To be honest, I'm not hugeley interested in the content of this thread. Greens, in a wider context, strike me as well meaning but rather naieve in certain respects. I'm still shaking my head, sadly, at that car crash interview by the Australian green, based in the UK, a few years ago. I seem to recall the Greens opposed the Amex so they can sod off as far as I'm concerned. And gammon getting their love-eggs twisted over cycle lanes can do one.
Anyway, all the best from sunny Faversham, where we have no greens, weirdly (considering this is the garden of England).
No, not a new term at all. Charles Dickens 1838 in Nicholas Nickleby.
The time had been, when this burst of enthusiasm would have been cheered to the very echo; but now, the deputation received it with chilling coldness. The general impression seemed to be, that as an explanation of Mr. Gregsbury’s political conduct, it did not enter quite enough into detail; and one gentleman in the rear did not scruple to remark aloud, that, for his purpose, it savoured rather too much of a 'gammon' tendency.
The meaning of that term—gammon,' said Mr. Gregsbury, 'is unknown to me. If it means that I grow a little too fervid, or perhaps even hyperbolical, in extolling my native land, I admit the full justice of the remark. I am proud of this free and happy country. My form dilates, my eye glistens, my breast heaves, my heart swells, my bosom burns, when I call to mind her greatness and her glory.
Basically, it was used to describe someone who uses faux nationalism to try to cover their inability to understand detail (particularly in relation to politics). I can't imagine why it's come back into common use
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I'm afraid our recollection is letting you down.
One Green (Pete West) wrote about the club staying at Withdean, but that was against party policy. The Green Party policy was to support a new stadium - indeed to conditionally support having one at Falmer, provided the club could prove nowhere was better.
At the time, Labour had an overall majority on the City Council, and The Greens, Lib Dems and Tories felt that they (Labour) weren't reporting back to the city council everything they needed to know in order to take a view on it.
As is transpired, there was a second public enquiry into proving nowhere else was better, so they got what they wanted AND proved to be closer to understanding planning law than the Labour administration. With that in place, The Green Party was in favour of Falmer.
Remember when Lewes District Council filed for opposition to the plan with a number of co-signatories? These included Falmer Parish Council, the Society of Sussex Downsmen, Friends of the Earth, Campaign to Protect Rural England and many others. Two groups absent who had no intention of being co-signatories were The Green Party of England & Wales and the Brighton & Hove Green Party, simply because they were not opposed to the stadium.
There, marked your card.
Thanks for the correction
