Showing posts with label Sunday Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sunday Politics. Show all posts

Monday, 26 January 2015

Day 101 (Yesterday): The Day The Green Surge Stopped Being Sustainable?



The last few weeks have perhaps been the most joyful in the Green Party’s history – the ‘Green surge’, initially a minor uptick in the polls made more significant by the subterranean popularity of the Liberal Democrats, has become something more substantial. Natalie Bennett even got something previous minor party leaders could scarcely have dreamed of – inclusion in the TV election debates, but perhaps most importantly – the publicity that came from the argument around whether they should be included. 

However all that ended yesterday, as their leader Natalie Bennett was forensically taken apart by Andrew Neill on what should’ve been one of her first forays into the big time. Pressed by Neill on Green Party policy, it’s fair to say that Bennett went to pieces faster than a falafel atop a wind turbine.

Natalie Bennett's interview with Andrew Neill is a must watch