Is it time to go green?

2006-05-05T20:25:00.000Z

In this apparent era of consensus politics many argue the “wish washy” subjects come out to play. As parties move closer together on the political spectrum splitting them apart is increasing harder, at least this is the case for the Labour and Conservative frontbench, though increasing those Brownites within labour are pushing the Blair supporters to making way for the parties new era.

Bad timing

Though this idea may be premature, the reform era is at the halfway point, and if you follow the centre-right civil servants and advisors spin this is crunch point, masses will lose jobs within the NHS and Education to make way for the markets. You don’t want to be kicking Blairites out so you stand in the firing line. No. Wait two more years the crunch will have passed and you can step in as the glory beings!

Back to the Green issue. Cameron and his “amigos” are off telling us if we tick there ballot spaces we are actually doing the right thing - “vote blue, go green”. A nice PR stunt, it appeals to all the older electorate who don’t want to see the end off the planet for their children, plus always a winner for the youth who always argue green. Then the informed among you will say, wait it’s okay to shout green, but translate this to policy;

In jumps Cameron’s team – “18month policy review”

So can we say Cameron is green, well maybe, but as for the rest, there is a reverberating no coming from the right of the party, those who hate the issues like this and want to stick to the straight and narrow of low taxes and strict law and order, these are the same older generation who battered John Major for the Maastricht treaty, and will do it again, luckily for Dave the council election fortunes changed last minute with bad news flooding out of the Government, which stopped the right of the party jumping on him to change or get out so they could get the straighter talking Davis on with the job.

**Just to finish frankly..
Even if we reduce are “carbon emissions” to zero tomorrow, it won’t make the slights difference so let this issue go away until America, China and India sign up! The social cost of production will be met by tax, which is at the expense of the consumer; therefore if we want to even stay in the league of competiveness there’s no point in charging more if other nations don’t do the same..

2006-05-05T17:06:00.000Z

Let’s be frank, these local elections show that 75 % (guesstimate) of Britain’s just don’t look beyond the headlines, you ask someone in the street, as the BBC New24 lucky did, which way the voted and what happened, “I’ve just not been happy with the way labour have been wrecking this country for years now”, so let’s analyse the wrecking of this fine country, so seen as it would take me far too long I just looked at the recent PMQs Mr. David Cleland (Tyne Bridge) (Lab): Apart from the minimum wage, statutory holidays, Sure Start, low unemployment, low mortgages, free eye tests, prescriptions, TV licences and bus travel, and the £200 winter fuel allowance for pensioners, 2 million children taken out of poverty, 2 million pensioners taken out of poverty, more teachers, nurses, doctors and police, and lower crime, hospital waiting lists and class sizes, what have the Labour Government done for us?

So let’s not make this a labour/ Blair-ite piece, there are many areas in which they haven’t done so well, a piece of legislation rarely followed, which allows those convicted of crimes to be deported after serving there sentence, effectively double punishment! There’s the old sleaze of horny ministers (Blunkett and Prescott), who as the Daily Mail writer Richard Littlejohn pointed to, “he got caught with his pants down” CAUGHT. Men are men, and as the audience member of Question Time pointed out we call these politicians but none of us would have said no!

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Is it time to go green?