Comments on: French Green Party places third in regional elections

By: Lois Smith

Lois Smith — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:34:59 +0000

Where is your phone # s or your fax # or Address

By: Lois Smith

Lois Smith — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:33:20 +0000

Where is your address and phone # s

By: Dave Schwab

Dave Schwab — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:19:55 +0000

There’s a huge difference between green rhetoric and green policy, and it seems that Europeans are starting to grasp that.

For example, in the UK the Conservative leader has been trying to greenwash his party for several years. However, in a recent poll of their candidates’ priorities, addressing climate change ranked dead last out of 20 or so issues – well behind “building more prisons” and other issues near and dear to the conservative heart. The growing profile of the UK Green Party is an encouraging sign that British voters realize the last thing the environment needs is more hot gas from the mouths of establishment politicians.

Things are even worse in the US, where a president who was supported by many environmentalists is now calling for nuclear power loan guarantees, spewing the dirty lie of clean coal, allowing mountaintop removal and hydraulic fracking to continue, and pushing ahead with expanded offshore drilling.

By: Bolshevik-Leninist

Bolshevik-Leninist — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:58:37 +0000

The resurgence of Les Verts is really surprising. A few years ago people were saying the party was dead because basically every other party had adopted a strong environmentalist stance. “Everyone is a Green now” they said. That left little reason to vote for Greens themselves. You know, it would be like voting for a party that opposes slavery or something.

I think at least part of the reason though is the collapse of the National Front. That sounds weird, I know, but consider that the National Front gained a lot of support from the collapse of the French Communist Party. Les Verts are now the default protest vote.