Green Surge

The Green Party is growing at a phenomenal rate while UKIP's popularity looks set to peak very soon. By the general election we should be easily the third largest party in England & Wales! And yet we are still excluded from the leaders' television debates. Sometimes it seems as if the BBC is the official UKIP broadcasting service!

As the New Statesman puts it:

"(Green Party) membership could soon exceed that of Ukip. The latest figures, compiled by Adam Ramsay of OurKingdom, put the Greens' total membership at 40,879, just 635 behind Ukip (whom the broadcasters have, of course, invited to the debates). He calculates that "at the current rate of growth, the Greens will overtake Ukip within a week, and be ahead of the Lib Dems before polling day ".

The party's membership has more than doubled since September when it stood at 20,000. By contrast, Ukip's growth rate has slowed, with the party gaining just 2,514 members since June. The most recent figure for the Lib Dems puts membership at 44,576, a year-on-year rise but still well down on its 2010 level of 65,038."

Of course, as everyone knows now, we're already ahead of the Lib Dems. 

People are starting to wake up!