Are these passionate and principled people, who are preparing for a conference in Liverpool this week, what British politics so desperately needs? (The belief that they might be lay behind the surge in membership at the start of the year, which took them past the Lib Dems and Ukip.)
Or are the Greens – with apologies to Kermit the Frog – a bunch of muppets, who have no idea how
“All of us can have a bad day,” says Caroline Lucas, who won Brighton Pavilion at the last election and became the party’s first MP. She used to be leader but handed over to Natalie Bennett, who gave one of the worst political interviews of all time on Tuesday. “She undoubtedly had a bad day. It was excruciatingly embarrassing. She should have been on top of the figures and wasn’t, but we are human. These things do happen.”
Natalie Bennett coughed and spluttered and left long embarrassing pauses and forgot how much it would cost to build half a million new affordable homes, and how the party would pay for it. “Don’t you think you should have genned up on this a bit more?” asked the politely insistent host Nick Ferrari of LBC Radio. She coughed and spluttered some more.
to get things done, let alone how to pay for them?
Bennett apologised almost immediately after her self-confessed “brain freeze”. You could argue that it will do her no great harm in the long run, because what people who might vote for her party want is human beings who act and feel like the rest of us and not like the “robots” of other Westminster parties. At least that is what Greens hope. But the real problem is that Bennett sounded as if she thought the detail didn’t really matter, or at least she didn’t expect to be asked, because the Greens have been used to acting as a pressure group, shouting high-minded aspirations from the sidelines and urging mainstream parties to do better, rather than having actually to cost and do things.
The touchy-feely election brochure just published talks of rebuilding the economy to make it fairer, taking climate change seriously, sorting out the NHS and public transport and ensuring kids have a good education. Greens call these vaguely stated aspirations “the politics of hope”.
The
European Union (EU) has said that the victims of violence in Bangladesh
deserve proper justice. It said the perpetrators, whoever they are,
must be identified, brought to justice and receive a fair trial.
“Victims of violence deserve proper justice…there was a fruitful discussion on the importance of upholding the rule of law and respecting human rights as fundamental instruments for de-escalating political tensions,” according to a media release issued by the EU Delegation to Bangladesh on Saturday. The EU and Bangladesh held the three sub-groups under the framework of the 2001 Cooperation Agreement - governance, human rights and migration, trade and development cooperation on February 26-27 in the city. The discussions were open and constructive, and allowed an exchange of views on a wide range of issues the EU reiterated the importance of protecting human rights defenders.
- See more at: http://www.bd24live.com/article/8812/index.html#sthash.mv030Jb8.dpuf
“Victims of violence deserve proper justice…there was a fruitful discussion on the importance of upholding the rule of law and respecting human rights as fundamental instruments for de-escalating political tensions,” according to a media release issued by the EU Delegation to Bangladesh on Saturday. The EU and Bangladesh held the three sub-groups under the framework of the 2001 Cooperation Agreement - governance, human rights and migration, trade and development cooperation on February 26-27 in the city. The discussions were open and constructive, and allowed an exchange of views on a wide range of issues the EU reiterated the importance of protecting human rights defenders.
- See more at: http://www.bd24live.com/article/8812/index.html#sthash.mv030Jb8.dpuf
The
European Union (EU) has said that the victims of violence in Bangladesh
deserve proper justice. It said the perpetrators, whoever they are,
must be identified, brought to justice and receive a fair trial.
“Victims of violence deserve proper justice…there was a fruitful discussion on the importance of upholding the rule of law and respecting human rights as fundamental instruments for de-escalating political tensions,” according to a media release issued by the EU Delegation to Bangladesh on Saturday. The EU and Bangladesh held the three sub-groups under the framework of the 2001 Cooperation Agreement - governance, human rights and migration, trade and development cooperation on February 26-27 in the city. The discussions were open and constructive, and allowed an exchange of views on a wide range of issues the EU reiterated the importance of protecting human rights defenders.
- See more at: http://www.bd24live.com/article/8812/index.html#sthash.mv030Jb8.dpuf
“Victims of violence deserve proper justice…there was a fruitful discussion on the importance of upholding the rule of law and respecting human rights as fundamental instruments for de-escalating political tensions,” according to a media release issued by the EU Delegation to Bangladesh on Saturday. The EU and Bangladesh held the three sub-groups under the framework of the 2001 Cooperation Agreement - governance, human rights and migration, trade and development cooperation on February 26-27 in the city. The discussions were open and constructive, and allowed an exchange of views on a wide range of issues the EU reiterated the importance of protecting human rights defenders.
- See more at: http://www.bd24live.com/article/8812/index.html#sthash.mv030Jb8.dpuf
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