Green Party cuts

[david bangs]

Green Womble,

You are quite right about the Brighton Greens and their attempt at an allotment charge hike...but that is the least of the damage they are doing...with a cuts budget that hurts folk who are already hurting very badly from the recession and looking for a fighting alternative leadership...and the Greens promise us worse cuts in the next few years.

You'll have to look for solutions to the left of the Green Party if you want a solid response to the attack on the poor...to folk like George Barratt, the Barking Labour councillor expelled from the party for opposing the Labour Council cuts budget, and now leading the local fightback against the cuts...

Dave Bangs 


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: greenwomble 
  To: diggers350 at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 12:44 PM
  Subject: [Diggers350] first take their land then charge them rent,then make them jealous of ea other.


    
  That's mostly what all the posts on here that people post here are about.

  the little and seemingly big squabbles in bubbles happening within
  the rent system.

  hardly anyone gets to the crux.

  which is:

  take their land/life away from the people, then make them exceedingly
  grateful to the new owners who make them pay rent for its use.

  Rent = tax, protection money, interest debt, and what we call rent. (a
  note that describes interest debt as rent: a sum is loaned, a rent
  called interest is paid for a time period, at the end of which the sum
  which is 'rented' is paid back)

  Were we all really born to pay for our lives!

  Winstanley and all the recent historical natives didn't think we were.

  Don't forget we all were natives once.

  We have b earth right.

  money, at any level excludes.

  here is my reason for posting. on the rent prices of allotments:

  www theargus.co.uk/archive/2012/02/20/Letters+to+the+Editor+(argus_letters)/9539240.Raising_allotment_rents_is_one_hot_potato_for_a_Green_council/

  Raising allotment rents is
  one hot potato for a Green
  council
  I HAVE been a Green voter in
  Brighton all my adult life, and
  have put posters in my
  window and actively supported
  the Greens for more than 20
  years.
  The Green Party is the party
  of sustainability, of low carbon
  footprints, low food miles and
  locally-grown food. These
  make up the Green manifesto,
  along with a commitment to
  encourage allotments. This is
  why I voted for Green
  councillors.
  So why is Brighton and Hove
  City Council , run by the
  Greens, about to cut the
  council subsidy for allotments,
  resulting in a 65% rent rise?
  You now have to grow £110
  worth of vegetables to break
  even. Surely allotment
  growing underlines the basic
  principles of the Green
  movement? Surely this should
  be one of the things the
  Greens should be
  encouraging?
  The more people encouraged
  to grow food locally, the
  better for us as individuals
  and the planet. Every potato I
  eat from my allotment is a
  potato not flown in from Egypt
  by big supermarkets. This
  should be encouraged. In fact,
  the council subsidy should,
  according to Green principles,
  be increased.
  In my opinion, allotments
  should be heavily subsidised
  or even free. How else are we
  going to get people to start
  growing food locally? If we
  want to feed ourselves in a
  sustainable, low-carbon way,
  and to encourage
  responsibility for food
  production, promoting
  allotments is the obvious way
  to go. Instead the council is
  cutting help for allotments.
  I am flabbergasted, shocked
  and disillusioned. When...................continues


  
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