Over the next few posts I’ll look closely at the Greens’ election result, questions about the party’s relatively poor performance, and calls for the Greens to shift to the centre (or that there should be a blue-green party).
One of the big surprises of the election was the fall in Green votes. Despite polling strongly prior to the election, the Greens received only 10.02%. Of course, Labour’s abysmal failure stole the limelight, but the decrease itself is interesting.
There has been a bit of speculation about the drop, but until there is better data available there is no way of knowing the reason for sure. While speculation is interesting, it is not that illuminating. As Nate Silver famously stated, ‘punditry is fundamentally useless’. Of course, if being fundamentally useless stopped bloggers, we wouldn’t have Bomber Bradbury. So prepare for punditry.
My view is that some of the…
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