Patrick O’Flynn Patrick O’Flynn

The Green party is missing a trick

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The British left is moribund. The Labour party’s ratings are sliding under Sir Keir Starmer, aka ‘Captain Hindsight’, as he struggles to project anything compelling to the electorate.

The Liberal Democrats are doing even worse, with poll ratings often down at 5 or 6 per cent. They have given up on liberty — they don’t think free speech is a priority and have failed to query any significant aspect of lockdowns — and on democracy too, via their fanatical effort to set aside the result of the EU referendum.

Sir Ed Davey’s major tactic seems to be to copy Sir Keir in being generally non-committal and to shadow his every move; a higher form of fence-sitting given the lack of such moves.

There is however one exception: the Green party must think it is doing OK. And in relative terms, it is, occasionally nudging into third place. A weekend YouGov poll measured its support at 7 per cent, compared to 5 for the Lib Dems.

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