I’ve been disappointed with Labour for sometime feeling that after 12-years in power whilst there have been some improvements of which SureStart is a prime example – a long term strategy that will deliver benefits that won’t be fully realised for decades, however too many opportunities have been missed.

In The Guardian Peter Tatchell who’s left the Labour party and joined the Green’s writes:

This is crunch time for progressive politics. Labour has turned its back on its traditional values, torn up previously cherished socialist ideals, sidelined the trade union movement, waged an illegal war, tried to impose 42 days’ detention without charge, and made unsavoury pacts with big business and George W Bush.

The Labour leadership has pandered to prejudice and irrationality on issues including asylum, drugs, terrorism, Europe and crime. Principles have been abandoned for the sake of a few more sympathetic headlines in the Daily Mail and for another cup of tea with Rupert Murdoch.

Labour voters don’t have to put up with this rightwing nonsense. They can vote Green in the knowledge that they are voting for a party that offers a powerful challenge to neo-liberal economics and globalisation.

Greens put the common good before corporate greed, and the public interest before private profit. Our synthesis of the best of the red and the green integrates policies for social justice and human rights with policies for tackling the life-threatening dangers posed by global warming, environmental pollution, resource depletion and species extinction. The future is bright – bright Green. Peter Tatchell, The Guardian.

Yesterday I wrote that I’d be voting Green in the Europeans and Labour in the Local elections – today I write I’m voting Green – I’ve read the Green manifesto and the only reason for voting Labour, is tactically to try and keep the Tories out, however I’ve never believed in tactical voting.

Am I turning Green? – The answer seems to be yes.