The Greens have to speed up their processes. They have to make sure that they can come up to date. They have to create policies which are acceptable now to people, particularly in the field of economics.
They have still not properly updated their economic policy, which says that the government should create all money. That is absurd. We now need the Greens to have a solid, modern monetary theory-based economic policy that can answer the questions that our economy has and which can liberate money to achieve what they want: full employment, prosperity, equality, a real prospect of tackling climate change, all those things matter. But the Greens, without a sound economic policy based, as I say, on the principles of modern monetary theory, which explains the proper role of money and taxation and how the government should manage both, is not going to be viable.
Spud just happens to have such a policy in his back pocket…..
“We are the people we have been waiting for.” — Barack Hussein Obama
“Policies that are acceptable now to people …” – not ones that obey the rules of arithmetic.
Now the Greens have become a successful hard left organisation they’re going to attract even more hard lefties and we’ll see the usual ideological splits we see in all hard left parties.
How about: the real Greens, the peoples’ Greens, Greens for Palestine as starters?
There are still a lot of Green party members who joined to ‘save the planet’. We heard nothing about that during the by-election, but an awful lot about Israel and billionaires.
The Greens are going to suffer from the same issues that have bedevilled the Limp-Dumbs since forever – they can win by-elections by producing a pitch for the specific constituency, but a general election demands some sort of national policy, and it’s not obvious that either party is capable of producing one that could prove a winner.
Her victory speech, which Madeline Grant at the Speccie described as Tweeslop, didn’t include anything on the environment as far as I could stomach to listen.
SPLITTERS!
The Greens are on board with jizya taxes the way they’ve captured the Gaza vote. Ones which only other people pay.
They may be mental but I don’t think they’re that mental.
How big a move is it from Quaker to fakir?
Not that he would be happy to live the ascetic life, but I would not be at all surprised if we saw a post along the lines of ‘Candidly, I have decided to convert… …Twelfthly, I have always been attracted to the words of the Prophet PBUH in regards to… etc etc’
He’d fit right in, too. Barred from all the pubs and an accomplished liar.
Reality-based economic policies? Nah! We insist on theory-based economic policies, and fuck reality.
You’ve had theory based economic policies for the past 3 decades. Time for some experience based economic policies?
Isn’t this the man that told us only government could create money – because only by requiring a specific currency to pay taxes could that currency be given value?
As some have known from the start, Green = Marxist Socialism rebranded, relaunched, its new refuge for evil psychopaths after the collapse of the USSR.
He’s missed the point of the political shift in the last few years – economics has become pretty much irrelevant in voting decisions. It’s identity politics that matter now, on the left and right.
And if the left don’t like that, it’s their fault; they started it.