Hate The Greens? No! Tho’ they are contradictory, opportunistic, manipulative and even fraudulent. But Do They Ever Vote “Yes”? Well…
Circa Mid 1980's - How Did The Greens Get Their Logo? - From The Australian Democrats Along With Most Of Their Non Environment Policy
My time as adviser to Lyn Allison was spent in a state of bewilderment at the parliamentary tactics of The Greens.
They never voted in favor of anything. They never sought amendments. They never negotiated in the corridors.
Never. Never. Never. Never ever.
Bob Brown drove the Senate President crazy insisting that their unvarying “No” vote be separately recorded in Hansard (it is anyway).
Their role in the Senate was and is to be a deadweight in the saddlebags of democracy. What a waste of votes, of salaries, effort and oxygen.
Further, they gave themselves airs as a party of peace. Ha!
Read this incisive piece by Dr James Page of Queensland University of Technology and weep. Click Here
A vote for The Greens is a waste and does nothing to advance the causes we hold so dear, of which non-aggression and the peaceful resolution of conflict are paramount.
We have learned to expect the conservatives and labor to behave deceitfully and to reduce complex political arguments to manipulative slogans. The Greens are doing something worse.
They argue they are a party of purity.
They are just simply wrong.
Thanks David,
But merely pointing out policy differences between the German and Australian Greens Party on war (Dr James Page), does nothing to tackle the current hegemony of the Greens in the Australian political context.
Nothing.
A full blown strategy is needed to do this.
Any ideas?
Hegemony? They wish! The political strategy of the Democrats is to peel votes off ALL our rivals. The point of the post is to make voters aware that a vote for The Greens is an opportunity wasted. That much I think is clear.