The Greens could do surprisingly well at the next election
Congratulations to Caroline Lucas, the amiable Green MEP, who has become her party’s first leader. The creation of such a post was itself a victory for the Green Party’s Realos over its Fundis: until yesterday, fearful of centralising power, the movement had had two “principal speakers”, one of each sex.
The future could be bright for Caroline Lucas’s Green Party
Caroline is hard-headed, but principled. You don’t catch her taking environmentally unfriendly flights which offer a handsome profit on the mileage allowance – something that not every Green MEP can boast. She has kicked off with a populist yet idealistic campaign for cheaper fuel, funded by taxing the oil corporations: “Just three companies – BP, Centrica, and Shell – together made £1000 profit every second over the first 6 months of this year. These corporations are robbing from the poor to give to the rich and they know it. And it’s about time they learned that in a progressive democracy, there is no place for robber barons.”
I’d have thought that this line will play with a large chunk of the electorate. And there is a pleasing consistency to Caroline’s ideology: she extends her suspicion of the multinationals to other big, undemocratic outfits such as the EU.
When the Green Party last fought a European election on an explicitly anti-EU platform, in 1989, it secured 14.5 per cent of the vote. At the following election, it dropped its scepticism and scored just 3.1 per cent. But the party now has some hugely impressive and articulate figures: not just Caroline, but Siân Berry, Jenny Jones and others. If they play their hand deftly, they could do extraordinarily well at the European election in June.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
