of the mind-set, and the smaller compromises that would create the swell are harder to make than a peace with failure. And on bright days, I think this is because we are simply the more intelligent group, and the work of pointing out what’s wrong with Theresa May – all the meanness of Margaret Thatcher with none of the frankness or ambition – is too obvious to hold our attention. Either way, it bodes ill for meaningful togetherness.

 

[BigTom]

The Greens have got it: alliances can work for Britain’s progressive parties | Zoe Williams

fluffy greens, corbyns stubborn, socialists are dour arseholes. Cheers zoe

vote lucas

and this is blates made up:

I was at the uni yesterday for an hour to play pokemon go, the green party conference was in the area I was riding around and I didn't get told I was another mouth to feed. Obviously this "person" might have been inside or there on a different day or I just missed him or whatever but it does sound very, very, very made up.

 

[DotCommunist]

I was at the uni yesterday for an hour to play pokemon go, the green party conference was in the area I was riding around and I didn't get told I was another mouth to feed. Obviously this "person" might have been inside or there on a different day or I just missed him or whatever but it does sound very, very, very made up.

ennit, just rings false as fuck. Could easily go in the 'guardian is shit' thread as well

 

[free spirit]

ennit, just rings false as fuck. Could easily go in the 'guardian is shit' thread as well

I’m not talking exclusively about hatred between Greens and Reds, incidentally, though the guy standing outside the Green party conference saying “another mouth to feed” in a self-righteous monotone every time anyone walked past did remind me how much there is to distinguish between environmentalism and socialism.

tbh it wouldn't surprise me at all if it were true, there are a few of those types still kicking around the fringes of the party. I've occasionally ended up arguing the toss with the odd one who pops up on some of the green forums.

 

[butchersapron]

Which one you in now?

 

[redsquirrel]

Backing the yellow scum in the Richmond by-election

“I’d now urge Labour to join us in forming a progressive alliance against the forces of Conservatism and narrow-mindedness.”

Chair of Richmond’s Greens, Richard Bennett, said local Liberal Democrats recognised that in the 2018 council elections the parties should work together in some wards “to ensure people get the best chance both of Green partyrepresentation and of a council not controlled by the Conservatives.”

 

[chilango]

Backing the yellow scum in the Richmond by-election

Daft (and suicidal in the long run) move.

 

[inva]

Backing the yellow scum in the Richmond by-election

vacuous tosser John Harris also banging the same drum for the 'progressive alliance':

As strange as it may sound, for the next few weeks, the future of left-of-centre politics might revolve around a verdant corner of west London, where a trailblazing step into a better future has been taken by two underrated revolutionary organisations, the Richmond and Twickenham branch of the Green party, and its counterpart in Kingston-upon-Thames.