Dear Newsnight Gods, I offer you Chloe Smith
Osborne: Hi Chloe, in a bit of bind chum… Chloe Smith: Oh yes? Osborne: Yeah see the media have gone do-lally over this ‘u-turn’ and they want me on Newsnight. But I’ve got a dinner to go to. You...
View ArticleA note on the Green Party Leadership Election
Ultimately it's nothing to do with me. I'm not a member of the Green Party of England and Wales. But I'm an interested party, have voted Green and I love an election. Right now the GPEW are electing...
View ArticleGreen Party Leader: A question of strategy
Mere days are left for Green Party members to choose their new leader. If you haven't voted yet you really must get a move on. But the choice Greens face is nuanced one. The leader has no explicit...
View ArticleAn unscientific exit poll for #gpleader
The votes are in, but humour me this weekend and tick a box in this exit poll. Self selecting and completely unscientific but I’ll put out the results 10pm Sunday night. There’s also a deputy poll in...
View ArticleAnother unscientific exit poll, for #gpdeputy
Another poll for you Greenies. Go on, humour me with and tell us your first preference for Green Deputy. I’ll put the results out on Sunday again. Think of that frisson of excitement as you receive...
View ArticleResults just in: the unscientific exit polls
More representative than a newspaper interviewing a random clutch off the street, but less accurate than a Sixth Form research project, the unscientific exit polls are out. What do they mean? Not much....
View ArticleBennett’s Challenge
Two years is not a long time. But if you're decisive, it's time enough. With the Euro Elections in 2014 and the General Election just three years away, if the Greens are to break out of their minor...
View ArticleCoalition lovers, Eastleigh fighters
This blog appears as a guest post on Better Nation I can only imagine the icy stares, the barely concealed hate bubbling under between Conservative and Lib Dem activists in Eastleigh, back in May...
View ArticleEastleigh: enter John O’Farrell
From London, it's only an hour and twenty minutes to Eastleigh by train. And two hours from Bristol. Now Labour luvvie, comedy writer and Spitting Image wit John O'Farrell has entered the fray for...
View ArticleGoing Green
'If politics is your football, then why don't you have a team?' challenged my better half. And it was a good question. Why spend all this time and energy online, shouting at the telly and indeed...
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