Greens growing
I am sorry to disappoint the fervent extreme right-wing supporters of UKIP who think their party is becoming the most popular, but the Green Party has now overtaken them in national membership figures. The Guardian (a Labour/Liberal paper) reports (16 January) that Greens have 44,713 members in the UK, Lib Dems 44,576 and UKIP 41,943.
These figures fly in the face of Ofcom and BBC’s prejudice in trying to make out that the Green Party is not a major party and is excluding them from the General Election leadership debates. If we pride ourselves on being a democratic country then the Green Party must have due recognition.
Bill Hughes Swindon Green Party
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