'Green New Deal' - that green deal you definitely remember voting for!
'Green New Deal' - that green deal you definitely remember voting for!
Part 3 of Eco Emergency
Remember voting for the Green New Deal?
Well congratulations! Here are the MPs who are going to deliver it for you:
You know… that party we all knew about? The Green New Deal Rising Champion Party?
Yesterday I touched on this a bit - as it turns out that Jeremy Corbyn and Carla Denyer are “green new deal rising champions” - not that you can tell from their registered interests (which show they’ve received funding from the absent-from-Companies-House group “We Deserve Better”).
Other champions of “green new deal rising” are…
Clive Lewis
Olivia Blake
Sian Berry
Zarah Sultana
… as well as Nadia Whittome who wrote an article for The House about why The answer is a Green New Deal
It contains some interesting lines, which I will return to (another case of me adding info that will become relevant later on), such as “nationalising water would enable us to tackle pollution in our rivers”
Green New Deal Rising’s website reads: “We’re building power inside Parliament. Our bloc of cross-party Green New Deal Champions fight for social and climate justice and stand up for our generation.”
With all this “building power inside Parliament” you wonder why its activists felt the need to storm up to Rachel Reeves this week as though they were Eco Suffragettes:
What’s the point in having a bloc in Parliament if you can’t get out of the protestor mindset? And are these “green new deal champion” MPs - especially Sultana who frequently points out “barrage of hate” she receives - not concerned to see a colleague aggressively confronted?
In other Green New Deal news, there was previously a “Green New Deal Parliamentary Group” (now expired):
Its Chair and Registered Contact was Caroline Lucas.
Here’s its very relaxing website (still running):
The APPG included names you definitely remember voting for - such as a Guardian journalist and someone from “The Rapid Transition Alliance”.
The good news about APPGs is they’re incredibly welcoming - 59 pages’ worth of them can be found here, and the Green New Deal APPG was no exception:
“He worked at Greenpeace International for ten years”
Below you can see Clive Lewis (incidentally, I have no idea why he is a Labour MP, given the fact he and Caroline Lucas are behind “the first attempt to legislate for a Green New Deal in the UK”).
The website also includes this heartwarming video:
And connects to a Global Alliance for a Green New Deal:
Here’s Lucas - in amid other members of the Alliance:
Woo democracy:
As well as Lewis and Lucas on the group’s Instagram feed:
Maybe a coincidence but the Alliance’s X page retweets Richard Burgon…
… whose company is named similarly to Sultana’s, and registered at the same address:
Talking of world alliances, this brings me onto Sadiq Khan - whose the co-Chair of C40 Cities. It also has its own Global Green New Deal:
It even became policy for Londoners. Woooooo more democracy:
Perhaps in NYC last week Sadiq Khan had a bit of time to discuss the Green New Deal…
It’s the same city Mete Coban, his recently-appointed Environment Czar, used to frequent on visits for his charity, My Life My Say…
… which frequently encouraged youth democracy…
Coban is also a fan of the Green New Deal:
Like his boss.
The same week Khan was in the US - which included discussions with the UN (and Clintons) - it’s interesting to note that My Life My Say’s new CEO was across the pond too.
Here’s Dan Lawes (the CEO) who said he was “invited to address the United Nations to discuss youth political participation”.
Participation is an interesting word, as there doesn’t seem to be much of it about. Brits haven’t been told about, never mind allowed to vote on, the Green New Deal.
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I have a research sidekick, Inverse Trig - find him on Twitter at ShireStrike and his video below. A couple of days ago he reached out and has found mountains of stuff. I generally work alone but Inverse Trig has been like Tech Jonathan Creek (a reference he won’t even get because of his age). He’s published his own findings here:
For the avoidance of doubt (none, I hope!) I despise these people and their agenda.
However I’m not sure I see anything that sinister here. MPs are permitted to participate in interest groups consisting of other like minded MPs and outside organisations to promote matters which particularly exercise them in the hope that they can become part of their own party’s policy agenda. It can’t be much of a surprise to any half awake member of the electorate that Green Party MPs, and the more extreme left wing fringe of the Labour Party, promote something called the Green New Deal.
A couple of years ago you could have written a similar article featuring such characters as Bill Cash and Jacob Rees Mogg participating in a sinister band called the European Research Group and drawn links with their Mete Cobain equivalent (apologies fir the analogy Martin showed KC!) and right wing organisations called the Freedom Association. Nobody voted for the ERG!