Greens pledge to halt ‘all new fossil fuel projects’ and tax top 1% in manifesto
The Greens have pledged to stop “all new fossil fuel projects” in the UK as they launched their manifesto promising to “be more ambitious than any other party”.
Co-leaders of the party Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer also pledged to “mend broken Britain” by overhauling the tax system at their manifesto launch event in Brighton and Hove.
The disturbing thing about Greens is how childlike and unserious their cult is. We have a genuine and widespread problem with infantile adult behaviour, but Greens have made a political party of it, based on an outlook only a little more realistic than an Enid Blyton story.
The Enid Blyton comparison is an exaggeration of course, but it is not so much intended to disparage Greens as to highlight how disturbing it is that adults can believe and behave as they do. Adults make necessary concessions to the real world, Greens seem to have found a way to avoid that and in so doing, avoid an important aspect of adulthood.
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A "fossil fuel project" might include filling up at your local Tesco.
The infantile aspect is really prominent. They come across like earnest children taking part in a simulation, like that "Children's Parliament" event they run in Westminster. A solemnly-worked out set of policies on defence, international relations, crime, and the economy. What an absolute waste of time.
Childlike is a good description, as any kids will muck around and do something stupid, and know full well that they'll never get called out except if they really have done something serious.
Sam - the "Children's Parliament" comparison is a good one. We can become too familiar with Green behaviour and lose sight of how infantile it is, disturbingly so.
Scrobs - yes it's very much like kids mucking about without being called out, so they become dafter and dafter.
Parties like the Greens can say whatever rubbish they want, as they'll never get into power. On the other side of the coin, Labour are talking the same drivel and they seem certain to get into power.
Which reinforces my belief that it's not only childish attitudes in political parties, but also in the voters who plan on voting Labour simply because they've had enough of the Conservatives.
My brian can't comprehend that they actually think things will be better under Labour
Bucko - I can't comprehend it either. It makes no sense at all, many people don't seem to pay anywhere near enough attention to what's going on in the world.
If the watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) plan to halt fossil fuel programmes, that may mean leaving oil exploration alone, based on the recent scientific study that oil is a mineral fuel rather than a fossil fuel. Not that this matters, for the reason mentioned earlier
Penseivat
Penseivat - many watermelons don't seem to have a clear understanding of what they mean by 'fossil fuels' or 'oil' or even 'plastic' and 'pollution'.
Near-topic... There was some sort of citizens round table thing written up in the Telegraph last week. Format, a few fairly normal-looking ordinary people sat round a table, giving their views and ideas. So far so unexceptionable.
But they were all in favour of: higher tax thresholds, higher pensions, earlier retirement, free school meals for all, more money for the NHS, subsidised you-name-it, "free" all-sorts-of-stuff, and so on. All of them. They didn't actually mention a free pony for everyone, but you had the feeling they'd have got round to it fairly quickly.
This is what we're up against. These people have the vote. We're doomed, aren't we?
Peter - yes with voters like that we're doomed. Being innumerate seems to be a major part of the problem, the inability to apply basic arithmetic to all those freebies. Also the notion of trade-offs seems to be missing. So basic it could be taught in schools.
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