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The Green Party leader won her party’s first seat in yesterday’s British election. The MP elect, Caroline Lewis, characterized it as being a historic moment. Really it is nothing but a blip on the electoral map. There are plenty of small parties in Westminster that compete for attention.
Furthermore there has been no great ground swell of support for the Green Party. The Green Party increased their vote from the 2005 election by a mere 5 000 UK wide. It is doubtful that they represent a new force in British politics.
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The Alliance Party also got its first seat this election too and an Independent won, and another 2 term Independent lost and so did that loser George Galloway thank goodness.
The Green party literally dumped all their resources into taking that seat. The BBC said they had an amazing 200 volunteers working for them. I laughed Jason Kenney in Calgary-Southeast usually has close to 500 working on any given campaign.
The fact is, that is how the game is played, and the Canadian Greens could learn a lesson, run a credible candidate, dump your resources into a seat you think you can actually win and campaign for it and establish a beach head. Quebec Solidare did the same thing and won a seat to the National Assembly when they got 3% province wide.
Listening to the BBC talking heads you would think that this was their first election.
They kept blathering on about how the swings weren't working out as predicted and that seats were being won and lost were not uniform and that we were seeing swings different in different constituencies blah blah blah
Did it ever occur to anyone doing election coverage that Campaigns in first past the post are won and lost on strength of candidate, local issues, party resources, volunteers, organization, history, weather and any number of other factors?
Watching this live on Skye News in HK she could be a deal in who forms the government. A number of Labour want a anti con coalition of progressives.
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