Talk about a knee jerk reaction.
I’m not a supporter of the Greens, although they would certainly have my vote next Thursday if I thought it was the likeliest way to keep the hate mongers out of power.
Having said that, SOME of your criticisms are just unfounded.
1. Migrants are no more synonymous with criminals, terrorists and s*x pests than are our own ‘home reared’ wrongdoers.
2. There are already smack heads etc behind the wheel and in pubs, clubs and shopping centres. Polanski just seems to be advocating a public health driven policy on drug use rather than the existing one which, by your own definition of the current situation, has obviously failed. He may be right, he may be wrong but at least he’s offered an alternative to the current failed system.
3. There is a shortage of council housing in this country and a surfeit of privately owned rental property. I wouldn’t seek to discredit all private landlords but, from what we see on TV, there sure as hell are some bad and unscrupulous ones. IF this is a way of providing more responsible and less profit driven property ownership then is that a bad thing?
4. Another one that needs thinking through, but I don’t think anyone is ‘crucifying a whole gender’.
5. Pass. Inclined to agree but don’t know enough about their policy.
6. What is wrong with supporting Palestine Action? A question which seems to have been asked in rather higher places than this forum in the last week.
7. Another grown up conversation needed. I don’t know how we can possibly have the services we demand without paying for them via higher taxes. Apparently you and NF do. Feel free to share.
8. Have you seen the weather recently? Again I don’t know if this is just a horribly cold and wet winter that seems to have gone on for ever, but I do know that there seem to be more weather related catastrophes these days than ever before. Seems to me that any ‘madness’ lies with the climate change deniers.
In the words of Bob Dylan, ‘Don’t criticise what you can’t understand.’




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