Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger
The Greens, often seen and promoted as an alternative to the old line parties are not really all that different when it comes to democratic decision making. They are just as bad as the other parties it seems, well maybe not worse than the BC Liberals who also have a penchant for fixing nominations by running roughshod over local constituency associations, but still democracy seems to be a bumpy road, especially with our first past the post system.
Jane Sterk President Green Party Appointed Candidate Herself!
If we had proportional representation as an electoral model many of the ingredients for rigging the game and stacking the deck would be lessened, as a number of Greens would be elected and that would reflect the wishes of many voters who prefer their flavour of politics.
In lieu of that ‘Strategic Voting’ between the BC Greens and the BC NDP to back whoever has the best chance to win over the BC Liberals makes sense but not to the party leaders. <sigh>
Guy Dauncey Called For Co-operation With NDP.
The Greens should have a voice but to date only one has ever been elected and that of course is in Saanich where Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May won the first election in Canada period.As it is now central party influence and top down candidate installations are far too often the case and that should not be happening in any party, but it does.
Check out this report by Victoria Colonist reporter, Rob Shaw.
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After witnessing how hard the Greens and Lizzie May pushed in the recent Victoria by-election , I have come to the conclusion that the environment is not their priority after all. It is power at all costs. The naive amongst them think that they really care and suggest to not run a progressive against a progressive. I guess it is time for their Green education.
the beauty of joint nominations meetings, to establish one candidate in conservative held ridings is that it allows for a number of contributing factors to be maintained while ensuring we have a real impact.
In other words. The idea allows for competitive politicos to have a competition among the opposition parties and have a winner.
It also avoids the pitfalls of merger, which in the case of NDP and Libs are significant. People point to the Conservative/Reform merger, but that merger involved much different dynamics, a relatively new party that was mostly interested in achieving power and it was among the right, who will do anything to win.
This is why joint nominations are superior to strategic voting and or mergers.
It keeps the parties in tact and their partisan practices unscathed. It allows for politicos to fight it out among themselves.
It delivers results and will work to have the house of commons properly reflect the will of the majority.
People say it is undemocratic which is complete balderdash.
The whole process is not only democratic, but it is a superior strategy for progressive political people. In fact it is the single best strategy we have contemplated to forward our political will.