Comments on: Green Party election broadcast

By: Natalie Bennett

Natalie Bennett — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:49:31 +0000

Thanks Christos, I didn’t realise that – it is useful to know.

By: christos hatjoullis

christos hatjoullis — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:56:07 +0000

dware will be glad to know that a slightly different version (with an extra scene for ‘free school meals’ at the beginning(went out nationally on itv and bbc1 in synch with this london mayoral broadcast, (obviously with the bus & tube scene cut) and with caroline lucas in the same green background at the end.
so the locals and nationals did in fact benefit from the coherence of the message.
hope it makes everyone think,
they be daft not to….

you can take that info on good faith; i produced the animations at shroomstudio.com

By: Natalie Bennett

Natalie Bennett — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:09:27 +0000

Well maybe we can show America the way – but I concede you have it a lot tougher as political climates go, and ours looks hard enough.

Sorry about that Sue – confess I didn’t read Lewisham – only took a quick glance at Camden, which had the conclusion that I’d already reached (although it did explain why Nicky Gavron is standing here, over which I had been puzzling – she’s on the top-up list, so will probably get back even after loosing to our horrible Tory.)

By: Sue Luxton

Sue Luxton — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:50:16 +0000

Just read the LCA analysis – very good and all that, but they say that the Green candidate for Greenwich & Lewisham is Darren, and it’s not, it’s me! Guess I need to be a bit more of a media tart!

By: dware

dware — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:39:49 +0000

you’re right–it’s quite fun, and if a viewer stays the course (not assured because of the modern tendency toward shortish attention spans) he or she would have to be daft to not opt for the Greens.

I wish to hades that our locals and what passes for the national Green Party here could get their collective act together well enough to come up with something as coherent as this advertisement.

Instead, we’re treated to the every-four-years drama of guessing just how many votes Ralph Nader might garner.

Seeing this ad reminded me of something I saw in TimeOut back in the ’70s: the feature took the line of “What energy crisis? We’ve still got wind and shit…” The piece proposed the proto-Green transformation of urban centers using microgeneration, energy efficiency in housing and office blocks, more (and healthier) gardens, improved public transportation and MORE CYCLING. Not a bad approach.