Green Party decides to pull plug for planet’s sake
Yesterday being 1 April, April Fools Day, many decided to have some fun, frogblog included.
At 4.25 p.m. frogblog published under the heading:-
Green Party decides to pull plug for planet’s sake
In a bold move to combat global warming and the Government’s indifference to New Zealand’s Kyoto commitments, the Green Party is leading from the front and will immediately stop using most electrical appliances in its Parliamentary offices as of today.
“The current Government’s laissez-faire attitude to carbon emissions means that more needs to be done. The parliamentary Green Party has decided the only way we have any hope of meeting our commitments to the global village is if people flick the switch – permanently,” said Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman.
As of this afternoon all media statements will be hand delivered to the parliamentary press gallery. Rather than wasting power using energy-sapping computers, staff will type media statements on recycled paper.
Typewriters reclaimed from landfills will take the place of the energy-gobbling desktops and give the Green Party a distinct point of difference from the usual bland emailed press statements of other parliamentary parties.
To further differentiate the Green Party all releases around the ‘Green New Deal’ will be written using recycled fountain pens sourced from an organic Bolivian Emu farm. Recently elected US President Barack Obama is understood to favour this form of communication with his closest advisors due to its sustainable nature.
It is estimated the energy saved by this initiative will cancel out 0.000000001% of the country’s Kyoto obligations and the anti-environment policies that the present Government is intent on implementing.
“This may seem trivial to the media but the fact our media unit is willing to get ink stains on their best clothes shows the commitment the Green team has to doing our global duty,” said Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.
Note: It would be appreciated if, once read by the media, statements could be sent back so that the other side of the paper can be used the next day.
Now when Adam was a boy practical jokes on 1 April ended at noon. So Adam is thus unsure whether this is an All Fools Day jape, or is in fact a serious intent by the Greens, after all it is nonsense and that is their stock -in-trade in many respects.
Adam will confess that his initial reaction on seeing the blog title in his RSS feed was that the Greens had seen the light so to speak and were closing down. That of course would have been a good 1 April jape.
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LOL, several times
Reported in today’s issue of the Greens loosely affiliated but independent weekly publication, “Let Everyone See The Light”, there is a quote by a well-known Green Party supporter, closely linked to one female Green Party politician, who wishes to remain anonymous because of threats by the Greens shadowy fundamentalists to dig up his garden which is full of non-genetically engineered wholesome vegetables that he is heavily reliant on for a sustainable healthy vegan life style.
It is noted that in his revealing quote that in spite of the overwhelming political vote against the previous regime and the fact that NZ has now moved on and into new enlightened times the Green Party politicians camped in the dark yesterday within their parliamentarian quarters- because of, in his opinion, as a result of their rash finger flicking at the levers of power – were desperately trying to reset their clocks which having stopped unbeknown to them before high noon, have with difficulty issued a press statement “Green Party decides to pull plug for planet’s sake” indicating their desires to be recognized as a party that does not lack humour. Because of this insider’s revelation regarding the attempted clock resetting one does wonder about the formulation of policy in the dark.