{"id":6196,"date":"2015-01-09T08:40:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T08:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2015-01-09T08:40:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T08:40:31","slug":"is-the-green-party-really-dismissive-of-the-worlds-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/01\/09\/is-the-green-party-really-dismissive-of-the-worlds-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Green Party really dismissive of the world's poor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been suspicious for a while now of how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenparty.org.uk\">Green party<\/a> views economics \u2013 feeling that the faithful\u00a0thinks that economic concepts\u00a0can\u00a0be rewritten to suit themselves \u2013 they are not alone there, of course. \u00a0However, I have always assumed \u2013 naively, it turns out \u2013 that greens would have\u00a0solidarity with the world's poor and dispossessed. \u00a0Not so, if an interview with the party's leader is anything to go by. \u00a0She \u2013 Natalie Bennett\u00a0\u2013 is quoted in the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/britain\/21637420-green-party-growing-force-british-politics-if-only-it-was-more-world-green\">Economist<\/a> as saying that to be poor in India wasn\u2019t so bad as to be on benefits in Britain \"because at least everyone else there is poor too\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Words almost failed me, and so I went to their website where I was astounded by the parochial, little Englander mentality on display; sustainability really does seem to begin and end at the channel. \u00a0It appears that the\u00a0party\u00a0is in with a shout of winning a seat in Bristol at the general election, for the area which contains\u00a0Stokes Croft \u2013 a rather self-righteously, right-on\u00a0bit of Bristol I've written about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/04\/26\/i-being-born-a-sinner-and-distressed\/\">before<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've been suspicious for a while now of how the Green party views economics \u2013 feeling that the faithful\u00a0thinks that economic concepts\u00a0can\u00a0be rewritten to suit themselves \u2013 they are not alone there, of course. \u00a0However, I have always assumed \u2013...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}