Dear Barking

I am your green party candidate for Barking and I really don't expect to be elected, but don’t bet on it. Why, am I standing then? The reason is that I do not trust anybody else to do the job any better than me.

The issues are so very important that I can’t just stand by and let the same lot, or a different version of the same lot, make exactly the same mistakes they kept making over the last few decades. 

The ‘greys’  only think the electorate can cope with simple concepts, like more police would mean lower crime - which it could, or, better pay for teachers and medical staff would result in better educated kids and fewer ill adults - which again would be true, but, the big question of ‘why’ is considered too complex for the voters to grasp, so it is not even mentioned.

 

Oddly, most of the pressures we are all suffering from come down to the way we treat our environment, well, I would say that, but I have been saying so since I first stood as a Green in 1992. Finally now at last even the greys know there is a climate crisis but they don’t mention that either  - let alone the other effects of the way we have been ‘growing’ our economy, and they certainly don’t want to spend any money putting things right. All they do is offer big budget quick fixes rather than asking why do people get ill, why do schools not manage to educate children and why are there so many criminals and so few police on the beat. Greens ask these questions.The greys just want votes for hiding the evidence.  The ‘Change’ we offer is that we shall address the causes. 

Greens know it will cost a lot of money, more than the greys want to spend. If we had been heard in 1992 it would have been far less expensive and far less damage would have been done to our and everyone’s society, environment and life support systems. Greens have fully costed, far greater sums, and allocated the money for these headline issues

This is all detailed in our manifesto - available in three degrees of depth from https://greenparty.org.uk/about/our-manifesto/ But - you don’t have to read them. That’s our job. All we are asking you to do is to trust with your vote so that we can find the sustainable, environmental and socially equitable solutions that the greys keep blaming on other people.- that’s what a government is paid to do. 

All you need do is Vote Green. We do the hard bits.

       Simon Anthony 
    green@torty.org.uk

  Candidate for Barking

Promoted by Melanie Collins
on behalf of Simon Anthony
          GreenParty
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