According to the UK Green Party website the Green Party will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election:
CMS460 The National Lottery has generated vast profits for a private company, while the portion of its income directed towards ‘good causes’ is distributed by unelected quangos. Conference believes that the National Lottery is no substitute for the accountable system of wealth distribution that would be required to bring about a just society. The Green Party would dismantle the National Lottery within the term of one parliament, without compensation for its operators.
I would be interested to hear both positive and negative views on UK Green Party’s National Lottery policies in the comments below?
This is typical of the student union politics of the Greens – essentially a bunch of middle class worthies who like to think that they know what is best for the rest of us. Interestingly – although they don’t think you should be allowed a flutter on the lottery they do believe in the free publication of pornography! I find it hard to believe that the lottery is more of a threat to freedom than hard core porn!
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