McKenna To Quit Greens

[Macy]

A lot of the green policies were completely loopy and needed to change. I think it's inevitable that they'd leave some people behind.

They're a niche party though, so if they're not different whats the point? He's a gobdaw, but Herr McDowell was right - small parties have to be radical or they become redundant.

[Mr A]

I think she used to be an Art teacher in my old school

Point proven.

All art teachers are clinically insane.

[John83]

They're a niche party though, so if they're not different whats the point? He's a gobdaw, but Herr McDowell was right - small parties have to be radical or they become redundant.

There's radical and there's internally consistent. Bald Student used to be fond of quoting two Green Party policies - opposition to high density housing and opposition to long distance commuting. Short of living in a planned society, you can't really have both.

I'm always amused by how little they understand power generation. Most of them seem to think you can run the national grid using wind farms and solar power alone, ignoring the huge storage issues involved in that - the sun and the wind don't suddenly pick up at half time in an Ireland game.

[Bald Student]

There's radical and there's internally consistent. Bald Student used to be fond of quoting two Green Party policies - opposition to high density housing and opposition to long distance commuting. Short of living in a planned society, you can't really have both.

Another good one from their last manifesto; they were in favour of more wind turbines but opposed to any new electric pylons in rural areas.

Aside from the inconsistencies, there are also consistently loopy policies, like favouring homoeopathy over real medicine, which they were always going to have to drop if they wanted to enter government.

Macy's correct in what he says; now that the greens are in power, Jim Corr has no one to vote for. I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing.