Yesterday the Green Party Leader Natalie Bennet did an interview with political radio broadcaster: LBC
It went pretty badly on her part to say the least, but the reaction to it has been pretty disgusting. The radio station and it's presenters took a lot of pleasure in humiliating her for a further 2 hours after the interview took place - laughing and joking at her expense and questioning her credibility as a leader. Yes, she messed up, but the Green party can't afford to hire advisers and media trainers on the same scale as the major parties and I don't need my party leader to be charismatic, just to have the right ideals and policies.
The Green Party is one of the few parties that want real change and have ordinary people representing them. Why are the media trying to run them in to the ground in such a childish way?
Is anyone here voting Green?
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It would be nice to have a General Discussion forum on these boards. Not all, but the majority of off topic posts tend to get very high engagement levels which implies there is a demand for it. I can only see a GD forum being good for the overall site with regards to engagement and Search Engine Optimization, especially with the 2015 general elections coming up.
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No I'm not, all of those things listed are tax avoidance. They're all legal. What I'm saying is there are loads of things which are technically legal but are taken advantage of by rich people.
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What like getting your chauffer to run your friend to the airport for £20.
There is no such thing as "morally" wrong in the eyes of the law, only in your eyes, and you would be a pretty brave man to say that you would just pay up every last penny rather than take advantage of perfectly legal ways to safeguard your money.
But I do understand what you are trying to say about Jimmy Carr and his tax avoidance schemes, but they are legal, end of.
The two things on your list that really riled me up was the Isa and deeds of variation, both perfectly respectable ways of keeping the money you are entitled to. Inheritance tax is a bad tax and hits only the low to middle income earners the hardest, or the very top of our system (bad class system) are those who are asset rich, cash poor, such as the aristocracy with large estates.
But If I were in power those estates would be taken away anyway and that is where I would build the 500000 new homes the greens are proposing. They were only given the land and estates in medieval times for some small favour to the monarch. The land should now be taken back and redistributed to the rest of the population.
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High time this aged institution passed on then.
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By any objective criteria (and I’m talking about OBJECTIVE criteria), the post-war Attlee government was almost certainly the most successful British government of the 20th century.
Passed about 3 times more legislation than the Thatcher government, much of which achieved what it set out to achieve, and didn’t later get reversed (two of the main criteria for an OBJECTIVE assessment).
And in spite of the massive cost of creating the NHS and a swathe of other welfare reforms, it reduced the national debt by about 40% (ie. the opposite trick to the one the current government is pulling (increasing the national debt by about 40%, while cutting public spending to the point where people who are fully employed still need food-banks).
By contrast, the Thatcher government’s policy of dependency on one industry (the financial industry), a policy which forms pretty much the definition of a banana-republic, is now being reversed by a Conservative government. It is an avowed aim of this government to rebalance the economy in favour of industry, in order to reduce the dependency on the City, but it’s a long haul back from its total destruction.
When we’ve got over the hero-worship of Thatcher as the strict headmistress we most enjoyed being spanked by, posterity will probably conclude that that policy was a mega-failure: it cost billions, shrank the economy, caused riots, and swallowed up most of the North Sea oil revenue....and now it’s being reversed by her own party.
Whereas the NHS is till here: far from perfect, but nobody dares touch it, and according to this Conservative government’s own Health minister, under-praised for what it achieves.
Doesn’t mean I’ll vote for them in he next election (I haven’t decided yet), but when policies are appraised objectively, you get a different picture from the soap-opera the Press enjoys engaging in.