Greens say no

bk

H&#250 wrote: »

You can't be sure of that, you weren't in the negotiating room. How do you know FF weren't being immature? Perhaps they conceded on nothing and expected Green support for it?

True, but from all of the rumors, the sticking points weren't the environmental ones, but ones based on their leftist leanings.

Opposition to hospital co-location, nothing to do with the environment, everything to do with their leftist leanings.

Opposition to corporate donations, nothing to do with the environment, everything to do with their leftist leanings.

etc, etc.

For person who is a member of the green party, you seem to know little about their political position and policies.

UrbanFox

CerebralCortex wrote:

We didn't all get to vote the last time.

Spot on correct.

Whose fault was that however ???

Voipjunkie

bk wrote:

True, but from all of the rumors, the sticking points weren't the environmental ones, but ones based on their leftist leanings.

Opposition to hospital co-location, nothing to do with the environment, everything to do with their leftist leanings..

Absolute tripe the party can not just be about the environment and forget everything else it is a party about quality of life and they believe that co location will detrimentally affect peoples quality of life

bk wrote:

Opposition to corporate donations, nothing to do with the environment, everything to do with their leftist leanings.

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Again complete balderdash if political parties are in hock to large corporations and these same corporations are polluting the environment then there may be a little conflict of interest to say the least. Do you think we are ever going to get proper building regulations with regard to insulation etc while FF are taking big donations from the builders in the tent at the Galway races or maybe it is just coincidence that we are still using hollow blocks in house construction.





The problem you have is that you want to box the Green Party in and tell them they can only have views on greenhouse gases and carbon emmissions and that everything else should be left to those that know better

Any political party that strives for office in this state has to have views and policies across the spectrum not just a group of single issue parties besides which the green party stood on all these issues in the election they would be letting down the people who voted for them if they were to prop up a FF government on the basis of carbon emmissions and that is all.

Jackie laughlin

Voipjunkie,
You are touching on a basic question often asked of Greens: "Are you a socialist green or a liberal green?"

My particular gripe with the Irish Green Party is that they are clearly not serious about man-made global warming; they have nothing to say on air travel.

Dirk Gently

bk wrote:

Opposition to corporate donations, nothing to do with the environment, everything to do with their leftist leanings.

It's true that the lefties shout loudest about this, mostly because they don't get corporate donations anyway, but would the issue not be more about transparency and accountability rather than left / right. Surely eliminating a conflict of interests is not a left / right thing……………or is it?

Voipjunkie

Jackie laughlin wrote:

Voipjunkie,
You are touching on a basic question often asked of Greens: "Are you a socialist green or a liberal green?"

My particular gripe with the Irish Green Party is that they are clearly not serious about man-made global warming; they have nothing to say on air travel.

Sounds more like the are you a Protestant Jew or a Catholic Jew the Greens have set out their own policies and people have elected and voted for them based on those policies and they include policies on Healthcare and education and justice etc. It seems that some people have not looked at the Green policies on these issues and are content to view them as one dimensional only concerned with C02 or the ozone layer.

CerebralCortex

UrbanFox wrote:

Spot on correct.

Whose fault was that however ???

Not mine. I voted.