7/24/2009

Greens split on Norfolk County Council ?

One of the area committees on Norfolk County Council threw up an interesting insight in to Green politics in Norwich.

After discussion with the two Labour County councillors and the two Lib Dem county councillors in the Norwich area, it was agreed that the Green Party group leader (Boswell) would chair the committee and that Lib Dem and Labour would rotate vice chairmanship. So what happened at the meeting ? Lib Dems and Labour support their Green Group Leader but the rest of the Green group vote against their leader and put someone else in as chairman.

Questions about arses and elbows might apply, but it tells us something of the internal problems the Greens are having with strong rumours also circulating about relationships between senior Greens in Norwich appearing to be somewhat strained.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

i guess the result today will add to their problems!

Matt Sellwood said...

Yeah - the best ever Parliamentary by election for the Party, representing a trebling of our vote. We'll be weeping into our beer....

Anonymous said...

But Matt you were claiming you could win, the media were saying you'd beat the Liberals;and you come 5th behind UKIP. I note on ConHome they are saying talk up the Greens, vote Green get Blue!

Anonymous said...

I heard that none of the Greens would even second Boswell's nomination for the Chair, and that the silence that followed was so painfully long that another party had to second it so that the meeting could continue!

Anonymous said...

The Greens dont even run a whelk stall - but we can see they fall apart when decisions have to be made.

Anonymous said...

But Matt look where the Greens started from - the number of Councillors - Euro result - the hype by the Greens & the media.
Once again the Green vote has peaked as it did in '89 & dying off just as quickly.Of course you are going to pick up odd Council seats here & there - even the English Democrats & continuing Liberal Party ( & SDP for that matter) appear to do that!

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