Saturday, August 29, 2009

Hove


Organisers discover reason for low attendance at Conference.

8 comments:

  1. Ah the great big hand of Green Party democracy...

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  2. Can you "see" the animated gif?

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  3. Mhm. Does it mean we've all won the national lottery?

    p.s. your comments form doesn't play nicely in my firefox, and I've got no idea why.

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  4. It means that every time I set out to do something, like attend conference, the big hand of fate steps in and stops me.

    PS I've changed the comments settings.

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  5. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letter-roots-of-the-green-partys-political-failure-1497978.html

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  6. Interesting, thankyou.

    As Lesley Whittaker, one of the original founders of PEOPLE (which became the Ecology Party, which became the Green Party) put it in 1993:

    "Their policies address the problems they perceive. Their approach to government and administration is that of natural anarchists - they rely on the individual's sense of responsibility, on informed co-operation, not compulsion."

    Oh dear.

    "Theirs is a party appropriate to a far nicer society than the one we live in ..."

    Sums up so much of the essential problem we (humans, that is) have, with ourselves.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/too-nice-to-turn-people-green-active-right-from-the-start-lesley-whittaker-explains-why-environmental-party-politics-have-become-irrelevant-1496994.html

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  7. Plus ça change!

    "Now that the oil wealth has all been spent on presents for the rich, we must use the recession as our friend." - 1993

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