Green Party turns a redder shade of green
Discussion
Anybody hear new leader of the Green Party ranting through her conference speech...?
News story --------> http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2008-09-06-NewDe...
Speech --------> http://www.greenparty.org.uk/speeches/08-09-caroli...
Red or Green, Green or Red...?
By getting more Greens elected in Europe, we’ll be helping to defend social and environmental rights.
We’ll be challenging the increasing corporate influence in Brussels.
The gap between rich and poor in this country is becoming a chasm.
Inequality is at Victorian levels, and fuel prices are more punitive by the day.
Of rising fuel prices...
This money, pulled from your pocket by the basic need to stay warm, doesn’t disappear into thin air.
It perpetuates the glaring injustices in our society, visibly widening the gap between the poorest and richest.
It disappears into the wallets of the men (and yes, they are usually men) at the top of the global pyramid of injustice.
Whose corporations are robbing from the poor to give to the rich and they know it. And it’s about time they learned that in a progressive democracy, there is no place for robber barons
Of re-educating us to live in caves and eat potatoes...
Take the economy.
We don’t push the kind of materialism that leaves people unfulfilled, kills the human spirit and destroys the natural world.
More people are now realising that the pursuit of possessions doesn’t always make us happier, that consumption isn’t an end it itself, that the richness of our lives isn’t about just how many things we own.
But the three old parties can’t understand that – they’re too out of touch with people’s real aspirations that go beyond shallow, short-term consumerism.
Of really getting a grip on you....
We need a Green New Deal.
First, a major structural transformation of the regulation of national and international financial systems, together with major changes to taxation systems.
And second, a sustained programme to invest in energy conservation and renewable energies, coupled with effective demand management and reduction.
Bite your lips, folks...
I want to see a country where streets belong to people again, not cars.
Where public transport is clean and affordable, where shops are close to home, where kids can play outside their houses.
Ladies and gemmulum, I give you Dr Caroline Lucas, Queen of Green---->
Speech wasn't all gloom, though...GO, PLOD..
Last month, I joined many other Greens at the Kingsnorth Climate Camp on the proposed site of the UK’s first coal FIRED power station in over 30 years.
And I was horrified to witness yet another attack on our civil liberties, with the police aggressively raiding the camp on several occasions.
Everyone who entered the site was searched.
Police officers took away anything that could be used for “illegal activity”, with efforts being made to strip protestors of such hardcore weapons of choice as bits of carpet, marker pens, and board games.
And in the absence of any serious threat, the police clearly found it necessary to justify their presence with an unprovoked attack -
on personal hygiene,
confiscating biodegradable soap, and yes, toilet paper.
News story --------> http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2008-09-06-NewDe...
Speech --------> http://www.greenparty.org.uk/speeches/08-09-caroli...
Red or Green, Green or Red...?
By getting more Greens elected in Europe, we’ll be helping to defend social and environmental rights.
We’ll be challenging the increasing corporate influence in Brussels.
The gap between rich and poor in this country is becoming a chasm.
Inequality is at Victorian levels, and fuel prices are more punitive by the day.
Of rising fuel prices...
This money, pulled from your pocket by the basic need to stay warm, doesn’t disappear into thin air.
It perpetuates the glaring injustices in our society, visibly widening the gap between the poorest and richest.
It disappears into the wallets of the men (and yes, they are usually men) at the top of the global pyramid of injustice.
Whose corporations are robbing from the poor to give to the rich and they know it. And it’s about time they learned that in a progressive democracy, there is no place for robber barons
Of re-educating us to live in caves and eat potatoes...
Take the economy.
We don’t push the kind of materialism that leaves people unfulfilled, kills the human spirit and destroys the natural world.
More people are now realising that the pursuit of possessions doesn’t always make us happier, that consumption isn’t an end it itself, that the richness of our lives isn’t about just how many things we own.
But the three old parties can’t understand that – they’re too out of touch with people’s real aspirations that go beyond shallow, short-term consumerism.
Of really getting a grip on you....
We need a Green New Deal.
First, a major structural transformation of the regulation of national and international financial systems, together with major changes to taxation systems.
And second, a sustained programme to invest in energy conservation and renewable energies, coupled with effective demand management and reduction.
Bite your lips, folks...
I want to see a country where streets belong to people again, not cars.
Where public transport is clean and affordable, where shops are close to home, where kids can play outside their houses.
Ladies and gemmulum, I give you Dr Caroline Lucas, Queen of Green---->
Speech wasn't all gloom, though...GO, PLOD..
Last month, I joined many other Greens at the Kingsnorth Climate Camp on the proposed site of the UK’s first coal FIRED power station in over 30 years.
And I was horrified to witness yet another attack on our civil liberties, with the police aggressively raiding the camp on several occasions.
Everyone who entered the site was searched.
Police officers took away anything that could be used for “illegal activity”, with efforts being made to strip protestors of such hardcore weapons of choice as bits of carpet, marker pens, and board games.
And in the absence of any serious threat, the police clearly found it necessary to justify their presence with an unprovoked attack -
on personal hygiene,
confiscating biodegradable soap, and yes, toilet paper.
Crazy Green Lady said:
And in the absence of any serious threat, the police clearly found it necessary to justify their presence with an unprovoked attack -
on personal hygiene,
confiscating biodegradable soap, and yes, toilet paper.
It's not like they would have been using the soap anyway...on personal hygiene,
confiscating biodegradable soap, and yes, toilet paper.
Swilly said:
beanbag said:
Stigmundfreud said:
She isn't even fit 
Feminists usually aren't.....I reckon it's an image problem as they grew up.....
mybrainhurts said:
Inequality is at Victorian levels, and fuel prices are more punitive by the day.
I love quotes like this. I don't see any normal person in this country who:a) lives in a workhouse
b) cannot get an education
c) cannot vote
d) cannot access social services
e) doesn't have free medical care
f) shares a privvy with 40 other people
etc...
Parrot of Doom said:
mybrainhurts said:
Inequality is at Victorian levels, and fuel prices are more punitive by the day.
I love quotes like this. I don't see any normal person in this country who:a) lives in a workhouse
b) cannot get an education
c) cannot vote
d) cannot access social services
e) doesn't have free medical care
f) shares a privvy with 40 other people
etc...
TVR Moneypit said:
Of rising fuel prices...
This money, pulled from your pocket by the basic need to stay warm, doesn’t disappear into thin air.
Exactly what I was thinking. The vast majority of the fuel costs are tax anyway. The gov't tax us to hell and back, then these pricks have the bare-faced cheek to claim that the oil companies are making a profit, so tax them as well!This money, pulled from your pocket by the basic need to stay warm, doesn’t disappear into thin air.
TVR Moneypit said:
No love, it dissapears into the ever deepening chasm known as Gordens Black Hole.
Gordon Brown must be wanking himself into a coma over all this.John Major was right (even if he wasn't on about the Greens), a shower of b
ds.
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