http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/bob-browns-power-trip-makes-labor-look-weak/story-e6frerff-1226087701411
So am I silly,bigoted, fearful, uninformed, or are my fears the very same ones shared by more than 4 5ths of my country men and women.

There you go again, Belly. You've linked to an article in Murdoch's Courier-Mail, which hardly even bothers to hide the fact that it's simply another piece of anti-Green propaganda in Murdoch's open war on the Greens. There is absolutely no analysis of Greens policy, just another litany of unsubstantiated anti-Green dross.

Which of course you've just lapped up, exactly as you were supposed to. The problem with politics in Australia is not the Greens. It is the propensity of ignorant voters to accept such blatant propaganda uncritically. The problem with Labor is that they've moved so far to the right that they no longer stand for anything.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/bob-browns-power-trip-makes-labor-look-weak/story-e6frerff-1226087701411

Bob Brown's power trip makes Labor look weak

"Just as the attention-seeking, look-at-me performance a year after he was dumped as Labor leader did Kevin Rudd no favours with his colleagues, the Greens' never-ending parade of "we're the power balance gang" photo opportunities is likely to provoke everything from annoyance to anger among those almost 90 per cent of voters not rusted on to Brown's outfit.

Since Brown's four new senators clocked on for their six years in the Red House, the new team has been having photo call after photo call with Greens old and new.....

Every day that Brown and his colleagues seek to claim credit and authorship of government policies, they help keep Labor in the electoral doghouse. That the Greens' MPs claim they pushed Labor to a carbon tax and will keep arguing for petrol to be included makes the Government look weak.

Brown has been saying that in his distant dreams - about 50 years away - he can see the Greens replacing one of the major parties which, because of where his party sits, has to be Labor."

The reason I likened the greens to a strangler vine, is that the vine uses the host tree to reach to the light and nutrients, and eventually deprives the host of more and more until the host withers and dies.

Thanks for posting that devastating piece of political analysis, SM. Looks like you and Belly are on the same page, indeed I often wonder why you guys argue so much, given that your respective parties are becoming indistinguishable from each other.

So the Greens seek to influence environmental policy, engage in photo opportunities and don't see themselves in power for 50 years. Oh noes! It's the end of the world as we know it!

Morganzola,
Here is an example of the utter fairyland world of the greens.

The manager of the whyalla steelworks, that employs 4000, said it could not survive with a carbon tax. This stupid semator reckons the place could become one big wind farm and survive.

This amply illustrates the practicality of the greens politicians.

No wonder hard working practical people and business types simply shake their heads in disgust and swear.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/steel-town-could-thrive-without-steelworks-says-sarah-hanson-young/story-fn59niix-1226087508211

The last time I looked at the greens policues, they were advocating lowering the age of consent and their defence policy was to do away with the ADF and instruct people in the ways of 'passive defence' which means laying down in front of the invading tanks and hoping they will lose traction as they go owver you. Brilliant!

Banjo, interesting article. Without steel, it will be interesting
to see how they build those wind turbines. Paper mache perhaps.

But then Morgan is against air conditioning as well. I wonder
if the Greens make that clear to their voters.