God spare us from the Green Party

IF EVER THERE WERE  an argument against lowering the voting age to 16, we heard it yesterday in a studio at LBC radio, when the leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett, was interviewed by LBC's  Nick Ferrari. The interview has been played over and over again in the last 24 hours throughout the media, and each time I heard it, I had less sympathy for Ms Bennett's predicament.

               

                Nick Ferrari should win an award for the way he handled the interview. There is now another star to be added to the political interview firmament, among whom sits the likes of Paxman, Humphreys, and Neil.

                

                 Ferrari did not press Ms Bennett as the before mentioned triumphret would have done; all he had to do was to give the leader of the Green Party enough rope to hang herself, which she obligingly did. Ferrari was politeness exemplified -  even expressing his sympathy for her as she announced, after several skids before the final crash, that she was suffering from a cold which she made her mind blank.

                

                 Ferrari knew that the Green Party prospectus was almost imbecilic in its naivety (which is why all 16 year-olds should be kept well away from the ballot box until they turn 18). He confronted her with a few gently delivered questions such as how she proposed to find the cash to build 500,000 new homes – she was clueless. She remained clueless throughout the interview. Her performance even surpassed the one she gave Andrew Neil on the BBC's Politics on Sunday earlier.

              

               If the Green party wishes to sell its bizarre agenda to the British public - an agenda that includes not only building half a million homes without knowing where the money is to come from to pay for them as Ms Bennett, by her various silences seemed to acknowledge in her LBC interview – which, as part of the Green perspective, also includes doing away with our nation's defences, and allowing all and sundry, without restriction, to come freely to live among us from whatever portion of the world they chose to travel, without any kind of government obstacle.

                

               Everything the Green's produce in terms of policies are, I was about to write 'ill-thought through'. But this would have implied acknowledging an intellectual element resulting in a miscalculation that any party could and often does make. Intellectual miscalculation means using the intellect and getting it wrong, which is forgivable. But the Greens do not seem to apply reason to their policies, only un-costed idealism, which attracts the young to their breast.

THE GREENS should not serve as a utopian dream, but a dystopian warning. The Green party attracts those jejune among us of all ages with our simplicity of nature -  but in particular our youth. To our youth the Green's idea of ridding the nation of its armed forces, is, idealistically speaking, the way to bring peace and love into the world.

                

                The wide-eyed and credulous young to whom simplistic and idealistic solutions are part of their teenage make-up, who will readily fall into line with the Green agenda, should all be kept well away of voting until they receive a more mature understanding, based upon age and experience.

                

                 Natalie Bennett's  display was truly awful. She deserved the fate she received. She represented a party  of wide-eyed anti-intellectual but idealistic none-entities, who themselves enthusiast as dreamer visionaries who see their Green agenda as the only hope for mankind.

                

                 The Greens will only be taken seriously, God forbid, if they stood any chance of fooling enough of the electorate to win power.

NATALIE BENNETT'S ignominious performance, if it had been reproduced by the leaders of any of the three major UK political parties; would have certainly resulted in a busily attempt at creating a new party leader before next May's general election.

                

                The Greens stand for a dystopian world they would like to see become real – just as the Marxists in the 1960s/70's would have liked to have seen the imprint of a Communist dystopia on every aspect of the lives of UK citizens . The Greens are no better than the Marxists. The Marxists did not believe in the capitalist free market – and neither do the Greens.

              

                The Greens are almost pathetic in their naivety toward the need to abandon economic growth under capitalism only to replace it with what? Medieval forms of bartering? As for the youth, particularly the student youth, who share the Greens same kind of dim-witlessness, they are now being considered to be allowed the vote at 16 if Labour wins this May.

               

                 Ms Bennett did, rather ignominiously it must be said, do the country a favour by her curdled delivery and almost dementia-like ignorance of detail regarding her party's manifesto during her self-inflicted LBC water-boarding. Maybe, just maybe, the Greens will once more sink into the background, and remain there, until another generation  of 1960's ancestral hippydom comes once more to the for.