{"id":387494,"date":"2018-12-02T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/come-the-green-revolution-please\/"},"modified":"2018-12-02T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T18:21:09","slug":"come-the-green-revolution-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/come-the-green-revolution-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Come the (Green) Revolution, Please!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Green Party of England and Wales is extraordinary. Whilst I\u2019ve no idea whether it\u2019s very different to other Green Parties around the world, it is totally different to any other large political organisation in Britain. Full disclosure: I\u2019m a member of the Greens, so obviously I have some partisan interest. Nevertheless, I think I can prove beyond reasonable doubt that it is extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably the single most important extraordinary feature about it, compared with other large political parties in Britain, is that it has a written set of guiding principles, together with a multitude of written policies that it claims it would implement in the event of a Green government coming to power. This body of work, titled \u201c<em>Policies for a Sustainable Society\u201d <\/em>(PSS), is wholly controlled by the membership, and cannot be altered on the whim of its leaders. This alone sets the party aside from the Labour Party, for example, which has the biggest membership in the country, but no equivalent of the Greens\u2019 PSS.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t believe this when I was briefly a member of Labour \u2013 the fact that it has no written core principles. All it has is whatever the last election manifesto was. The shallowness of this situation is obvious: Labour \u201cprinciples\u201d are determined by a handful of people just prior to an election, and are wholly dependent on those few people. That\u2019s why its leaders often refer to it as a \u201cbroad church\u201d, suggesting that no matter what your&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/12\/come-the-green-revolution-please\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Party of England and Wales is extraordinary. Whilst I\u2019ve no idea whether it\u2019s very different to other Green Parties around the world, it is totally different to any other large political organisation in Britain. Full disclosure: I\u2019m a member of the Greens, so obviously I have some partisan interest. Nevertheless, I think I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}