Green Party calls on Santa to confirm news he is a Green voter

21 December 2016

* YouGov poll finds people think Santa Claus is a Green voter

* Greens cite low carbon transport and climate change threat to North Pole as evidence of potential support

* Jonthan Bartley, co-leader: “This poll shows that people think that Santa is a Green, but we want confirmation from the only poll that can really tell us for sure – the North Pole.”

The Green Party has called on Father Christmas to confirm whether or not he will be backing them at the ballot box.

A YouGov poll [1] has found people in the UK think Santa Claus will vote Green at the next election, prompting the party reach out to the man himself.

With the prospect of a General Election looming and local elections just around the corner in May next year, the news, if true, couldn’t be better timed for the Green Party of England and Wales.

Father Christmas is a model Green, the party said, citing his low carbon transport and demonstrable passion for the free movement of people. He provides secure, rewarding work and is famed for treating people from all backgrounds across the globe equally.

Santa would also have personal reasons to back the Greens, with climate change posing a very real threat to his home.

Rising temperatures are seeing Arctic sea ice melt at an alarming rate meaning Father Christmas could have to relocate his home and workplace unless Governments across the world take drastic action to meet climate targets [2].

And with increasing pressure to drill for oil in the Arctic directly, we could even soon see Santa on the frontline of resistance against hazardous extraction projects.

Santa isn’t just threatened by climate change - he also has a deep understanding of its root causes. Forced to use chimneys to get into homes and trapped in a tradition of giving coal, Santa is well aware of how infrastructure forces a dependency on fossil fuels, and how deeply oil, gas and coal interests are entrenched across society.

Jonathan Bartley, co-leader of the Green Party, said:

“I’m not at all surprised that people think Santa would vote for the Green Party. He shares loads of our values. He uses low-carbon transport. He sees coal as the dirty stuff that it is. And most of all – just like Greens – he doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor. He loves you just the same.

“We know he’s busy at the moment, but we’re calling on Santa to come out and publicly express his support for the Green Party. This poll shows that people think that Santa is a Green, but we want confirmation from the only poll that can really tell us for sure – the North Pole.”

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