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From a British perspective, the 1996 elections centred upon the modernised Labour lead by Tony Blair. Blair’s agenda, based on Gidden’s thesis of The Third Way,1 appealed particularly to those groups and ideas that the Greens had also targeted. In Germany the separation from socialism occurred in 1956, and led to the independent paths of the SPD and the Greens. In Britain, the socialist clause 4 was removed only in 1996, and the changing agenda of New Labour seemed to address the same structural problems of advanced industrial democracies that New Politics did. It was therefore necessary for the BGP in 1996 to reiterate the distinctly ecological agenda, rather than to market a new worldview of social justice, which was too similar to that of the main party contesting power.
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A. Giddens, The Third Way (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998).
Green Party, Green Party Manifesto — the Green Alternative for a Better Quality of Life (London: Green Party, 1997), 1.
D. Icke, It Doesn’t Have To Be Like That (London: Green Print, 1989). Using this title might suggest a lack of self-awareness on behalf of the British Greens.
Green Party, Manifesto for a Sustainable London (London: Green Party, 1998), 6.
Green Party, Green Party Manifesto — Reach for the Future (London: Green Party, 2001) (Hereafter Future).
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Talshir, G. (2002). Modular Ideology: a Green Caterpillar Turns into a Colourful Butterfly?. In: The Political Ideology of Green Parties. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919892_12
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