Greens ‘crisitunity’ could prove their downfall

SINCE the emperor bought new clothes, few have been so stark in their political self-delusion as the Green Party this week in their insistence that the relevance of their agenda, to save the world, will help save them from their near brush with death in last week’s elections.

“We will survive. We’re a party that is based on an idea and you can’t kill an idea,” party leader, John Gormley said on Monday morning when he woke up having lost all but three of the party’s 18 councillors.

“We are part of an international movement that is going to define the politics of this century,” said their other cabinet minister, Eamon Ryan, despite both Green councillors losing their seats in his local South Dublin County Council.