Dr Sam is the man for the South Devon Greens in Torbay

By PRSD, on Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Dr Sam Moss has emerged as the South Devon Green Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Torbay.

The Greens have high hopes of making a breakthrough in the marginal seat of Torbay, and they reckon Dr Sam is the man to do it.

Sam, who lives in Paignton and has lived in and around Torbay most of his life, is a chiropractor who served in the Royal Marines for nine years.

He told the PRSD: “The Green Party has a strong commitment to social justice, civil liberties and putting public services back in public hands. We are fundamentally opposed to the Afghan war and our undemocratic mayoral system of local government. That is why I am proud to stand as the Green Party candidate, to give the people of Torbay the chance to vote for a fairer, more sustainable society.”

“The Green Party of England and Wales is fully democratic – funded and run by grassroots membership and against illegal, immoral counterproductive wars.

“It is the acceptable face of British socialism and totem for animal rights, it supports thriving independent local business and, of course, a low carbon green economy.”

• Are the Greens the acceptable face of British socialism? Comments below, please

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Ana Barroso

Pedro, Sorry for my mistake. I am used to sign by own name and do not hide under pseudos. My voice and opinions are mine alone.
Thanks for your email and I do appreciate your opinions, comments but I do know and I am aware of all of it. Even thought it was not quite what I was trying to communicate or share.
Leaves me only one thing to say, unfortunately what I conclude is that the first past the post electoral system in UK is very old fashioned and obsolete in today's modern EU then.

I don't want to get into this too much, is not really important, (for me importance is what we do to change, actions) but in my opinion a Green constituency, a Green Candidate. And I wish people simplify life and things and get the job done, is that what it counts.
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Pedro

Ana, I appreciate your comments. Politics can so easily be a dirty business - it is a difficult environment in which to
maintain integrety.

The Green Party seeks to stand candidates in as many constituencies as possible and deliberately does not take into account if the encumbered MP is 'quite green' or not. This is because it is the only way to forge ahead a get our message heard despite the extremely limiting naure of the first past the post electoral system.

The Green Party has radical ideas which sets it apart from all the others. e.g. we believe that the persuit of perpetual growth is not only an economic impossibility given the finite nature of the resources of the planet, it extremely damaging to both society and the environment.

ps: Im not Portuguese, just using a nom de plume.

For all " Be Green" is a way of living, how conducting ourselves in this world, how we see others and ourselves inside and how we can help the world and societies.

I have a feeling after reading all of these comments that there are still people out there really narrow minded and even putting up a fight only by the old law of shut/attack. I didn't see any proof of any of the comments throwed by Tom and Fin.

I wish they would really get themselves down to earth, be objective, Honest and without cheap shots or cheap demagogies because at the end nobody could tell "who is the Tory millionaire".

Do not throw stars up in the air if you don't know what are you really, really talking about it. Does anybody in these comments know what really is Politics or even studied it and really know How the Real World functions?

I recently met Dr Sam and he's definitely the only man that seemed Honest and Caring For US All, inclusive the Society and the World resources, ready to make the Change and Talk for Us ( Do you see many eager to do that? Not talk on Top of us and impress us, like we have been bombarded with Tories and Labour connections and talks in the News) and in Between Us, it seems that we are more comfortable with the "Normal" Lies and for them to be like a part of a cartoon, only in the TV approach, that is sad) and the most out there that I have seen in 7 years in Politics. Do you want to judge that? For those who talk without knowledge, opinion is one thing, Change and Knowledge is Another.

I don't think that the snow in Torquay was enough to wake up the society and the low spirited and the aggressiveness and laziness in our society is not enough.

It seems that only Pedro, (who I might say that looks that he's a Portuguese person to me, if it is I would like to met him)and Mark are the only ones talking sense.

For everyone to know all the other Europe is more advanced in the "Green" things that we are, have a better society attitude, soul attitude and politics attitude. If anybody says otherwise be prepared to list with knowledge and examples of countries and experiences of such to me.

Food for thought.

If the LibDem candidate is so green minded he is welcome to join the The Green Party, the only party with sustainability at the core of all their policies. On the whole the LibDem record on the environment at local and county level is very poor - supporting by-passes and lets not forget the LibDems had control of Devon County Council when the decision was made to commit to 30 years of incineration as the long term solution to the waste problem.

Katy Haslem

Torbay already has a Green MP. According to They Work For You he has one of the greenest voting records of any MP in the country. The Greens are putting a candidate up in a seat with such an incumbent when all they can do is help replace him with an Ashcroft funded Tory! The Greens should be helping candidates with good environmental voting records who support electoral reform. There aren't very many of them so there are plenty of other seats they can stand in.

Mark

For a few weeks now I have spotted and spoken to Dr Sam while manning his table in Victoria Street Paignton.That in itself gives him an edge,where are the other parties? The Green Party of today has come a long way from the old days of the Ecology Party.Their policies are broader,and strike a chord with people from across the political spectrum.Torbay could do a lot worse than elect a Green to Westminster.And a few seats on Torbay Council could only benefit the bay.

Finn

Wrong Pedro, according to the EC you have a non dom Tory millionaire giving you money. I imagine it's given so you split the anti-Tory vote and let the Tories in.

Which Tory millionaire might that have been? The Green Party dont have dodgy doners unlike Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems. Our funds come from genuine members, most with modest means, yet we manage to punch above our weight and will continue to do so.

finn

Pedro, The environment, social justice et al is stuffed under Greens. Look at Ireland where the Greens are in government.

Tom, you're right that's why a Tory millionaire funded the Greens.

Dusty Miller

Greens don't have all the answers. Maybe they have none, maybe there are none. But at least they are asking the right questions.

The environment is stuffed under Labour, the Lib Dems and the Tories.

Tom

Wont having a Green candidate in places like this just let the Tories get in? That's hardly good for the environment...

fin

So what has happened to “Greens challenge the narrow, linear view of 'progress' measured by continuous economic growth, favoured equally by socialists and conservatives…”