There are billions of people on this planet and technology has been used to serve the interests of private companies rather than being used to help humanity as a whole. We are in a high tech age and most people live in poverty. What an awful state of affairs.

I agree with the values of the party. After all, the Tories don’t care about individuals as people. They just see people as statistics and individuals as having a productive value. Everyone is expected to work from birth until death and those who can’t are labelled scroungers and allowed to fall by the wayside.

Do you really think no one would replace them if they left gaps in industry?

Do you really think no one would replace them if they left gaps in industry?

As I said, the Green Party does not prescribe one form of insulation over another. I’m not an expert in cavity wall insulation but it does seem that there are different types and the ‘wrong’ type can lead to damp issues. I live in an old damp house myself, and I know that one factor that seems to get overlooked is ventilation. Old houses have been made much more airtight without much thought to ventilation. Modern, highly insulated and airtight houses, are usually fitted with a mechanical ventilation system that keeps moisture and indoor pollution under control. As I said before, any insulation work needs to be appropriate to the building concerned.

In the second section of your reply you’ve mentioned a whole slew of policies and I don’t have the time to go into each of them in detail. The policies do take a very different approach, to the current neo-liberal agenda, and as such can be presented as unrealistic or ‘pie in the sky’, when framed against current ‘orthodox’ thinking. If you actually spent some time reading the policies I’m sure you’d realise that they are, broadly, very sensible and well thought out http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/core-values.html

I’m not talking about any particular story. I’m talking about a policy that seems to place a great deal of value on something architects and builders agree isn’t a good idea in terms of the property being free from dampness and future structural problems.

If you want stories, here’s one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/advice/11149260/I-bought-cavity-wall-insulation-so-why-is-my-house-damp.html

Here’s an article about older houses and how cavity wall insulation is a very bad idea: http://www.heritage-house.org/insulation-causes-damp.html

I’m not a fan of austerity cuts and I do think the worse off in society get unfairly penalised. However, I have to vote for realism and a clear understanding of economics rather than a pie in the sky fantasy of increased spending everywhere while being hostile to growing the economy, nonsense like stopping road building, limiting copyrights on intellectual property and saying everyone can live on a Citizens’ Income which is just a more Communist way of saying The Dole http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/23/green-party-plan-to-limit-copyright-attacked-by-writers-and-artists
and tinkering around with things that just annoy people like 20mph speed limits http://worthingdaily.co.uk/news/20-mph-limit-worthing-rejected/

Where by “mankind”, for the last forty years we mostly meant “white males in wealthy nations”.

Computers are *just now beginning* to benefit mankind. (Despite the best efforts of the right. Ever notice that every the press runs scare stories about the supposed golden lives of benefit claimants, they say something like “owns an ipad” or “flatscreen TV”? Because only the wealthy are supposed to have those.)