Green Party candidate makes howler on Pat Kenny this morning

[green_shoots]

RTÉ.ie Media Player: RTÉ Radio 1 (51 minutes, 17 seconds in)

Elizabeth Davidson: The Green Party is looking at renewable energy and industries which...we believe that the recovery for jobs will be green and that that's where our future lies. As you see this morning there's an announcement of a wind farm that's being set up in the west of Ireland to produce jobs. This is...this is...

Pat Kenny: This is a manufacturing plant to build wind turbines

ED: It is, but the whole thrust of the economy in the future will be green, and I think that George is looking back at an old model. After all, Fine Gael talked up the property bubble as well; they wanted to cut stamp duty to keep the prices inflated.We always said in the Green Party that this was crazy. We believe in a sustainable economy and we said, and we were first to say, that it was treason what was happening in the banks. When we're talking about energy, green energy is the way forward. This is what the world wants, this is what the world needs...

PK: Alright but Bord Gais is a company....based on what you're saying, if green is the future, you might as well sell it off now before anyone cops on that it's going to be worth nothing in a few years.

ED: Well, you know, it's a national asset, I don't believe in selling off national assets.

PK: But I mean if green is the future, Bord Gais has no future in selling gas

ED: Well, there's green gas, green natural gas.

Alex White (or George Lee): Sorry?

[Pause]

ED: Natural gas is a green...[long pause]

PK: No, it's a fossil fuel

ED: It's a fossil fuel, but what we're looking at is energy, cheap energy, and that's what it is.

[Clanrickard]

Ha ha ha! Classic. They are so fixated with greenness they have forgotten what it was they were after in the first place.

[Ah Well]

RTÉ.ie Media Player: RTÉ Radio 1 (51 minutes, 17 seconds in)

Elizabeth Davidson: The Green Party is looking at renewable energy and industries which...we believe that the recovery for jobs will be green and that that's where our future lies. As you see this morning there's an announcement of a wind farm that's being set up in the west of Ireland to produce jobs. This is...this is...

Pat Kenny: This is a manufacturing plant to build wind turbines

ED: It is, but the whole thrust of the economy in the future will be green, and I think that George is looking back at an old model. After all, Fine Gael talked up the property bubble as well; they wanted to cut stamp duty to keep the prices inflated.We always said in the Green Party that this was crazy. We believe in a sustainable economy and we said, and we were first to say, that it was treason what was happening in the banks. When we're talking about energy, green energy is the way forward. This is what the world wants, this is what the world needs...

PK: Alright but Bord Gais is a company....based on what you're saying, if green is the future, you might as well sell it off now before anyone cops on that it's going to be worth nothing in a few years.

ED: Well, you know, it's a national asset, I don't believe in selling off national assets.

PK: But I mean if green is the future, Bord Gais has no future in selling gas

ED: Well, there's green gas, green natural gas.

Alex White (or George Lee): Sorry?

[Pause]

ED: Natural gas is a green...[long pause]

PK: No, it's a fossil fuel

ED: It's a fossil fuel, but what we're looking at is energy, cheap energy, and that's what it is.

Yep I heard it this morning and that was hilarious!

Do you have the wording also where Brennan said NAMA was a success, Lee was about to hop in and PK grilled Brennan on it?

Fire it up in a separate thread?

Cheers

[mollox]

Don't you understand the Alice in Green Wonderland concept?

Words mean whatever the Greens choose them to mean at any point in time.

I heard that on Kenny this morning - absolutely hilarious.
I must buy my electricity from Bord Gais, presumably that will also be categorised as green energy.

[iartaoiseach]

Ha ha ha! Classic. They are so fixated with greenness they have forgotten what it was they were after in the first place.

like every fundamentalist they end up contradicting themselves if they are let waffle on for long enough. The line about the banks still has me shaking my head in disbelief.

[goosebump]

I heard it too.

Couldn't believe it. Davison was woeful in general, and this is a constituency where they have seat.

Letting someone like this on Primetime National radio was a huge mistake for the Greens.

PK also questioned her on running for a council seat at the same time, so she probably won't get that now either.

On a very small number of occasions, there is such a thing as bad publicity, and this was one of them.

[goosebump]

Do you have the wording also where Brennan said NAMA was a success, Lee was about to hop in and PK grilled Brennan on it?

George was caught out too.

He claimed that it wasn't his intention to sell An Bord Gais immediately, while at the same time claiming that funds from the sale could be used to stimulate the economy.

[Kf]

I heard that, what a statment to make! The collective silence after it was said was priceless.

[mollds]

The only one who seemed to have properly though out policies was Alex White. He seemed to be very coherentand with it.

[manicstreetporter]

That was bad alright. Not anywhere as bad as the Brennan performance though. He hadn't a clue about NAMA - and seemed to think it was already working brilliantly. What a thick. I got the impression he was out of his depth and didn't want to be a FF candidate at all. I'd bet he was pushed into it. I almost felt sorry for him. But why should I? He's part of the problem.