hmm are you talking about Bristol City council because the Greens have no sway there?
They have 70 councilors and only 2 are Green.
The political representation on Bristol City Council is:
Liberal Democrats 32
Labour 22
Conservatives 14
Green 2
Results 41 to 44 of 44
Lucas has the luxury of not actually mattering in the long run what she votes for or against. Her single vote in parliament won't ever be a deciding factor and so she can just do whatever she wants and appear to be sticking to her guns. She's an anomoly in the Green Party at the moment.
I do understand what you mean, not to worry. Of course there are going to be some pragmatic situations where perhaps you have to compromise in order to have some effective organisation of local services. This isn't the case. In my local council they are sitting on ~£56million in cash reserves. More than enough to fund and revive local services but the Labour council are voting to implement the Tory policies of cuts and privatisation instead. In Bristol its a similar case where there's a potential to utilise the reserves to supplement local services instead of cutting them but Green councillers are voting to go ahead with privatisation. The case is similar in other councils with Green members, so I'm told, but Bristol is the only one I can confirm.
This is because the Green Party are just another capitalist party and their councillers don't actually give a shit about the economy. There's compromising and then there's betraying your principles and those who voted you in.
Modern democracy is nothing but the freedom to preach whatever is to the advantage of the bourgeoisie - Lenin
hmm are you talking about Bristol City council because the Greens have no sway there?
They have 70 councilors and only 2 are Green.
The political representation on Bristol City Council is:
Liberal Democrats 32
Labour 22
Conservatives 14
Green 2
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If they've got no sway then they could be taking the protest vote as Lucas is doing in parliament but instead they vote for these cuts to services. It's bizarre, really.
Modern democracy is nothing but the freedom to preach whatever is to the advantage of the bourgeoisie - Lenin
