I am not quite sure why anyone in their right mind should want to be a "Green." It is damned hard work and you get no words of praise for doing it. The trouble is that deep inside you know that you are actually doing the right thing. You know that even though you wish that you were just about anything else, you are not and so you have to live with it, and live green with it to. So her I am in the back end of my 50s being Green in what is possibly the most politically un-green place in the country, North Tyneside. I don't mean that people up here are not "fluffy bunny" type green. They do quite a reasonable job of keeping the area clean and recycling stuff. All of which is excellent. But if we are talking hard-core Green. The Green that arises out of the philosophy of Political Ecology and deals with all the hard stuff in society like law & order, education, health or defence then it is blank wall time. So how do we Greens solve this? Although pressure groups can be effective I believe that the only way is through the ballot box and hence via the Green Party.
At the last local election in North Tyneside (May 2008) I stood as a candidate in the Riverside Ward and picked up 7.5% of the vote cast. Not bad for a start I feel. Now I am doing a by-election in Monkseaton North which will be interesting. Riverside was hard Labour and of course their candidate go in with a zonking majority. Monkseaton North is Conservative through and through so it will be interesting how things go there.
I am also going to go for the Elected Mayor of North Tyneside next year which should be interesting. Anyway, hopefully I will be using this blog to document my progress and that of the North Tyneside Green Party. All good fun and your comments, especially if you live in North Tyneside, are always welcome. The nice ones I will take to heart while any nasty ones I will have a good laugh at.
So, till my next one -
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