Does anybody here take the Greens seriously?

[Pblakeney]

That would be midwifery surely.

It is not a profession if you don't get paid. 😉

 

[Rusty Nails]

Lots of things that humans do to others are hard to stop. I think we should work towards stopping them though and not regard them as inevitable.

Countries where religion holds sway don't really try to stop prostitution. They only stop it for the populace in order to maintain religious face, not for the powerful or elite. See Afghanistan's dancing boys and Saudi Arabia's 'potty parties', plus the Catholic Church historically.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.econ...a-potty-parties/amp_articleshow/122143651.cms

If wishes were horses we'd all have a ride.

Religion is a red herring in this argument about legalising prostitution. It is about human nature and all its weaknesses. Control and minimising of problems is often the best we can aim for.

 

[Ian H]

If wishes were horses we'd all have a ride.

Religion is a red herring in this argument about legalising prostitution. It is about human nature and all its weaknesses. Control and minimising of problems is often the best we can aim for.

Ride a red herring to make yourself cross.

 

[Cirrus]

Ride a red herring to make yourself cross.

As a fetish, that one sounds a bit fishy…

 

[briantrumpet]

Again, the implication of the thread title is hard to disagree with, when they come up with this sort of thing.

 

[UglyWithaSidePart]

Again, the implication of the thread title is hard to disagree with, when they come up with this sort of thing.

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I guess even the Greens are servants to votes.

 

[briantrumpet]

I guess even the Greens are servants to votes.

As Labour has been showing, just chasing votes without thinking through the consequences or the internal logic (e.g. the xenophobic stuff) is neither a vote-winner nor sustainable.

 

[UglyWithaSidePart]

As Labour has been showing, just chasing votes without thinking through the consequences or the internal logic (e.g. the xenophobic stuff) is neither a vote-winner nor sustainable.

Agree, assuming the majority of the population are thinking as deeply as they should.

 

[briantrumpet]

Agree, assuming the majority of the population are thinking as deeply as they should.

Even without a lot of finkin', Polanski's suggestion here would fall apart here with the slightest bit of prodding. At least come up with something coherent.

 

[UglyWithaSidePart]

Even without a lot of finkin', Polanski's suggestion here would fall apart here with the slightest bit of prodding. At least come up with something coherent.

Yeah, it's disappointing (I'm a member of the Green party for now, rethinking it actually).

 

[briantrumpet]

Yeah, it's disappointing (I'm a member of the Green party for now, rethinking it actually).

It suggests that either he's not thinking these things through, or that he hasn't really got the kind of principles from which he can argue coherent policies in the first place, so resorts to the populist 'easy answer'.

I'm much more likely to admire politicians, even if I disagree with them, if you can tell that they have a core set of beliefs which inform everything and form a coherent whole. I think Caroline Lucas was probably more of that mould.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Again, the implication of the thread title is hard to disagree with, when they come up with this sort of thing.

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Looks to be like one's along term goal and the other a short term strategy to ease hardship. Next you'll be saying the Greens are just dreamers with no understanding of immediate realities.

 

[icowden]

Yeah, it's disappointing (I'm a member of the Green party for now, rethinking it actually).

Fancy suggesting that politicians should help people by mitigating energy bill spikes in the short term whilst switching to renewables to prevent those spikes in the long term. What utter cads and hypocrits.

 

[CXRAndy]

Green party

Repository for impressionable idiots

 

[UglyWithaSidePart]

Fancy suggesting that politicians should help people by mitigating energy bill spikes in the short term whilst switching to renewables to prevent those spikes in the long term. What utter cads and hypocrits.

You will possibly be not surprised that this isn't the only thing giving me pause over my party choices.