19th December 2006

I am unsure why John Cordwell should be so surprised that the Greens are supportive of saving County Council farms (Gazette 15/12/06). After all the Green ethos is all about support of local economies and services. Perhaps I can recommend a visit to the Gloucestershire Green party website and he may be even more delighted to find Cllr Booth has 'some' other common agreements with the local Lib Dems.

However Cllr Cordwell will equally realise why Cllr Booth and other Greens will not be rushing to take him up on his kind offer of an application form.

Sadly despite some positive noises the Lib Dems, like the two other main parties, still believe in the dogma of free trade more or less regardless of the consequences. This will never fit with a green agenda for a socially just and sustainable future.

The recent Stern report rejected 'business as usual' economics as a solution to climate change, so now lets instead have some creative thinking and radical changes at local and national level, something the Greens have been advocating for years. 

Clive Phillips (Stroud Green Party)
Bowcott Lodge, Wotton-under-Edge

www.glosgreenparty.org.uk