Saturday, December 01, 2007
The Greens Come of Age?
The Greens have voted by 73-27% to ditch their ridiculous 'dual speaker' system and will now have a single leader. This might seem an obvious thing o do to most of us, but it has been caused bitter divisions among the Greens. It could indeed now cause a schism in the Party. If the Greens are really to come of age and demonstrate political maturity the minority must now accept the majority vote. They should now elect Caroline Lucas as leader and have done with it. The is the acceptable face of the Greens and is so nice that you almost want to cuddle her, rather than argue with her. Rupert Read rejoices HERE.
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Is this the Rupert Read whose biog on the UEA website lists all the countries he has visited, but he wants us to stop taking flights. There is a word for someone like that.
Better than Derek Wall, who is a paranoid schizophrenic, as exhibited by when he said that nuclear power stations cause ID cards.
The Greens, "political maturity"... Surely Sirrah, thou jest.?
Cuddle Caroline Lucas? That is seriously depraved.
I have to say that I, too, don't feel like cuddling Caroline Lucas. I have just found some photos of her, and those stern eyebrows and the severe hairstyle would put me off.
Even so, it looks like the Greens are getting their act together. I have always thought of them as really no more than a pressure/lobby group, and feel that they were far more effective in the days before they tried to turn themselves into a political party. Big mistake, that!
In answer to Norfolk Blogger:
yes, I used to fly sometimes for business and pleasure. I don't any more. You will note, if you goto my UEA website, that I haven't flown for a long while -- that is how it will stay.
However, the real point is that we need legislation that will include the costs to our planetary life-system of flying inside the cost that each person pays for flying. It is a scandal that motorists and rail passengers pay fuel duty, while air companies, whose flying is far more damaging to the environment, do not.
That is why I'm excited about Friday's vote, that Iain reports in this post. I think that we Greens now have a chance for a step change in our electoral success, and we may be able to start seriously influencing national politics within a few years.
I remeber when the Environment \party, as they then were, were demonstrating against concorde because the exhaust it produced qwould bring on the global ice age.
Perhaps Rupert should only fly by Concorde.
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