tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post578583890743804044..comments2023-08-31T15:14:58.287-07:00Comments on London Green Left Blog: A New Party for the Right ‘Centre’ Ground?Mike Shaughnessyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796480031110991460noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post-3757691785125906012018-04-16T14:21:52.912-07:002018-04-16T14:21:52.912-07:00PR is the only game in town for the Greens. Effect...PR is the only game in town for the Greens. Effective campaigning on our key policies in between elections and during elections is all well and good and necessary, but at the end of the day, only pressure on Labour Party parliamentary candidates to commit to a fair voting system will produce results. Our policy is still "Electoral Alliances FOR PR ". And the same would apply if ever a new centrist part was to emerge between now and 2022. nicole haydock https://www.blogger.com/profile/12723918923779976976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post-30726264838308128432018-04-10T19:33:44.831-07:002018-04-10T19:33:44.831-07:00I sometimes wonder whether the Greens should ever ...I sometimes wonder whether the Greens should ever have become a political party fighting elections. We are no further forward now than when I joined 30 years ago, still on 1% in the opinion polls, although we do have Caroline Lucas as the only Green MP elected anywhere in the world in a first past the post system. Maybe we should have done what the neoliberals did, targetting opinion formers in the media and academia to push their free market fundamentalist ideas, and deliberately avoiding party politics. When social democracy failed in the 1970s, their ideas were ready. Now that their ideas are failing, we need to get green ideas to the forefront of the minds of opinion formersChris Keenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14110640609027008056noreply@blogger.com