So he is a a Home Counties graduate College lecturer and that makes him \”working class\” to the Green Party. I wonder what class they think their gardeners are?
So he is a a Home Counties graduate College lecturer and that makes him \”working class\” to the Green Party. I wonder what class they think their gardeners are?
Peter Cranie himself says “I come from a working class background”. Whereas Natalie Bennett attended the Methodist Ladies College in Sydney. If I had a vote, I’d think this unimportant either way.
Gardeners probably count as peasants.
Why does he want to dismantle the party’s reputation as a “white, middle-class party”? The working class aren’t going to vote for the Greens in meaningful numbers. Fact is, it is a party with a very fixed demographic in terms of its potential support, a specific subset of white, middle class society, apparently to be found in large numbers in Brighton.
The Green Party has for decades been disappointed in its voters and members for failing to be representative of those it says it is fighting for. In this it is like many other, less successful, far-left radical parties.
Where it differs from those other parties is that a substantial fraction of its voters – those that account for its relative success – are under a misapprehension about what the party stands for.
You evidently have more impact on the Green party than you do on UKIP. Natalie has won.
There was a lady , hideously white and middle class, collecting for Friends of the Earth outside M&S in a posh part of town on Saturday. I made sure I revved the car’s 2L engine especially hard as I pulled away from the curb.
2L engine? In Australia we only put those in lawn mowers. I’ve got one of these in the garage and I’ve enjoyed it more than my previous V8s:
http://www.drive.com.au/editorial/articledetail.aspx?ArticleID=37226
Don’t use it much now because the return of proper rainy seasons means huge potholes and cracked rims at $2000 a pop so MrsBud says it must go.
(sincere apologies, Dr Cromarty, I do hope you upset the FoE lady)
I wonder if Pippa Bartolotti will get the job. She’s a shameless hypocrite (talks environment, drives a Jag) and she also likes Nazis (see enclosed pic from a trip to the Middle East). Jsut the ticket for the Greens:
http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/analysis/70782/beware-woman-who-bids-lead-greens