I agree that the Green Party seems able to hide some ‘New Age’ ideas in it’s manifesto. This seems to me to be of interest to anyone that hasn’t given up on the idea of evidence based medicine:

http://tinyurl.com/nmclo6

I agree with John Q. Publican @ 23, by the way.

Er, please no?

Shatterface disagrees with me about most things, but can hold up a civilised debate, frequently knows his stuff, and is a fair commentator in that he’s prepared to accept a viable argument even if it doesn’t convince him. There’s others around who’re much less reasonable. Let’s keep the ones we can have a good argument with, yes?

Exactly – ‘no platform’ has given us a generation unable to counter their opponents with evidence and logic, and unwilling to look too closely at their own arguments.

I’ve seen the future and it looks like Sally.

What the fuck?

Can you justify either accusation or explain why I am such a threat to this site that I need to be banned?

The right have been exaggerating SUPPORT for the BNP, not their influence: they claim the BNP are addressing widely held concerns other parties are afraid to. It’s the Left which has exaggerated their INFLUENCE, hence their fear of granting them a ‘platform’.

Both sides are wrong. People are better than they think.

‘Any sane person could read what I meant from that.’

And I’ll let that slide, even though I have referred to my mental health on more than one occasion, because I have a thicker skin than most people here.

(I am also, as you’ll notice, an insomniac.)

Err no. You first twisted what I meant, and when I pointed that out, you’re now claiming I’ve come around to your point of view. As if there are only two points of view in this debate. My article this morning in fact says that right-wingers are exaggerating the influence of the BNP for political reasons. Any sane person could read what I meant from that.

Actually, their vote would fall. They’re popular because of their well known opposition to climate change but if people took a closer look at their preference for crank medicine over stem-cell research they wouldn’t get close to Parliament.

They get a soft ride because they are associated with one major issue and so to criticise them is to be accused of climate change denial.

Probably about a quarter as many votes.

Yeah, everyone who thinks you’re inconsistant hangs out together. Me and PT, we’re like this (crosses fingers).

Keep up the smears, I’m sure you are convincing everyone. Now go through my posts and find one where I agree with PragueTory, let alone where we gang up on you.

The fact that I made precisely the predictions the evidence now points to and now you’ve come round to my point of view should not trouble you.

I said it before and I’ll repeat it again. If the Green Party managed to total over a million votes in the midst of an almost total press blackout, god knows what they’d get with proper press coverage and tabloids echoing their policies the same way they do with UKIP and BNP.

Way to go with illiteracy and stupidity. Perhaps you should hang out with the likes of PragueTory more, who has similar problems understanding basic points.

The point is ‘astonishing’ to the extent how much right-wingers claim there is overwhelming support for UKIP / BNP etc on immigration policy and whatever else. I’m actually pointing out that Britons are not as reactionary as many right-wingers claim they are. I see such subtleties are beyond your grasp.

I doubt many people know what the Greens’ immigration policy is. Or most of their policies for that matter. I suspect the general perception is that they’re well-meaning lefties who want to cut pollution and improve public transport.

As someone who is sad enough to have read their entire long-term manifesto I’m probably in a minority of people who realise just how left-wing they are.

The supposed ‘surge’ of BNP support talked up by right-wing media is of course meant to be sarcastic.