The only future is green. So let's face it now...

• How would we vote if we loved the children, our own, and the worlds?

• Policies on the same scale and the same planet as the problems

• ‘No change’ - not an option. This is a time for bold new green beginnings

• Lib Dems ‘dissing’ Greens is like someone ‘shopping’ their sister!

• The only future is green. So let’s face it now

• Will those who held true to the dream of a brighter cleaner greener world be rewarded on June 4th

I was 50 in May. My entire adult life I’ve voted Labour or Lib Dem, usually the former. Over the last decade I became a fervent LibDem supporter. But lately it feels like 32 badly wasted years. I feel betrayed. I have, at long last, realised that ‘the main parties’ are the parties of ‘no change’. Business as usual, politics as usual, and denial of climate crisis as usual. (“The government is not just in bed with big oil, the government is big oil” as states the ‘Age of Stupid’ movie.) At a time when we urgently need big change, in terms of radical shifts towards sustainability, ‘no change’ or ‘slow change’ are simply not an option. This is a time for bold new green beginnings.

My Tory MP refuses to represent me, and has banned me from his surgery. I wrote to Gordon Brown a year ago letting him know he’d lost a long-term labour supporter for good, following his blatant pro airline, pro road and pro coal decisions. And I don’t trust the Tory’s, however polished they sound, to work for a more equitable world. It’s just not in their nature.

The LibDems used to be ok, but have now resorted to campaigning negatively– even ‘dissing’ Greens. That’s like ‘shopping’ your sister! I’m also dismayed that they are talking down the Greens' Euro-prospects at the very time when the polls show them improving. Such grubby politics, at a time of national concern at the dirtiness of politics, is the height of foolishness. Are the Lib Dems showing their true colours by running from the truth of Greens new popularity?

The party with a leader I passionately agree with, on almost every single topic – is the Green Party. Caroline Lucas is a very sensible lady and in my opinion will be PM.

The Greens – for all their obvious failings and inexperience - are the only party with policies remotely on the same scale and on the same planet as the problems we face. They are the only sane vote if we loved the children, our own, and the world’s.

I hope to wake up on June 5th to a see those who have held true to the dream of a brighter, cleaner, greener world rewarded with a green landslide. Or at least a brave new world with 4 main parties. The bright future is green. The only future is green. It’s time to welcome the future.



Dave Hampton MA (Cantab) C Eng C Env FRSA - and still can't remember where his coffee cup is

Comments

[Dave Hampton]

Since I wrote this, my (Tory) MP has resigned.

The Green party vote was amazing, with a national rise in their vote of 50%.

The media mainly ignored this green uprising. But green issues don't disappear when you ignore them (on the contrary).

Neither do green voters...

In France and Germany, of the three main parties - one of them is green.

This is our future too - if we want one.