“They’re just environmental idiots who will have disappeared again soon,” said Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmid, badly miscalculating the power of Green in Germany.
Metiria Turei, our own Green leader, explores the excellent news that the Green Party in Germany is to lead (that's LEAD for those of you who are short-sighted and/or from the Right :-) the coalition government, with the traditional left party, the Social Democrats, taking the minor party role, as described by Metiria on Frogblog.
I won't go on, you can nip over and check it out yourself but rest assured, I'm pretty happy and hugely encouraged by the development. Labour may be languishing a little at the moment, but that just gives us Greens the opportunity to also lead the coalition from the Left, after the coming election.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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I heard a few countries have gone that way and some country called Neu Zeeland was about to follow suit
The Greening of the world happening apace! We'll have to get going to ride with that wave!
To the spud-guns Bio!
At the rate that Labour is self-destructing, the Greens may indeed be the leading opposition party post November.
Leading the coalition Government you mean, Inv2 - you've no vision at all :-)
National in Opposition will be a sorry sight, without their Jonno and all. Remember, he's pulling the pin if he doesn't win - going home with his ball.
Shame eh!
I think the Greens have a way to go yet.
Some green Mps are certainly very capable, some not so much.
Oh, and Labour sux.
National does too Shunda, thus giving the NZ Greens a very good opportunity in this coming election.
I'll be backing them too, so I expect the Invercargill candidate Dave Kennedy will do very well, probably toppling National's Eric Roy :-)
Alright!
Definitely toppling (why hide Dave's light under the Bushel of Modesty!)
'The Greening of the world happening apace! We'll have to get going to ride with that wave!'
Unfortunately your wave fizzled to a pathetic ripple in NSW at the weekend,
although you could put this down to the insane utterings of the Australian Green leadership after the Queensland floods, influencing sane voters.
Contrast this with the more measured approach of the NZ Greens, who are working towards creating a world that would prevent any further advance of technology or human progress, without unduly alarming the voter.
You misunderstand the concept of technology Moist, just as you are off the mark with your understanding of the word 'progress'. The Greens favour intelligent technologies that add to the health of the system and progress in the true meaning of the word, not the regressive take you have adopted - your 'progressing down' is dismissed by the NZ Greens as 'last century' and has no place in the present. Think 'life enhancing technologies' Moist and you'll be on-track to catch up with Green thinking. Think 'progress our grandchildren will thank us for Moist, and you'lll be wanting to join the avant garde Green wave.
the greens support clean technology. if anything was crazy in Queensland, its the scale of influence the coal industry has.
Right now they are going onto farmers lands, and farmers are having to fight back. http://lockthegate.org.au/news/
"DESPERATE Western Downs residents are preparing for round two in an ongoing fight to keep a gas giant from "invading" their homes"....
Its sick and disgusting what the coal companies are doing to rural communities.
The sooner the greens here get the same % of the german greens the better!
Agreed Anonymous!
Mataura will be the centre for a similar lignite-fight, I suppose you know. Coming to a rural town near you (or rather me) soon!
So, should we expect to see your name on the Green Party klist Rob?
Been there, done that Inv but my protégé Dave Kennedy, a younger, more vibrant Green will be taking on the Invercargill challenge and I suspect, taking his place in the House following a great campaign to oust the sitting Nat, Eric Roy.
Should be a lot of fun.
Somehow I am reluctant to put my faith, and vote, towards people who think windmills and sunbeams are more powerful than hydro-electric dams and whose only experience with engineering is assembling a wind chime.
Present company excepted of course Robert, as I see you are mastering the art of sharpening sticks and making maypoles, both activities that would fit perfectly with a brave new Green world.
Robert, I hear the Greens have an excellent campaign manager this year. I've been hoping that their silence of late is due to being busy planning for the election.
Your right Moist Moustachio, there's precious little power in wind and sun, that's a well known fact.
Best we go the nuclear way - there's more energy in those tiny atoms than a piddling little hydro dam!
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And we can choose to live downstream of a perfectly safe hydro dam on a faultline, or near rows of pretty wind turbines spread across an ugly mountain range.
wildcrafty - calm before the storm.
Shane - Yeah!
*Picks plutonium fragments from between teeth.
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