Greens did not listen to their supporters!

[Supermanpolitician]

Having been there in 2002 (ie had a terrible election result) it is very un gentlemanly to gloat. So I won't. Fair play to all in the GP who put up a good fight and walked the walk.

But here is where a few of us just have to speak up. Many posters here, and not just FG and Labour ones, tried to warn the GP that not listening to people would be their undoing.

By contrast People Before Profit, by all measures an even crazier group, did listen to the fringe voters and picked up their votes.

The Greens will be back in the long run, and it is good that they made everybody more conscious of environmental issues. But saying one thing and doing another will always trip you up.

[yehbut_nobut]

I agree- started a similar thread here - perhaps a merge is in order?

[Tiernanator]

I think you are right on this supermanpolitician. I feel things may change very soon because Green party members will be very angry and demand to be heard. Hopefully we will have a GE soon.

[Gimpanzee]

Tick, tock.....

Niall O'B has just said that the revised program for government will be put to their supporters - two minutes after asking FG and Labour for a liferaft!

[badboy2]

Its car crash TV watching the government shudder on TV

[cactusflower]

Many of us warned them over the last year.

[EoinMn]

I agree,
we disagreed with our supporters.We tried to lead rather than follow. Tried to implement the agenda we stood for even if it meant doing an unpopular deal with FF.
We didn't listen to thr electorate the way the populist gob********************es in FF and FG did by promising the impossible. We were not and will never be populist.

[Gimpanzee]

I agree,
we disagreed with our supporters.We tried to lead rather than follow. Tried to implement the agenda we stood for even if it meant doing an unpopular deal with FF.
We didn't listen to thr electorate the way the populist gob********************es in FF and FG did by promising the impossible. We were not and will never be populist.

In fairness, the Green Party do promise the impossible - environmental miracles, energy independence, fancy mass transport systems. All noble, but overlaying those on modern Ireland is the problem. Its just the promises they hold out to their prospective voters are different.

[JCSkinner]

Greens didn't listen to their own members and elected representatives.
As McKenna said tonight, the leadership were too hungry for power and have set their party back a generation.

[Geoffrey]

For a political party to work properly the members have to put their trust in the senior members of the party. John Gormley is an exceptional leader and he has the support of the right thinking members of the party.. Every party has a clique of troublemakers, the Green Party is no exception. I can understand why there are haters coming out of the woodwork, they can't see the bigger picture.