RE: [pf] What should The Greens be on about?

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David MacClement, "explaining to [my wife] how I see the Greens
having changed in the last 5 years."
>> 
>
At 14:09 24/7/2001 -0500, Diane Fitzsimmons wrote:
>So is the change that the Greens in the Parliament (is that the right
word?) seem more intent on playing the political game than by standing
apart and going a different direction?
>

· More basic than that - you're referring to the example - no, the NZ
Greens got their first Parliamentary representation, as Alliance/Greens, in
1996, and "went it alone" as Greens in mid-1999.

· So the great expansion in Greens membership, the media exposure, and yes
the re-directed government-money-flow, have been consequent to The (now 7
in 120 total MPs) Greens being an effective political voice.

· My post was saying that I believe there's been far too much focus on
national political action by The Greens, so that the *raison d'être* for
The Greens has become submerged in relatively short-term politics.

David.
David MacClement [davd @ ihug.co.nz] (remove spaces)
http://davd.tripod.com/GrRR-010720_titles.html#top
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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