If I say to you ‘Scottish Green Party’, what do you think of? No, I don’t mean a very small group of people, I mean policies. Maybe you’d agree that many of their policies could be summarised with three words: ‘plastic is evil’. The Greens want a tax on plastic bags ((No thought, of course, as to the volume of carbon emissions necessary to run all of the computers, office buildings etc. necessary to administer and collect this tax!)), parents to use cloth ‘reuseable’ nappies instead of disposable ones for their babies ((Eugh…)), and other such cunning plans.
So, walking along Gibson Street earlier today ((Huge traffic jam caused by some spill or another that the fire brigade were hosing away. When the bus caught up with the jam at the St Andrew’s Building - with the one 15 minutes before it not far ahead - I realised it would be quicker to get off and walk)) I see the usual ‘Vote such and such’ signs attached to lampposts ((Why the hell would I vote for the ‘Scottish Christian Party’ when I’ve never heard of it?)), including some for the Greens.
Let’s take a guess what their signs were made of. Paper? Cardboard? Bio-degradable plant fiber? Nope. Oil-based, landfill-filling, planet killing plastic. So where does that leave their ‘no nappies’ and ‘no bags’ policies?