tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post3744230184279455485..comments2023-11-02T12:51:49.376+00:00Comments on Ruscombe Green: Why Greens can't vote Lib Dem?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-87026560239082275842010-05-04T15:15:26.534+01:002010-05-04T15:15:26.534+01:00See The Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/electio...See The Telegraph<br />www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7675120/General-Election-2010-Nick-Clegg-ready-for-talks-with-future-Tory-government.html<br /><br />Nick Clegg said electoral reform<br />promises were not a “precondition” of dealing with a potential Conservative government.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-56548744978094193842010-04-28T18:28:57.070+01:002010-04-28T18:28:57.070+01:00PS In short what Labour and the Lib Dems have been...PS In short what Labour and the Lib Dems have been talking about is not an improvement to democracy for the sake of the people. It’s a self-centred calculation of what change to the voting system would help them lose fewer seats than they would expect to under first-past-the-post.<br /><br />In contrast what the Green Party wants is a fairer, more inclusive voting system. It needs to be truly Andynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-17617390685369062492010-04-28T18:27:30.588+01:002010-04-28T18:27:30.588+01:00Lib Dems are not so great on PR......What Jenkins ...Lib Dems are not so great on PR......What Jenkins proposed was County-based electoral units with 7 or 8 fptp seats (London would be broken down into like-sized clusters) and 1, and in a few cases 2, top-up seats each. This basically means a couple of Green seats......In short it's a system that tosses a bone to the second choice party of the largest number of voters, not one that favours new,Andynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-89389897728086634562010-04-28T13:15:14.024+01:002010-04-28T13:15:14.024+01:00I wouldn't normally say this - I'm big on ...I wouldn't normally say this - I'm big on voting with your conscience - but the Greens, the BNP, UKIP and every other minor party are idiots for insisting on running this election and not stepping down and endorsing the Lib Dems.<br /><br />Of course they don't agree with Lib Dem policies, or they wouldn't have formed parties of their own in the first place. That's not the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-29628596266271502712010-04-27T22:39:37.062+01:002010-04-27T22:39:37.062+01:00Disappointing. The Lib Dems have nothing new to of...Disappointing. The Lib Dems have nothing new to offer the electorate. They support the war in Afghanistan and will not scrap all nuclear weapons. According to the PN poll the Green Party is considered the most LGBT friendly - I am also not convinced the lib dems will create PR, other than AMS which is not actually proportionally.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-28470746857941980382010-04-27T22:08:47.842+01:002010-04-27T22:08:47.842+01:00"Former Green Party candidate and gay rights ..."Former Green Party candidate and gay rights activist Peter Tatchell has called for Green supporters to vote for the Liberal Democrats in certain seats." Pink NewsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-68507634853168865702010-04-25T23:06:33.378+01:002010-04-25T23:06:33.378+01:00Some fair points above from anonymous - but Lib De...Some fair points above from anonymous - but Lib Dems are a self-confessed party of “savage cuts,” to quote Nick Clegg.<br /><br />And even the Stroud Green party leaflet seems to suggest that Lib Dems are opposed to nuclear weapons – they’re opposed to Trident but want to replace it with something possibly cheaper but definitely still nuclear. <br /><br />Lib Dems maybe greener than the other twoAndynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-66744627227444884032010-04-25T22:50:11.936+01:002010-04-25T22:50:11.936+01:00"Lib Dems and Greens may have worked together..."Lib Dems and Greens may have worked together but it doesn't mean they are offering the same thing." Never said they are; however they should work together on common ground. Nice to see Labour's Luvvies are now Lucas's Luvies<br /><br />Armchair Green: The Reform Party otherwise known as the Independent LIBERAL Forum http://www.gibnet.gi/~emery/. A faction of the Gib Libs.<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-31965248526425455232010-04-25T18:20:39.357+01:002010-04-25T18:20:39.357+01:00Lyana Armstrong-Emery of the small Reform Party ha...Lyana Armstrong-Emery of the small Reform Party had a place on a joint list with the Green Party in 2004 - we did not have a relationship with the Gibraltar Liberal party. The Reform party was a left-leaning Green party but closed down in 2005.Armchair Greennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-64011842188186252822010-04-25T18:04:33.655+01:002010-04-25T18:04:33.655+01:00Liberal Democrats - lots of good on offer but I...Liberal Democrats - lots of good on offer but I'm not convinced they will do what it says on their tin.<br /><br />They wanted a moratorium on roadbuilding yet supported Newbury bypass, the Batheaston bypass and the M74 extension in Scotland.<br /><br />They have argued for one thing on a local level and another on a national level. For example they currently support incinerator projects in Andynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-44241084869045501032010-04-25T15:58:58.198+01:002010-04-25T15:58:58.198+01:00Lib Dems and Greens may have worked together but i...Lib Dems and Greens may have worked together but it doesn't mean they are offering the same thing. I have just been reading The Independent today about Caroline Lucas:<br /><br />"Yet her election would do far more than that. It would be a breach in the wall of Westminster, through which genuinely alternative policies might flow. Nick Clegg has had formidable success in painting himself Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28388669.post-69338833821689167602010-04-25T08:17:18.298+01:002010-04-25T08:17:18.298+01:00Unfortunately the Daily Mail style attacks of Jone...Unfortunately the Daily Mail style attacks of Jones and other leaders makes the Green Party look like one of the establishment parties. Remember the Irish Greens are standing three candidates for Westminster, a party with a less than impressive record in government in the Republic.<br /><br />In Canada Greens and Liberals have stood down for each other, and in this region the Green Party had a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com