Maltheus found himself on UEA campus yesterday and saw the Green Party stall in the square happily grabbing students to indoctrinate with their eco-friendly, peacenik policies. Two of the councillor candidates said that the Green party will become the second party in Norwich by the end of this election but neither was confident personally about their wards. Adrian Ramsay must have given them one of his insipring talks and buoyed them full of confidence!
In contrast the Lib Dem candidate that Maltheus spoke to was confident of their seat but painted the picture as trying to halt the Green advance rather than make meaningful gains...could this be the election when the Greens become the second largest party in Norwich?
PS - One of the candidates didn't even know how many councillors his party had in City Hall!
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Which LibDem candidate was confident about their own seat?!?! They are defending Town Close, Eaton, Thorpe Hamlet this year ... and none of those are that safe ... do they think they can gain? Some of us remember the Couzens regime and won't vote for them again.
Haha, not that would be telling. Not too confident about gains but thinking they might hold the fort
I agree with anon - the LibDems are beaten in Town Close, and are holding onto Thorpe and Eaton by their fingertips.
Aontony has siad for the lsat few years that Eaton is close. It never is. he claimed the same on the vote-2006 forums (still available online) last year.
The Greens are eco fascists, eally a sort of Green labour, propping Labour up and contradicting themselves all the time.
I was told the Greens chaired a committee lokking on to the issue of trees. The supported its aims and the report, then having chaired the committee they voted against it !
Tee hee - Eco facitsts, propping up labour. Been reading LD leaflets?
Have you seen the LDs refer to the recent ‘green tax rise’ in their newsletters? Greens abstained on the budget and LDs voted against it, but with Mr Couzens publicly calling the rise an unfortunate necessity.
As Mr Little and co have stated, few voters fall for this, but such negative campaigning must be damaging politics. I often meet people who say “what’s the point – they’re all rubbish”. Clearly Labour, LD, Greens, and Tories all do good work, so why not keep things positive?
And for the record, the Greens chaired a committee on tree maintenance, agreed with a lot of the report and influenced a good deal of change, but couldn’t persuade the other parties on a few vital issues so abstained. Things are not always black and white.
From a GP member
Then as chair of the committee why did they let it go to full council?
I was at that council meeting at the points they disagreed with was the management of the strategy, NOT the strategy. They failed to grasp the two are different.
As chair of the committee these are thing that were not dealt with, perhaps Ramsey is not as good as his hype!
To be fair to Adrian the Tree Strategy HAD to come to Full Council. Their voting record was, however, I agree bizarre.
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