Words from an ex-Green voter ...

This is from a few weeks ago but I thought it was worth including here as it says much of what I feel about the Green Party. These words are from an ex-Green voter, and are taken from a much longer thread on Politics.ie.

Link to the post is here http://www.politics.ie/2371010-post29.html

"It is the most right-wing Thatcher-style (including adopting the use of the Thatcherite mantra 'there is no alternative') government in Ireland in my living memory. So our kids will be in classrooms with a 28 pupil per teacher ratio rather than a 29 one and that justifies the collateral damage in poorer communities? Its not just the effects of single cuts but an accumulation including direct cuts in welfare, cuts to community supports including the drug task forces etc etc along with the silencing of dissent through cuts to the community-led projects (favourably reviewed in a value for money audit) and abolishing the likes of the Combat poverty agency etc.

I believe even the PDs would not have believed they would get away with the sorts of policies this government are getting away with.

Individual members of the Green Party (and their voters) are not right-wing so why are they tolerating their party participating in this right-wing dissent-crushing government?
Thats the main question I have. I thought there must have been a flowering of some new right-leaning faction in the Greens - if this isn't the case why are the Greens part of this right-wing government?

It is the reason why this long-term green voter will not be voting green again and I am ashamed that my vote has contributed to bringing in this government. If we tolerate this etc....."

Well said Mar. You have accurately described how I and many other ex-Greens feel and why we will never vote for the Green Party again.