tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12513755.post3801301324394330092..comments2024-03-28T14:47:03.977+00:00Comments on BiffVernon Blogspot: Why I'm Voting Corbynbiffvernonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04857477270618123815noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12513755.post-44812693993071422912015-07-30T21:08:57.471+01:002015-07-30T21:08:57.471+01:00Thanks Peaceful Warrior for your considered respon...Thanks Peaceful Warrior for your considered response. There's very little in it that I take issue with. We're on the same side.<br />The trouble is that the urgency of the climate crisis calls for panic mode. With the best will in the world we are not going to see 300+ Green Party MPs elected in 2020 and if Labour are elected to government with the difference that Corbyn might be able to make within a deeply flawed party, then we will be in a slightly better position than if the Tories win yet another term for their destruction of all we hold dear.<br />The Green Party's best hope for the short term is to be strong enough to hold a strong light on Labour, supporting where it does the right thing and exposing where it goes wrong.biffvernonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04857477270618123815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12513755.post-66978972259190556502015-07-29T19:30:48.061+01:002015-07-29T19:30:48.061+01:00Hi Biff.
Now you may know that I ascribe a huge a...Hi Biff.<br /><br />Now you may know that I ascribe a huge affection for your analytical mind and your reasonings in general. You are an authority on many subjects owing in no small way to the fact that you research to death a subject.<br />And this latest discussion is not letting me down for the reasons one would imagine. However I personally fail to see/feel or even comprehend in what way the voting for a leader of another party is anything but a betrayal of wanting the Green Party to press forward with its revolutionary and Climate accepting policies. I for one would never argue that one viewpoint is inherantly better than another based upon name of party. But is it not boardering on silliness to promote the standing of another party leader?<br />This I may point out is different to agreeing wholestock with the policies and agendas of that party. I feel sure Biff that you are keen as I, to see peace love and harmony brought back into the arena for debate and let the fear mongering and hared go where it belongs, to the grave.<br />I know that you believe that and so am sad that this apparent promoting of Jeremy Corbyn appears to suggest we the Green Party have got no chance to bring the minds and hearts of people to understand and accept this new future. I may be wrong but I do also believe that you want the Green Party poicies to be right up there in the war on greed and capitalist abandon of sense and reason. Our slogan, "for the common good', is something that we would all have thought the Labour party would be intimatey keen to promote in its suggested agenda to work for the ordinary people. BUT the evidence is that they have not done this, given many terms of office in government throughout the last century. They have also adopted the narrative that money is more important than people and services, the climate and other sentient beings.<br />Why do we ascribe such power to them now as they failed everyone in the last election under Ed Milliband to convince anyone that they really cared about the climate, the people or anything remotely affecting the stopping of corporate greed and destructivness?<br /><br />I know it's only a logical argument that you are proposing here, but I feel it is counter productive and fails to sponsor the real answer to this problem. We are the solution, whether we have time served our agendas or not, and Labour is clearly not concerned about any of this, it is part of the problem. Maybe Jeremy is as you say, but will he ever get the backing of his party under the obvious oppositions and wranglings of this old political narrative?<br /><br />Please accpet my deepest respect for what I may have misunderstood in your arguments that you clear up here.<br /><br />Love and peace friend.Peaceful Warriorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609969596188204544noreply@blogger.com