The Greens/EFA group on the European Parliament have a vote tracker, to show how parties voted in the Parliament. See below for the Tories' abysmal record.  I have gone through the liberal group record on Environment, public health, energy and climate change, and pasted them below.  Though not as apalling as the Tories, they have made some surprisingly bad decisions, undermining the claim of the LibDems to be "green".  They are not the greens, they are a bunch ov very naughty boys and girls.
UK Liberals :  
  * Insisted on exempting big, polluting cars from stricter pollution
     standards under EU legislation
   * Supported weaker rules to regulate hazardous chemicals
   * Supported reclassifying waste incineration to promote its use
   * Supported the minimum necessary EU greenhouse gas emissions
     reduction targets
   * Supported the necessary steps to avoid dangerous global warming by
     delivering domestic emissions reductions
   * Wanted weaker car CO2 emissions limits and wants to delay these
     limits in line with the demands of the manufacturers
   * Wanted aviation to be treated more leniently than other industries
     in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions
   * Wanted to let airlines off the hook and exempt them from paying
     for their pollution
   * Supported an emissions performance standard ensuring only the
     cleanest power plants could be built
   * Supported making the EU's energy efficiency target binding
   * Some MEPs did not believe the EU's energy efficiency target should
     be made binding as to the potential damaging consequences, others
     had no opinion
   * Did not believe the EU should have a plan to phase out dangerous
     nuclear power
   * Did not believe new EU nuclear safety rules should be designed to
     promote the highest possible safety standards
   * Did not want the use of public funds for nuclear research to be
     limited to research into nuclear safety
   * Some MEPs did not believe the EU's energy efficiency target should
     be made binding as to the potential damaging consequences, others
     had no opinion
Will the schmedia give space and time to these kind of facts? Does the Pope clean his natal cleft with a handful of leaves?
If you think green, vote green.
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