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Thu 06 Jun 2007Salad days over for Greens, it's time to bite the bulletThe message from the top was clear: Time to leave behind the salad days, when they were green in judgment and believed they could change the world on their own.The message was unequivocal: "Time for Government." In case party members didn't quite grasp what their elected deputies were saying, this was printed down one side of the complimentary pens left out in the Mansion House.