Green Party of England and Wales: Today’s government announcement of 400,000 “green jobs” misses the point of the Green New Deal, the Green Party said today. Professor John Whitelegg, a leading academic and consultant (1) and Green Party spokesperson on sustainable development, said this morning: “The Brown New Deal is not a Green New Deal. It relies on nuclear power, which is not remotely green and which sustains the fewest jobs per megawatt of any form of electiricty generation. Replace nuclear with renewable …