tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post6943110404954093618..comments2024-03-27T16:39:43.522+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Why aren't the Greens doing better?Jonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-8027485037719418882013-03-23T10:24:28.749+00:002013-03-23T10:24:28.749+00:00The PR angle is a part and the LibDems have taken ...The PR angle is a part and the LibDems have taken some of their ideological space. FWIW I wish the LibDems was more like the FDP! My sense is that the Green movement is essentially too upper-middle class based and working-class and lower middle class don´t buy into it. They see it as bossy & green economic policies would eat into their standard of living that they consider already pretty precarious. :/mattburrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08285453319745942075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-10349029278412552192013-02-07T08:08:44.750+00:002013-02-07T08:08:44.750+00:00The answer is simple: Because there is no Proporti...The answer is simple: Because there is no Proportional Representation in UK-wide elections and local elections in England. See also http://herbeppel.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=proportionalHerbert Eppelhttp://hetranslation.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-38696218959937647592013-01-31T23:14:17.266+00:002013-01-31T23:14:17.266+00:00I think Wolfi there is a fundamental difference be...I think Wolfi there is a fundamental difference between British and German political parties. The German Liberals - FDP are very right-wing and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance '90/The Greens) are a bit more like the Lib Dems. 2005 in Hamburg there was a Green-Black (Green-CDU)coalition. In 2009 the Saarland Greens rejected the option of a left-wing 'red-red-green' coalition with the SPD and Die Linke (the old DDR socialists)in order to form a centre-right state government with the CDU and Free Democratic Party (FDP), a historical first time that a 'Jamaica' (black, green and yellow) coalition has formed in German politics. GPEW would never work with ToriesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-89377441706929194542013-01-31T21:07:48.661+00:002013-01-31T21:07:48.661+00:00There must be a fundamental difference between Bri...There must be a fundamental difference between British and German political thinking.<br /> <br />Did you know that in Baden-Württemberg (Schwab country, where Mercedes and Porsche cars are built ...) we have a green-red coaltion ?<br /> <br />And all our university towns and the capital have green Mayors!<br /> <br />While in Britain ...wolfinoreply@blogger.com