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Originally Posted by Damien
You would think she would have learned after the last interview. :roll eyes:
There is only so far you can get by appealing to a disaffected electorate. Unless the country really is going off the rails then I would imagine moderate voters are going to look for a certain degree of competency from those they elect.
Maybe the Greens have costed this but this interview confirms an impression many would have that these is a policy they've pulled out of thin air because it sounds good. Let's face it, that probably is what has happened.
These people are asking to be elected into positions of actual power where they'll influence lives and whilst they won't win anywhere near enough seats to either form a Government or from a significant part of a coalition they could still represent a consistuency.
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Very valid points.
Parties on the fringes, less well resourced and financed than the mainstream parties, have to go out on a limb every once in a while and announce a "feel good" policy that they haven't really costed or been intelligently briefed on.
The greens weren't the only party caught up in a policy explanation disaster yesterday.
UKIP launched their health policy and were unable to explain how they would deliver certain elements of it when challenged. Admittedly it wasn't car crash TV in the sense that the greens policy issues were, none the less it happened and,
when dissected, doesn't really stand up to scrutiny and is exposed for the frail attempt at populist appeal that it is.
Smaller parties really must do better and up their game if they want to shape politics rather than play politics.