UK Greens Unveil The Incredible Melting Tony Blair - BBC

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"The Greens have staged a super-cool publicity stunt by unveiling an ice sculpture of Tony Blair's head. "Tony Blair is melting away before your eyes - just like the polar ice caps," spokesman Darren Johnson told reporters on Westminster's College Green.

He said Mr Blair's credibility had "melted" on climate change just like it had over the war in Iraq. The party said it planned to take the sculpture to Brighton to watch it melt in the sea.

Mr Johnson urged people to "vote for what you believe in" rather than casting a protest vote against the big parties. "A vote for the Liberal Democrats is only saying you don't like Tony Blair and you don't like Michael Howard. "It is not saying anything positive about what you really want."

Green Euro MP and principal speaker Caroline Lucas said it was "common knowledge" Mr Blair had lied over Iraq, but she accused Mr Blair of perpetrating similar lies on the environment."

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4497435.stm

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1. C4 sorry for running Greens' broadcast with UKIP subtitles

Channel 4 has been forced to apologise to the Green Party for mistakenly transmitting its election broadcast with UK Independence Party subtitles.

The first three minutes of the five minute broadcast, which was aired at 7.55pm on Thursday in a prime-time slot after the channel's flagship news programme, was shown with the UKIP script. The blunder led to a furious reaction from the Green Party, which fears some viewers may confuse UKIP's negative stance on Europe and immigration with their own policies.

A spokesman for the party said it was "very disappointed" as it only had one broadcast - shown on different channels - during the campaign. He added: "UKIP's policies are completely alien to Green thinking and progressive politics."

Channel 4 said: "It was a rare and honest mistake. The subtitles were stopped before the end of the programme and replaced with an apology. Only a small percentage of viewers would have been affected."

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/story.jsp?story=634380

For the Americans, this would be the equivalent of close captioning for a Ralph Nader broadcast showing the words from a Pat Buchanan one.