Still, now I am back on track with this Green Mayor thing. I have even written the first draft of my manifesto. I am afraid you will have to wait a while to read it in all its glory but it will be worth it.
North Tyneside Green Party is having its next meeting on Monday 2nd. March where we will talk about strategy and membership and all the things one does at these meeting. If you would like to get involved with us then contact us [vis this or my e-mail] and I will tell you where to go.
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I suppose I should make a comment about the economic mess that we find ourselves in at the moment. As a Green there is the temptation of sitting back and saying "we told you so." After all we have been saying that the economic system that is based on continuous growth will fail. The idea that economics based on continuous growth would bot go through cycles of boom and bust is patently ridiculous. Any system that grows in an uncontrolled way will eventually outstrip the supply of resources it needs to sustain it and so collapses. It happens in nature all the time. But of course economists are not scientist and do not base their theories on evidence only on the short term bottom line, which has been proved time and time again to be a bad thing to base anything upon.So what should we be doing? What has happened to the world, from a Green point of view, is an opportunity to dump what has gone before and replace it with something new, something radical. Unfortunately all our world leaders are running around like headless chickens trying to reinstate the failed system because most of them have a personal stake in the status quo. What is needed in the long run is to put in place a sustainable economic system based on community need rather than personal greed. It would be impossible to go directly to this so we need a transition state which the present mess allows us the opportunity to take.
It is this transition state that I hope to initiate when I am elected as the Green Mayor of North Tyneside.
