Re: The Greens... Archived Message Posted by Gerard on May 5, 2019, 10:34 am, in reply to "The Greens..." "I don’t know what other people’s thoughts are, but I have always found Caroline Lucas to be a distinctly suspect character. NGO background, polished, and managerial - if she really cared about the environment, surely her strategy for a general election would be to encourage people to vote for Corbyn?" I've been a Green voter for decades (with a few exceptions when they don't stand), and voted Green in the LCE, however, I fully intend to vote for Corbyn (not for Labour), at any general election if he is still leading his party. I've met Caroline Lucas a couple of times..she's an academic wedded to certain mainstream academic assumptions and their status quo...my fellow campaigners and I had terrible trouble trying to get her to accept that both municipal and commercial waste (esp. plastic), incineration is as dangerous a practice (in its own way), and deserving of opposition as are both nuclear power and fracking...We found that the implications of opposing "waste-to-heat", the loss-leader that is both administrated and run by the oil industry for its own purposes, are too profound for many green-welly wearing (so-called), environmentalists, it's only recently that Green politicians like Natalie Bennet have begun to listen more carefully to our concerns and begun to raise the profile of anti-incineration campaigning within the Green Party. It is, however, true that the Greens (incl. Lucas), oppose nuclear power whilst the other parties (incl. Labour), still believe that it represents a carbon friendly solution to Climate Change, so a Green vote should not be seen as a wasted vote or a pro-establishment act..without the Greens articulating an anti-nuclear stance such would not be either part of our political debate or narrative of opposition... https://twitter.com/i/moments/937997845344473088?from_editor=true https://twitter.com/i/moments/889745996347052033 Message Thread: The Greens... - Sergei Kirov May 4, 2019, 12:43 pm Re: The Greens... - johnlilburne May 4, 2019, 1:45 pm Re: The Greens... - Sergei Kirov May 4, 2019, 1:59 pm Re: The Greens... - johnlilburne May 4, 2019, 2:18 pm Establishment: Don't forget to eat your greens. Nm - Shyaku May 5, 2019, 8:22 pm good observation Sergey, and agree on this plot.. - David Macilwain May 4, 2019, 2:34 pm Re: The Greens... - Gerard May 5, 2019, 10:34 am LCE results - Gerard May 5, 2019, 10:37 am You make good points G and thanks for the 'insider' info : ) - Tomski May 5, 2019, 5:04 pm Re: You make good points G and thanks for the 'insider' info : ) - Gerard May 6, 2019, 12:32 pm   Searching