IT'S BEEN quite funny watching the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems falling over themselves to show off their green credentials.
And it appears there's been a bit of that going on locally too. I'm told by one of my spies that Labour's election leaflets have a distinct green look about them - as in the actual colour.
They couldn't confirm whether it was printed on recycled paper, but they'll let me know soon.
I've asked my spy to keep their eyes out for a Tory leafet so I can compare. I suspect that due to all this colour-swapping, the Greens will be putting out blue and red colour leaflets (or purple perhaps?)
It's strange how it's now become so cool to be green. In the 80s, it was usually the preserve or spotty students with limp hair, CND T-shirts and 50 year old men (and women) with beards, cardigans and an unhealthy obsession with tofu.
Politics is quite faddy - one minute people are moaning about crime, then the health service, then the poll tax, then education and now it is green issues.
I wonder whether it will stay the course or, like a hyperactive five-year-old's toys, get pushed to one side once they get bored.
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Steve Hanlon wrote...
David, it made me smile when you referred to recycled paper for leaflets in your post.
When we had the Labour leaflets printed I realised that we had missed an opportunity to "practice what we preach" in not getting them printed on recycled paper.
Since then, I've been thinking about the number of leaflets that we put out, not just at election time, but through the year. There are tens of thousands of leaflets produced, and I think using recycled paper is a good idea. There is no reason that they should all be printed on new bleached paper.
I can't see a technical reason for it not working, it should work on the office litho printer. Obviously we'd need to do the sums, but in principle it would be a step forward.
Posted by: Steve Hanlon | May 7, 2007 9:43 PM