He offers no actual reasons other than, "...one thing I’m certain of is that if Carla Denyer, Adrian Ramsey, Tamsin Omond and Amelia Womack were all elected to Westminster, this would already be a better country to live in."
Which is fair enough. But bonkers.
He continues...
"And if there were 20 or more Green MPs I would sleep better at night and worry less about the future of this country."
That's because he doesn't have to work in any normal sense of the word 'work'.
Omond is a strange choice of leader to get behind, not least because she is so strange, but because she has a long history of failed projects behind her...
She also once tried to form her own political party, despite the Green Party already existing.
She thought she could better connect with the public of Hampstead and Kilburn than the extant Westminster parties at the 2010 election.
Tamsin, standing for the Tamsin Party, won a whopping 123 votes -- or 0.2% -- which was more than a third of the BNP's votes.
Without wishing to be unkind, I would be very worried if the likes of Omond gained any more influence, and I think that anyone who thinks that she is capable of making their lives better is hopelessly delusional.
You *have* to either be insane or lead an extremely comfortable and sheltered life to think that such batshit people are capable of doing anything at all, let alone holding power.
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On the face of it, a nice rant about XR. But if you caveat your criticism with the necessity of 'tackling our carbon footprint', that you're 'no climate change denier' and that single-use plastic is unnecessary, then you have done XR's bidding.
You can't make a distinction between XR's objectives and their methods.
In fact XR are perhaps unique in their being the most honest about their outlook -- far more honest than any academics, scientists, journalist or politicians. But it's the same outlook.
That philosophy is anti-human, through-and-through.
It's simply more obvious in XR, as XR are in general too thick in the head to disguise what others are mealy-mouthed about.
There is no difference between street-level environmentalism and establishment environmentalism.
Cowardly Jenny Jones does not care for debate about the origins and philosophy and MO of her political tendency.
Greens don't do debate. There is no culture of debate in environmentalism. It expects only obedience.
Bizarre Jennie Jones doesn't mind her coreligionists depriving you of your freedom of movement, and the means by which millions make a living, but she is bothered by robust, free, open, democratic debate.