Green Party on a green surge....

[SteveA]

Are you sure its there membership growing, its probably just the very fast shrinkage of Lib-dem support:sneaky2:

 

Haha! Yes I'm sure there is an element of shrinkage at the Lib-Dems.... they've not performed admirably..... and I actuallyvoted Lib-Dem in the last election

[Two Acres]

Someone's not being disrespectful to the great lady surely!

 

Well, it wasn't a good experience was it Wood wasp

[Two Acres]

Haha! Yes I'm sure there is an element of shrinkage at the Lib-Dems.... they've not performed admirably..... and I actuallyvoted Lib-Dem in the last election

 

So, did I mate Know I now what a lying bunch of shucksters they are they'll never see my vote, ever, ever, ever,again

[Wood wasp]

I think it was, remember just exactly what state Britain was in when she came to power - we couldn't even keep the lights on!

 

And whether you like her or not, or agreed with her or not she never acted in personal interest but always in what she believed was best for Britain. The historical archives being released confirm this.

[Two Acres]

I think it was, remember just exactly what state Britain was in when she came to power - we couldn't even keep the lights on!

 

And whether you like her or not, or agreed with her or not she never acted in personal interest but always in what she believed was best for Britain. The historical archives being released confirm this.

 

I think it was an utter nightmare. The destruction of the industrial north of our great country unforgiveable.

 

You're right though to say that she did believe that she was acting in the national interest, she was just misguided.

[Wood wasp]

What industries exactly? Most were massively inefficient propped up by massive subsidies, it was refusal to adapt and union intransigence that finished them off.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

be careful what you wish for.

 

They're a total sell out much more interested in a socialist/liberal agenda than true environmental protection. I wonder how many of their "members" know what they actually stand for or more to the point how many would support them if they promoted policies which would genuinely help protect the environment.

 

The fact is that to help preserve the planet would require such a change of lifestyle for such a large percentage of the population never mind it's effect on "world trade" that it's just not going to happen.

 

Which is why the principle of mankind surviving on this planet is ultimately doomed.

 

:thumbup1:

 

Well intentioned but ultimately the impossible dream of comfortable middle class hippies and career anarchists.

 

The very policies that would be required to truly create a 'sustainable' existence of humankind on this planet would be so abhorrent to the hemp sandalled, horse hair jumpered, bearded, yoghurt eater as to make their dreadlocks curl!

 

Peace &

 

Camerons problem is that Farage will be a challenge mostly to him as their policys are most similar and UKIP will be mostly after Tory votes. He is of the opinion that the Greens will be a similarish pain in the arse to Labour as a lot of their socialist policies are in the same vein but without them there Milliband will have too easy a time of it while Farage gives him (Cameron) a bit of a kicking.

 

The problem is that it was some sort of independant panel who adjudged that Farage warranted inclusion while the Greens didn't so he's out on a bit on a limb with this one it seems.

 

Milliband doesn't need the greens to make him look like an idiot......

 

:laugh1:

 

Are you sure its there membership growing, its probably just the very fast shrinkage of Lib-dem support:sneaky2:

 

:thumbup:

[wrsni]

I think it was, remember just exactly what state Britain was in when she came to power - we couldn't even keep the lights on!

 

Yes there were problems with British industry, I was working in it when she came to power so could see it first hand. But shutting it all down making hundreds of thousands redundant and wiping out so many skills and traditions of manufacturing that will never return was hardly the actions of a great leader.

 

If you went to the doctor feeling really poorly and he sorted your ills by putting a bullet in your head he'd hardly be hailed as a medical genius would he!

[Wood wasp]

But that's not really what happened, she didn't "shut them down" for the hell of it. These industries were haemorrhaging money and mainly the unions wouldn't let them change or restructure in any way. And as usual after a labour govt the nation was totally and utterly skint so there wasn't money to keep subsidising.

[Two Acres]

Yes there were problems with British industry, I was working in it when she came to power so could see it first hand. But shutting it all down making hundreds of thousands redundant and wiping out so many skills and traditions of manufacturing that will never return was hardly the actions of a great leader.

 

If you went to the doctor feeling really poorly and he sorted your ills by putting a bullet in your head he'd hardly be hailed as a medical genius would he!

 

Completely agree Wrsni

 

Lets not forget what the Tories did to Liverpool. Remember Geofffrey Howe advised Thatcher to leave the whole city to 'managed decline'. Hardly a tea party was it?