Ah yes, because before these were invented frames could only be used once before having to be set alight 😆

Its sad, because we've never needed the Greens more. But if the Greens are no longer the most progressive party when it comes to climate action and climate justice, then they must take stock and refocus

It is very sad that so many vote to continue injustices

This is why the incoming Government must get serious about tackling transport emissions - the only sector that showed a year-on-year increase in greenhouse gas emissions in 2023
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It is as much the way they have comported themselves as the key metrics on emissions or the number of bills passed (e.g. their response to class/climate justice, which increasingly waned during their tenure in government)

I think we were all realistic about what was possible in the position that they were in (albeit, it was their choice to enter the coalition)

But, compared to the Programme for Government and promises prior to the election, they have underwhelmed in our opinion

Again, the atmosphere doesn't care why we fail to cut GHG emissions - only that we do

We're not disagreeing that politics is complex and fraught with change and compromise. Just that the Greens have not delivered on their promises, and that has shown in GE24

Their manifesto from this election was not science-aligned. Hence why they scored so badly in the Friends of the Earth and Not Here Not Anyway reports

The Programme for Government was agreed by all parties as the deliverables for their term. They failed to deliver

Thanks Simon, we're glad you liked it.

We hope its nuanced - it could have been many tens of thousands of words long, but we hope its a fair reflection of where the party has drifted from its own values and promises

We're fully with you on wolves now! :)

Our hope is, very much, that the Greens will come back stronger from this. We need them!

But we also need them to be effective, progressive and science-aligned

We hope there is nuance in there and that it also does recognise that the Greens did effect some meaningful changes

The question is whether that's enough, and climate science, the Programme for Government and the Climate Act all say its not, sadly

Yes, a tiny minority is culpable for the vast majority - but we can also see that the majority aren't really digging deep when it comes to actual climate action/just transition

None of our climate action is actually in line with IPPC climate science...

We'd dispute that. As the article outlines, they were no longer the progressive option on climate action or climate justice

Regardless of what the national polls might say (can we ever trust them?!) there are many Green voters who have been disillusioned and voted elsewhere

Such a disappointment, and yet they should be such an important party at this time in the Climate Emergency

Hmm, we can see the logic, but if anyone thought FF/FG were taking any climate action then they weren't paying attention in the first place

But we totally get the sentiment. We hope its a useful, nuanced article