Photograph above shows a Green Party supporter, name unknown to me. He was with Andy Davis and other Green Party people at a stall but left quite soon.  There's a photograph of Andy Davies which I took at the same event on the page Publicizing Green Party candidates. When I was taking photographs, the unknown man was unaware that the law allowed me to take photographs in this public place. I was able to correct this very common misapprehension. He preferred not to stay and left soon after. More on photographing Green Party People on the page Publicizing Green Party candidates.

The photographs of Councillor Dimond in action outside Sheffield Town Hall were not taken by me. I contacted the party to request permission to use the photographs, with blocks obscuring the faces and there was no objection. They show a side of the Green Party which seems not to embarrass the party in the least, not to be a source of shame or regret. In his public persona, this Sheffield Councillor seems to me more like a Nazi Stormtrooper or Nazi agitator rather than a representative in a liberal democracy. To me, this is someone who likes telling people what to think but I doubt if he can explain the reasons for his views or defend his views. Perhaps he is, after all, a very timid person. The appearance of complete confidence is very misleading, surely. Can he defend his views? Can he defend his own behaviour?

I use the photographs in various other places, on the Home Page of the site and the page 'Shambolic Sheffield.' The description which appears on the Home Page: Outside Sheffield Town Hall, the ludicrous Councillor Dimond of the ludicrous Green Party makes the ludicrous claim that Keir Starmer is guilty of genocide. He asks the crowd to chant, 'Starmer, Starmer you can't hide, we charge you with genocide and the crowd obliges.

So much for the tainted party that tolerates - encourages - this poisonous person, and so many others. These are pictures of the current Green Party MP's / functionaries: The size of the photographs has no linkage with the abilities of the functionary.

Below, public hanging in Shiraz, Iran, 2018. Iran executes on a massive scale. By contrast, Israel has executed only one person in its modern history, Adolf Eichmann, who of course played a major part in a real genocide, the Nazi genocide of the Second World War.

Above, spraying Japanese knotweed with glyphosate at an allotment - not one of my allotments. Japanese knotweed was growing at an allotment very near to mine. It was sprayed with glycophase by Sheffield City Council, the knotweed was eradicated and hasn't regrown.

I've practically never used glyphosate in my own growing. I've worked hard to attain  largely weed-free growing areas by other means, not involving chemical treatment.

Probably, as a rough and ready generalization, ecology is the branch of science which members of the Green Party know most about, if they haven't studied science beyond the age of 16 or so. This has obvious relevance when considering the advantages and disadvantages of using glyphosate. They may be strongly opposed to considering any advantages of glyphosate. They may consider glyphosate harmful in every respect.

A much fuller knowledge is needed to come to an informed decision - not specialist knowledge of branches of chemistry and biochemistry and physiology, but much more than a slight knowledge.

Full, very technical and not so technical accounts of the necessary scientific background are available, with detailed and not so detailed explanations of the mode of action of glyphosate and its effects on vegetation and the human body and on other organisms.

Also necessary is an appreciation of a decision procedure which can be applied in this case, as in so many other cases. I refer to the importance of 'outweighing.' Very often, there are mildly harmful effects or effects that are harmful or exceptionally harmful. If the effects are exceptionally harmful, then this may be a reason for outright rejection.

Some medical treatments have very severe side-effects but are used because the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Many medicines have mild side effects or hardly any side effects but in a minority of patients the side effects may be very serious. The medicines are still used because the alternatives would be even worse, much worse.

An immense amount of work has been carried out on the actual or potential harmful effects of glyphosate and the consensus, with only a tiny number of informed dissenters, is that the hazards of glyphosate are of a low order. In the scale of possible hazards to life, glyphosate, when used carefully, is very safe.

Green Party people - in my experience - ignore so many dangers which are overwhelmingly important. Caring for nature, caring for plants and animals and communities is important, but to ignore the threats to these peaceful activities is grossly mistaken. When Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, the Baltic states, Russia, then caring for nature and the rest had to become a lesser concern, opposing invasion or taking other action, unnecessary in time of peace, had become far more important, or should have been far more important.

The fact that Iran has missiles able to reach this country is a very serious matter. At very long range, missiles are far more difficult to aim but Iran will eventually have missiles sufficiently accurate and with sufficient range to pose an enormous threat to this country and a significant number of others. Green Party people in my experience are somehow unable to appreciate the force of this predicament and many other predicaments. They seem to me to be naive, to be lacking. They put their trust in words like 'Peace.' Using the word 'Peace' offers no protection at all. Putting words together to form simpletons' phrases offers no protection at all.

Focusing attention on minor hazards or far-from-minor hazards whilst ignoring very severe hazards is the lazy way. Proper protection generally involves hard, sustained work, great skill, sacrifice and devotion.

Below, photographs of Gay Pride in Tel Aviv