Green Alliance report: only the Green Party are 'Fit For The Future'

10 September 2008

NEWS: Green Party | www.greenparty.org.uk

For immediate use, Wednesday 10 September 2008

GREEN ALLIANCE REPORT: ONLY THE GREEN PARTY ARE 'FIT FOR THE FUTURE'

The environmental think-tank Green Alliance has condemned all three establishment parties' lack of commitment to environmental issues, with the publication of their annual assessment, "Fit For The Future" [1].  The Green Party, by contrast, met all of Green Alliance's challenges but were excluded from the report.

Green Leader Caroline Lucas MEP said:

"This report shows very clearly that only the Green Party is 'fit for the future'. At the first sign of economic trouble, the establishment parties have panicked and retreated into familiar but discredited agendas.  The Greens, by contrast, are implementing policies to protect the environment and at the same time beat the recession - cutting bills, creating jobs, protecting public services."

Green Alliance have never included the Green Party in their assessments, possibly because if they did so the outcome would be a recommendation to vote Green, jeopardising their claim to political neutrality.  Stephen Hale, the Alliance's director, appears to send a message that environmentalist voters should look beyond the three old parties when he says:

"None of the three main parties are currently showing the vision and courage to prepare the UK for the challenges ahead." [1]

The report urges politicians to "use the current economic downturn as an opportunity to prepare Britain for the challenges ahead by making the switch to a low-carbon economy," which Dr Lucas has done by putting the Green New Deal at the heart of the Green programme [2].

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Notes to editors

1. http://www.greenalliance.org.uk/grea1.aspx?id=3204

2. http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2008-09-06-NewDeal.html

 

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