Little John wrote:Yes, but the point is this credibility will not last with ordinary working class voters as their lives get harder.
Yeah, but hardly any of the working class vote green anyway. They are more likely to vote Labour, SNP or UKIP.
At some point in the not too distant future, any party still putting out a message of lax border controls/unlimited immigration will be finished.
Yes, and we're seeing the last serious resistance to this reality crumbling in Germany right now. Angela Merkel is losing the argument, and once it is lost in Germany then it is effectively lost all over Europe. Questions like "should we let them in?" or "how many should we let in?" are going to be replaced with "how best can we ensure they are kept out?".
The real problem, at least from my point of view, is how on earth the Green Movement is supposed to gain any traction while idiots like Biff Vernon continue to make it look ridiculously detached from reality.
But I'm preaching to the converted here...
The left have got to get their shit together on this...
Yep.
Although I have a creeping suspicion that the UK will vote to leave the EU in the referendum, and the consequences for the whole of British and European politics might be quite profound. I think it is very hard to predict what might happen.