The reek of Greens

[BlueHammer85]

.. they say they don't shower to save the planet , my suspicion is there lazy students that cant be arsed to clean themselves.

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[Ronnie the Rep]

Mmmmmm, boiled cabbage

 

[urmston]

The only things Greens reek of is hypocrisy.

They say everyone else should live in tiny, energy efficient flats on inner city sites, holiday at home, do without a car and take the bus etc etc.

But for them its business as usual with their nice houses in the leafy suburbs, cars for mum, dad and the children too, plenty of foreign holidays and a gap year for each kid too.

They might recycle the odd plastic bag but that's about it.

 

[DelToro]

The only things Greens reek of is hypocrisy.

They say everyone else should live in tiny, energy efficient flats on inner city sites, holiday at home, do without a car and take the bus etc etc.

But for them its business as usual with their nice houses in the leafy suburbs, cars for mum, dad and the children too, plenty of foreign holidays and a gap year for each kid too.

They might recycle the odd plastic bag but that's about it.

Recycling stereotypes is still going strong.

 

[johnny on the spot]

I must admit that I hate having a shower in the morning, I can now make a basket from scratch out of willow, I do own a pair of sandals, am veggie and have slept several times in a yurt. I quite like being a crusty. They tend to be half decent, loving people, if sometimes lacking a sense of self deprecation and who do take life a bit seriously at times. Having been brought up in a working class Stalybridge family I sometimes don't really fit with the smartarse posh green kids (some of whom really do boil my nettle tea), but by and large I get by by being a cheeky Manc **** who likes a drink and a trip.

 

[urmston]

The only things Greens reek of is hypocrisy.

They say everyone else should live in tiny, energy efficient flats on inner city sites, holiday at home, do without a car and take the bus etc etc.

But for them its business as usual with their nice houses in the leafy suburbs, cars for mum, dad and the children too, plenty of foreign holidays and a gap year for each kid too.

They might recycle the odd plastic bag but that's about it.

Recycling stereotypes is still going strong.

Stereotypes are useful.

Greens are almost all affluent, middle class types, usually graduates.

The main exception to this is students who are trainee middle class affluent people.

I've known a few Greens in my time and I can honestly say I that none of them made any serious sacrifices at all, and all lived lives of above average consumption and energy use simply because they had the incomes to allow it.

 

[johnny on the spot]

The only things Greens reek of is hypocrisy.

They say everyone else should live in tiny, energy efficient flats on inner city sites, holiday at home, do without a car and take the bus etc etc.

But for them its business as usual with their nice houses in the leafy suburbs, cars for mum, dad and the children too, plenty of foreign holidays and a gap year for each kid too.

They might recycle the odd plastic bag but that's about it.

Recycling stereotypes is still going strong.

Stereotypes are useful.

Greens are almost all affluent, middle class types, usually graduates.

The main exception to this is students who are trainee middle class affluent people.

I've known a few Greens in my time and I can honestly say I that none of them made any serious sacrifices at all, and all lived lives of above average consumption and energy use simply because they had the incomes to allow it.

I must be the exception then. I live in a modest two up, two down, work at least 30 hours per month for free for local community projects and co-ops, co-teach free courses on green living for other people on low incomes. I don't drive (though we have two vans at work- again, a workers co-op), grow my own food in my small back and front garden, buy veg from a local veg box scheme and run school gardening clubs. I'm not the Jolly Green Giant, but I like living like this and I practice what I preach.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Voted Green every* local and national election from 1989-2011 and as you all know I am an all round sane, level headed individual.....

It did piss me off that each Green candidate for Moston tended to live in Chorlton and also when I wrote to the Manchester Green party, asking for their support for the campaign to save a green and covenanted land from the clutches of FCUM's stadium development, they replied by saying they would be prepared to broker a deal between both parties. I replied by saying ''we don't want the stadium built, they want the stadium built. There is no halfway point. They cant build half of the stadium as that is meeting halfway....''. The twats wouldn't support the campaign to save the green and covenanted land.....

*except one local election when the BNP were going for Moston and I gave up being one of the usual 45 Green voters in the ward to cast my vote for the Labour candidate to keep the BNP out, which it did.

 

[dom]

Voted Green every* local and national election from 1989-2011 and as you all know I am an all round sane, level headed individual.....

It did piss me off that each Green candidate for Moston tended to live in Chorlton and also when I wrote to the Manchester Green party, asking for their support for the campaign to save a green and covenanted land from the clutches of FCUM's stadium development, they replied by saying they would be prepared to broker a deal between both parties. I replied by saying ''we don't want the stadium built, they want the stadium built. There is no halfway point. They cant build half of the stadium as that is meeting halfway....''. The twats wouldn't support the campaign to save the green and covenanted land.....

*except one local election when the BNP were going for Moston and I gave up being one of the usual 45 Green voters in the ward to cast my vote for the Labour candidate to keep the BNP out, which it did.

As a Chorlton resident I have some sympathy.... it can feel like a bit of a bubble sometimes...

As a lifelong Labour supporter I also worry that that lot might be syphoning off crucial votes to stop the shitbags getting in again..

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Voted Green every* local and national election from 1989-2011 and as you all know I am an all round sane, level headed individual.....

It did piss me off that each Green candidate for Moston tended to live in Chorlton and also when I wrote to the Manchester Green party, asking for their support for the campaign to save a green and covenanted land from the clutches of FCUM's stadium development, they replied by saying they would be prepared to broker a deal between both parties. I replied by saying ''we don't want the stadium built, they want the stadium built. There is no halfway point. They cant build half of the stadium as that is meeting halfway....''. The twats wouldn't support the campaign to save the green and covenanted land.....

*except one local election when the BNP were going for Moston and I gave up being one of the usual 45 Green voters in the ward to cast my vote for the Labour candidate to keep the BNP out, which it did.

As a Chorlton resident I have some sympathy.... it can feel like a bit of a bubble sometimes...

As a lifelong Labour supporter I also worry that that lot might be syphoning off crucial votes to stop the shitbags getting in again..

Even as a vegetarian I hated going into Unicorn to buy food. The place reeked of stereotypes. Viz would have had a field day!