The Green Party is equipped with much artillery at its disposal. Which is quite impressive for a pacifist organization. They offer a realistic prospect to establishing class equality, as well as racial and gender equality. Through a sustainable economic system you can expect to see thousands of new green jobs, richer degrees of social well-being, and an end to foreign wars. Oh, yeah and I almost forget to mention that thing called climate change and saving the planet.

Thanks now to climate change, peak oil and an economic crisis the time now seems perfectly set up for the Green Party to finally make their mark in British politics. Not only do they offer a lucrative looking alternative to tackling both the recession and the climate crisis in one go, but they are whole heartedly committed to issues of social justice and happiness. Lets take a look at their manifesto.

The Green Party would be foolish to shy away from what is their major weapon in the fight to overthrow this crushing British establishment. We all know that serious action is necessary on the environment and the Green Party insist that they are by far the best Party for the job.

British public opinion seems to be uncertain as to where their political loyalties should lie on the subject of the environment. Both Labour and the Tories in particular are making strong claims on their environmental fronts; however, the Green Party insists that both those parties underestimate the science of climate change and that their ruthless pursuit for economic growth will essentially be to the demise of the Nation.

Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party remarks, “I sit with them on the environment committee, and it's the Tories who are forever diluting targets, who are delaying targets, diluting the ambition."

The difference between the Green Party and the Tories essentially lies upon their different economic perspectives. The Green Party believes that the interests of our country lies upon strengthening our foundations, focusing on a progressive, sustainable economic system that is centred on human values rather than on consumerism. A progressive system means that instead of just creating more and more stuff, that instead we place our attention towards the moral and technical improvements of making the stuff we have better. This is what the Green Party call progressive, something that lies at the heart of their manifesto.

In this progressive ecological society, the emphasis is on empowering communities, making them more compact, this will mean people wont need to regularly travel far distances, the aim is that most needs and desires can be satisfied within the community. Many political decisions will be based within the community, however the Green Party accepts that regional and national governments will continue to have an important role.

Caroline Lucas is keen to point out that such a strong democratic emphasis on community and sustainability will have major positive implications on our lifestyles, values and social well being, “Social justice is an absolutely key part of our policy agenda". People will now be able to choose their own working lifestyles. It will make full-time paid employment less necessary, and will encourage home-based and part-time employment, and work in the 'third sector'.

The Green Party also promises a major expansion of public transport, to increase development aid to 1% of GNP and to favour low energy non-polluting processes based on renewable energy. They plan to have introduced half of all energy to becoming renewable by 2020 and to have cut Greenhouse emissions by a whopping 90% by 2030. Additionally they plan on maintaining and enhancing biodiversity, ‘We should ensure that human activities contribute to, rather than destroy, the richness of life’.