Dear Sir,
A meeting has been called in Beverley this Friday 25thNov at 2pm about increasing homelessness and lack of jobs in thearea (for detail call 874096). Considering the ConDem policies ofblaming/punishing the poor (by cutting public services and pensions) forthe sins and greed of the banks and corporations , it’s a bit richthat our MP has expressed concern about the issues and may attend thismeeting. Unfortunately we can’t be there, but if we were, we wouldbe asking him exactly how he thinks that his turbo-capitalist policies aregoing to help. It’s the government’s job to understand the bigpicture and act accordingly….but all it is doing is promoting business asusual. It’s repeating the mistakes of the 1930s. It’s so tiedin with the toxic financial, commercial, energy and military ‘establishment’ that it can’t accept that things have to change radicallynow (in light of the crises in oil, most other resources, climate, economy,ecology and society) to promote local economies and localsustainability – as in the Transition Towns initiative ( and there is now alocal group) and explained by the Green Party deputy leader next ThursdayDec 1st at Norwood Methodist Church, 7.30pm.
The Government will say it is trying to promote ‘growth’ (iesupporting the CITY of London, big business and more globalisation - the very things responsible for global physical and economic overheating, wars for resources, arms proliferation, etc.) It isblinkered, to say the least. Einsteinsaid: ‘We can’t solve problems by using the same kindof thinking we used when we created them’. We are overdue for a big(positive and exciting) change in our thinking.
We do hope that others will make these points at the meeting (as well as trying to find ways to patch up the expandingholes in the local economy and services)
sincerely
Shan Oakes
East Riding Green Party
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