tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20480185.post114727321698315906..comments2023-12-23T10:18:58.321+00:00Comments on The Extra Bold Blog: Why are they voting Green?Joe Ottenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380362092159905533noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20480185.post-1147422317547618382006-05-12T09:25:00.000+01:002006-05-12T09:25:00.000+01:00Paul,My conscience tells me I should support medic...Paul,<BR/><BR/>My conscience tells me I should support medical research on animals - if I don't people, and in the long run more animals, will die unnecessarily.<BR/><BR/>This is not an issue of "conscience versus moral indifference" however much the antis want to suggest it is.<BR/><BR/>As for latching on to it, it isn't that big an issue for nearly everybody. All I would expect from us is an honest and principled position, and to point out the moral shortcomings of the Green position.Joe Ottenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18380362092159905533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20480185.post-1147420166539946662006-05-12T08:49:00.000+01:002006-05-12T08:49:00.000+01:00Let's be careful about the animal rights issue!Lik...Let's be careful about the animal rights issue!<BR/>Like Joe I too was a member of the then ecology party but became a liberal democrat for similar reasons.<BR/>However, I have serious concerns about animal research and would not want the Liberal Democrats to latch onto an issue that is very contentious and touches on many peoples consciences who are not green party supporters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20480185.post-1147283478866182772006-05-10T18:51:00.000+01:002006-05-10T18:51:00.000+01:00Their hostility to any animal research played extr...Their hostility to any animal research played extremely badly in Oxford this year.<BR/><BR/>Lib Dem blogger Richard Huzzey won the Holywell ward, where the new animal research lab is sited, by landslide. The Greens won it two years ago.<BR/><BR/>The Greens also failed to win their target of St Margaret's ward by a mile. This a ward full of students and academics.Liberal Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00550999774301073111noreply@blogger.com