The Green Party Manifesto

Deskdiary | 14:12 Tue 14th Apr 2015 | News

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On a scale of 1 to 10, how barking mad are The Green Party?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32300555

I found the pledge to ensure the highest wage in any business is no more than ten times the lowest wage especially amusing.

Do they call themselves Green because of their environmental credentials, or because that is the colour behind their ears?

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mikey4444

DeskDiary...does it really matter one way of the other ?

The Greens are like vegetarians...they enthuse and interest but rarely persuade.

They mean no harm !

mushroom25

the following appeared in the Brighton press under a story concerning the erstwhile leader of the council, the delightfully named Mr Jason Kitcat, and who might seek to lead the council after he stepped down (as he said he would):-

Who Will Lead? The Greens can be broadly divided into three factions:
– the Watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside: ex-Labour dissidents who long for the days of Jim Callaghan and Michael Foot)
– the Ethereals: David-Icke-esque crystals-and-chakras loons whose idea of ‘sustainable living’ is to advertise their own potato peelings on ‘Freecycle’ as “suitable for an art installation. Will swap for a small puppy.”
– the Malthusians: who quite rightly believe humanity is going to hell in a handbasket and we’re ALL DOOMED unless we stop cutting down the rainforests, burning fossil fuels and keeping millions of turkeys in lightless concrete bunkers attached to mechanical w**king machines.

whiskeryron

I do not agree Deskdiary, I like what they are saying in their manifesto.

mikey4444

Mush....what on earth would turkeys need with walking machines ...:o)

Baldric

This Country could not afford a Green Government,
we have enough problems every time Labour get in!

mushroom25

don't shoot the messenger, I only writ what was there.

but in this case, think more of what it was that ivor biggun sang about, and which did him good like it bloody well should.

:-)

mikey4444

Mush.... as a boy growing up in the 60's, we were always being warned off excessive walking. The difficulty is, that nobody took the trouble to define
"excessive" ! We were also warned that it would make us blind.

But I was having so much fun, that I thought I might continue until I needed glasses !

jim360

TMI.

ToraToraTora

mushroom25

taking the railways back into public ownership won't deliver a green agenda, unless they're only talking about passenger operations. logistics in the UK is a mess, due mainly to the road network being utterly choked for large parts of the day. for their green agenda, they need railfreight, but the only way to grow the rail freight business is to let the present open-access operators get on with the job, and provide them with the infrastructure they need with which to do it.

the only other alternative is to allow 80T trucks on our roads, and since another of the green manifesto promises is "no more road building", that could only end in disaster.

Baldric

Is it true that Mikey still does not wear Glasses?
;o)