Re: Green Party Tauranga candidate Ian McLean's letter (The Sun, August 1). His description of the Green Party is totally misleading and idealistic.

I think the Green Party is a fraud, purporting to be Green when really they're an extreme left party.

Co-leader Russel Norman was involved in Australia with the Socialist Workers' Party, a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist organisation. Tigers don't readily change their stripes. You can't get more Left than that. One election promise is to buy back all electricity-generating companies. This is an extreme left policy, bordering on communism, and has nothing to do with green policy. They don't say where the funds will come from for the buy-back.

Surely from more borrowing, putting us further in debt, but this doesn't bother the left ‘borrow and spend' philosophy.

Nothing in Russel's resume supports him as a suitable candidate to serve in Government. He hasn't been involved in commercial or business activity. Surely some relevant experience must be required? Green is not Green, it is Left.

G Beaumont, Greerton.