Yesterday Natalie Bennett of the Green Party gave a speech
on LBC (Leading Britain’s Conversation). This is a radio station which has cut
through UKIP’s arguments as well as Nick Clegg’s. The LBC has never really held
back and so it shouldn’t.
I watched Natalie Bennett on the Sunday Politics show
several weeks ago and I was not impressed by her responses. Even as a Green
supporter I didn’t find her responses polished or concise. Answers like I give
my boss at work when I am trying to avoid a telling off. They were almost a run
around. Natalie Bennett doesn’t seem to have the personality or the eloquence
that is seen in most party leaders.
Nigel Farage is seen as an anti-politics leader who provides
fresh and honest answers to questions he is asked. He is perhaps more polished
than Natalie Bennett but still he harbours points and sometimes trips over his
own tongue. He also chairs a party which is full of scandal and double
standards. Yet people still support him in their droves.
Ultimately right wing Nigel Farage has not yet said a word
in which I agree whereas Natalie Bennett has. She is not polished and I am not wholly
confident in her as a leader of the Green Party however maybe she is the yin to
Nigel Farage’s yang. She provides the approach to politics which is not refined
and pre-written but the spur of the moment and honest. The Green Party has only been catapulted into the limelight in
the last six months and it is a learning process for the party.
I believe the Green Party will not secure more than a few
seats in May but maybe this is the start of a journey where in the foreseeable
future we will see this left wing party start to really make waves. If UKIP can
with their messages of hate then surely the Green Party can with their messages
of equality and virtue.
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