I have to pass comment on the United Kingdom General Election if only in memory of the many thousands of people who have died over the years to make elections possible.
The leader of the UK Green Party has won a seat in Brighton. I remember many years ago canvassing in south east Cornwall for the ‘ecology party’ but rather lost interest in them when they went in for attunement (some form of pre-conference meditation). I thought their change to the name Green, to come into line with the hugely effective German Green Party, was a ‘dumbing-down’ and for many years I have watched them and listened to them on radio as they changed from a pressure group to potentially partners in a Parliament.
Of course this break-through has come when crisis is so close with the natural environment one seat looks utterly pitiful and likely to change nothing. In a very real sense unless every politician is environmentally aware we are on a hiding to nothing because so far in our society money overrules every other consideration.
That money is not natural but a system we invented which does not fit in with the natural environment at all but is parasitical upon it, is an argument still to be had. And the fact we have yet to have it shows how corrupted we have become by the system we created.
I wish her well, she will need a great deal of strength and wisdom in the years ahead and I hope she makes a difference in time.