Green Party Mayoral Election Broadcast - brilliant!

TelMc32

Quite possibly the best election broadcast I have seen for showing up the majority of politicians of all hues for the ridiculous figures they are...if only the Greens had lampooned themselves as well!!

http://youtu.be/4FwnYM6zOc4

Davo55

Very good. UKIP would have offered some fertile ground too.

TelMc32

Davo55 said:

Very good. UKIP would have offered some fertile ground too.

Beyond parody!

Exiled_Addick

Excellent.

ForeverAddickted

Really good was of portraying Politics at the moment... Well done the Green Party

Addickted

A million times better than their last efforts.

They haven't got that moany old Aussie woman with the grating voice doing it, talking about 'we'.

Alwaysneil

Brilliant...up until the end.

johnny73

First two and a half minutes were brilliant. Then it gets dull and preachy.

Friend Or Defoe

Enjoyable until Sian appeared.

TelMc32

Alwaysneil said:

Brilliant...up until the end.

johnny73 said:

First two and a half minutes were brilliant. Then it gets dull and preachy.

Friend Or Defoe said:

Enjoyable until Sian appeared.

Haha...have to admit that that's the point I started to tune out when it was on tv earlier.

i_b_b_o_r_g

**Posting without watching**

It's shit

; )

Dazzler21

Reading without posting...

Mackle

Friend Or Defoe said:

Enjoyable until Sian appeared.

I thought she seemed quite likeable.

i_b_b_o_r_g

I know most of the kids were meant to be, but who was that Doris at the end?

IAgree

Patronising and preachy at the end - about as much chance of winning as Fraye has of managing Charlton again! Oh no ...... actually.........

dizzee

Fairly funny until the end bit. I wouldn't vote for her, she seems dull and I don't believe anything any of the politicians say and that includes her.

kielyskickingboots

That's not even Sian - just some random they don't even bother to identify. Agree that it's excellent up to that point.

Cardinal Sin

You can't argue with the Greens immediate priorities. The trouble is, their next steps would be Medieval and barking.

daveaddick

Bunch of idiots if they want to live in Teepees and Yurts and wash in cold water fine fuck off somewhere and do it and leave the rest of us in peace. Rant over.

Jensenwasclass

They obviously saved money by casting children.
Utter rubbish!

Daggs

A good laugh, but it applies to almost ALL politicians.

cafcfan

Great fun. Clever too that they left out some of their vote winning policies as published in their manifesto.

First the good news: they want to protect the live music industry. Who could possibly argue with that? (But see further down if you wonder how the band and its kit is actually going to get to the venue.)

Here's a few of the Green's fantastic ideas:

Eliminate homelessness
Lots of new houses
Guaranteed housing for all communities
Half of London to be "green space"
(Question can you promise the latter if you are building more high-density housing and attracting the homeless from the rest of the UK because you have just undertaken to house them?)

Reduce traffic and pollution
A London-wide road charging scheme
20mph speed limits on all TfL roads (Question. What's a TfL road? Does it include for example the A102 Blackwall Tunnel approach road?)
People friendly streets
Countdown signals at all major junctions and review traffic lights to ensure pedestrians and cyclists have enough time to cross. (Even when there aren't any if my experience is anything to go by.)
Oppose all road and airport expansion and put together proposals for City Airport to be closed
Reduce traffic pollution. (Question: quite how you do that when every car, truck, taxi and bus is sitting in stationary traffic waiting for non-existent pedestrians to cross the road)
No construction traffic in rush hour periods (Question: so, your delivery lorry gets held up in an overnight diversion on the M1 and arrives late - where is it going to park while it waits for the rush hour traffic to go away?)

Reduce fares on public transport. (Question: who pays for that?)

We will ensure that smaller firms and co-operatives, alongside creative venues and businesses, receive the support they
need to flourish. (Question: what small company is going to set itself up to operate in London when the Green Party won't let them move goods and services around by road in an economic manner?)

They will fight for a living wage (I'm sure all the small businesses they'll be attracting will be over the moon about that.)

Create at least 150,000 high-quality apprenticeships aimed at young people under 25, all paying at least the London
Living Wage and with half a day’s off-the-job learning per week. (Question: who pays for that?)

Create a Bank for London specifically tasked with providing loans and finance to small businesses. (Question: when we've already got in excess of 500 banks operating in London, do we really, really, really need another one.)

Now strangely the manifesto is silent on budgetary matters or on how any of this gets paid for. Anybody any ideas?



Here's a plea to Londoners. Please don't vote for these fuckwits unless you want to participate in the destruction of your City.

man_at_milletts

I thought this was a Haribo ad.

charltonkeston

I'm giving them my vote, if they can deliver on all that the world would be a better place.
Be nice to have something really "unique" for a change.

daveaddick

Yes keston unique, unworkable, expensive (you will only be able to use your car in your drive) and mindblowingly dumb be careful what you wish for after all a nuclear attack would be "unique" as well but I am guessing you wouldn't want that? If this lot get in London will be a ghost town as anyone with any sense will up and leave, me included.

They are a bunch of treehugging, spaced out morons who's attachment to anything based on reality is so tenuous you can barely see it. The idea that you can tax technology out of existance is childish and naive.

As you can tell I am not a fan.

Leuth

If the Greens are bent on destroying London, I hope they destroy the whole world

Leuth

cafcfan said:

Great fun. Clever too that they left out some of their vote winning policies as published in their manifesto.

First the good news: they want to protect the live music industry. Who could possibly argue with that? (But see further down if you wonder how the band and its kit is actually going to get to the venue.)

Here's a few of the Green's fantastic ideas:

Eliminate homelessness
Lots of new houses
Guaranteed housing for all communities
Half of London to be "green space"
(Question can you promise the latter if you are building more high-density housing and attracting the homeless from the rest of the UK because you have just undertaken to house them?)

Reduce traffic and pollution
A London-wide road charging scheme
20mph speed limits on all TfL roads (Question. What's a TfL road? Does it include for example the A102 Blackwall Tunnel approach road?)
People friendly streets
Countdown signals at all major junctions and review traffic lights to ensure pedestrians and cyclists have enough time to cross. (Even when there aren't any if my experience is anything to go by.)
Oppose all road and airport expansion and put together proposals for City Airport to be closed
Reduce traffic pollution. (Question: quite how you do that when every car, truck, taxi and bus is sitting in stationary traffic waiting for non-existent pedestrians to cross the road)
No construction traffic in rush hour periods (Question: so, your delivery lorry gets held up in an overnight diversion on the M1 and arrives late - where is it going to park while it waits for the rush hour traffic to go away?)

Reduce fares on public transport. (Question: who pays for that?)

We will ensure that smaller firms and co-operatives, alongside creative venues and businesses, receive the support they
need to flourish. (Question: what small company is going to set itself up to operate in London when the Green Party won't let them move goods and services around by road in an economic manner?)

They will fight for a living wage (I'm sure all the small businesses they'll be attracting will be over the moon about that.)

Create at least 150,000 high-quality apprenticeships aimed at young people under 25, all paying at least the London
Living Wage and with half a day’s off-the-job learning per week. (Question: who pays for that?)

Create a Bank for London specifically tasked with providing loans and finance to small businesses. (Question: when we've already got in excess of 500 banks operating in London, do we really, really, really need another one.)

Now strangely the manifesto is silent on budgetary matters or on how any of this gets paid for. Anybody any ideas?



Here's a plea to Londoners. Please don't vote for these fuckwits unless you want to participate in the destruction of your City.

Taxing the fuck out of people like you

T

It's excellent video... really really good.

However someone ironic they've gone down this route of grown up politics when their policies are those of an idealist 15 year old

Alwaysneil

Closing City airport?

Take me fucking ages to go on my skiing holidays with Tarquin to Geneva and my business trips to Switzerland and Jersey if I have to get the chauffeur to dust off the Range Rover to take me to Gatwick.

The thing about these greens is they just live in a different world.

seth plum

I will probably vote for Sadiq for Mayor and Green as my first choice for everything else.

jimmymelrose

Alwaysneil said:

Closing City airport?

Take me fucking ages to go on my skiing holidays with Tarquin to Geneva and my business trips to Switzerland and Jersey if I have to get the chauffeur to dust off the Range Rover to take me to Gatwick.

The thing about these greens is they just live in a different world.

The thing about these greens is they just live believe in a different better world