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blai
May 13, 2009, 07:37 AM
1. Voting Green is positive and far-sighted.
Green politics express a positive vision of human nature and potential. Green politics sets urgently needed reforms within longer term strategies – not sticking-plaster solutions to last until the next election. The way we live now is destructive, wasteful and unjust. We must change.

2. Voting Green gets the message across.
Every extra vote for the Green Party convinces the other political parties, the Media, professional bodies and the Public that Green politics is growing, popular and mainstream: worth adopting, worth publicising, worth teaching, worth learning and thinking about and worth voting for.

3. Voting Green keeps the pressure on.
Every Green vote tells the other major parties that their offer of more of the same is just not good enough. They will only develop more coherent environmental policies as they continue to lose votes and support to the Greens.

4. A Green vote is proving to be most effective at a local level.
Green councillors are making a difference in all round the country/world.

5. Voting Green is a vote for greater democracy.
The Green Party' demands Proportional Representation at all elections – local, national and European – and actively promotes the devolution of power out of Westminster and back into the hands of the people. In many countries with fairer electoral systems, Green MP’s are already providing a fresh, new approach to Government – putting people before politics.

6. Green Councillors are not “career politicians”.
We are local people dedicated to working with others to build a better quality of life for our communities.

7. Voting Green is an honest vote.
Voting negatively for the lesser of two evils is neither honest nor wise. Less principled political parties – and Governments – claim these negative votes as a mandate for their policies. One thing is certain … If you don't vote for what you really want you're never going to get it!

8. Voting Green is realistic.
The Green Party is the only Party with the political will to make the changes necessary for the survival of our planet. The token "environmentalism" of the other major parties – cynical vote-catching for the most part – stands in direct contradiction to their faith in uncontrolled exploitative industrial growth as the solution to society's problems.

9. Green politics is much more than just Conservation.
The protection of the environment includes everything from dismantling nuclear weapons and the Arms trade to tackling Unemployment, and from shutting down nuclear power stations to improving our schools, hospitals and public transport.

10. The other parties promise you the moon. The Green Party guarantees the Earth.


Source
http://www.mngp.org.uk/2009.05.13


http://www.globalyounggreens.org/Spip/
http://www.fyeg.org/cms/

(not propaganda at all, lol)

segua
May 14, 2009, 12:17 AM
That list sounds more like a promotion of the Green party.

I've come to realize that the push for environmentally friendly solutions need political backing. This might be accomplished with the Green party but I'm sure that as a political group, it will share similar short-falls as does other political parties.

There will always be people for gain and if the Green party accomplishes that, then those particular people will join any party.

Lastly, people shouldn't vote Green but vote responsibly and smartly. Then again, people tend to vote with their money anyhow.

Shinichiro
May 14, 2009, 01:35 AM
You could have just made the most brilliant argument in the world, and it would still be irrelevant and invalid.

America's system of government doesn't allow for a third party. We've got a winner take all setup.

Therefore, any vote for a third party at the national level is prettttty much much tossing your vote down the flusher. Small town mayor, maybe you can get away with it, but anything that actually matters at the policy level...well...sucks to be you.

I love third/fourth/fifth/sixth/seventh/etc... parties, but they're pretty indisputably worthless because of an unfortunate flaw in our democracy/republic.

Onomatopoeia
May 14, 2009, 10:13 PM
You could have just made the most brilliant argument in the world, and it would still be irrelevant and invalid.

America's system of government doesn't allow for a third party. We've got a winner take all setup.

Therefore, any vote for a third party at the national level is prettttty much much tossing your vote down the flusher. Small town mayor, maybe you can get away with it, but anything that actually matters at the policy level...well...sucks to be you.

I love third/fourth/fifth/sixth/seventh/etc... parties, but they're pretty indisputably worthless because of an unfortunate flaw in our democracy/republic.

Perhaps this is a promotion for places like Britain and other European countries?

Blai isn't American after all.

Shinichiro
May 15, 2009, 01:19 AM
Ah, mine bad...false assumption, you're right. I THINK it's American green, probably, maybe, but could well be sommat else.

I know the American Green Party promotes the 10 key value thingies, aka 10 reasons to vote green, as an actual slogan. Out of curiosity, do the European (don't remember Green being big in Asia, but it's been a loooong time, so who knows) ones do so as well?

Sexy Randal 105
May 15, 2009, 09:47 AM
Yeah! Vote for Mr. Green! Butchers for Office! (I hope somebody gets the reference XD)

blai
May 19, 2009, 12:43 PM
We don't have a "10 reasons to vote green" we only have one reason to vote green and we like to say that it's the only choice left in a country like Sweden since neither the left neither the right parties can run a politic that can change the country to the better, but the green one can which has a mixed opinion that makes us stand in between the two blocks. We believe in entrepreneurs, small businesses coops but at the same time a strong municipality.. like
It sounds stupid but it's hard to explain the intern politic to people in other situations.

And we got the most awesome-leet-pro politics when it comes to the EU

OhDearMoshe
May 22, 2009, 08:44 PM
Heres a reason to vote Green if your from England. It stamps out the BNP from getting seats in parliament.

blai
May 23, 2009, 11:42 AM
lol, tbh - the best reason if ur from england

Asusp3v4x
December 26, 2009, 01:12 AM
Hmmm maybe next election I will vote green :XD

anyway I love the list and it is coherent... and yeah I agree with green policies and I think we should them as much as we can ^^