Via Richo today:
There was a time when the Greens were all that their name suggests they should be. They were passionate about our environment and they fought really hard to protect Australia’s forests.
I was proud to be their ally in the noble endeavour of protecting rainforests and old-growth forests. I placed more than 20 per cent of Tasmania into World Heritage and, despite resolute opposition from the Bjelke-Petersen government in Queensland, I managed to list the rainforests of the Daintree region and the far north on the World Heritage register as well. Sadly, it did not take too long for me to realise that I could never do enough for them. No matter how much I achieved, they were always disappointed.
…Brown, despite everything, was a tremendous voice for the environment and by far the best leader the Greens have had. The Greens began their life in Australia as a mainly Tasmanian group. They were able to export their fervour to the mainland on the back of an environmental purist in Brown.
…They are stuck at 10 per cent because they no longer have the Greens purity of a Bob Brown. Since they stopped worrying about the trees and adopted the mantle of the true party of the left in Australia, they limited their horizons and seem determined to remain a minor party.
…As long as they are determined to push issues that not only alienate the bulk of Australians but infuriate them as well, then their campaigns will fall on deaf ears and blind eyes.
Today’s leader of the Greens, Richard Di Natale, surprised no one this week when, in line with the black-armband view of history they peddle, he called for Australia Day to be moved away from the commemoration of the landing of the First Fleet at Botany Bay. Again, he stands against what a huge majority of Australians want and believe in.
…We cannot roll over and allow the Greens to tell us how to live and what to think.
Pretty thin, Richo. The Greens can think whatever they want and they live or die at the ballot box.
The issue with The Greens today is not that they pursue identity politics, it is that they do so at the expense of being green. They are neither “Left” nor “green” so long as they support Australia’s bald-faced mass immigration class and environmental destruction program.
The issue with The Greens today is that they, like Richo’s Labor and the Coalition, are fakes.
