Greens 4% behind Lib Dems in poll

Peter Cranie has highlighted the latest IPSOS-MORI poll which shows the Green Party on 6% nationally, with the Liberal Democrats at just 10%:

Labour 42%
Tories 35%
Lib Dems 10%
Greens 6%
SNP/PC 4%
UKIP 2%
BNP 1%

Firstly, I'm puzzled by the amount of coverage UKIP seemed to get for obtaining control of their first parish council just after the local elections. The national media almost ignored the fact that the Green Party is now the largest party on Brighton City Council. We have well over 100 councillors and are polling three times as well as UKIP yet Nigel Farage and his parish council seem to be in the spotlight three times as much. Odd.

As the Lib Dems seem to sink lower and lower into the depths of despair in the polls the Green Party are starting to lap them as they limp onto the home straight after the general and local elections. It won't be long before the percentage points are reversed and the Green Party will be on double figures with the Lib Dems struggling to retain any dignity left.

Meanwhile, Lib Dem MP Simon Hughes sent an hilarious email round to Lib Dem members in truly celebratory mood, guaranteed to get the recently bereft ex-Lib Dem councillors dancing for joy I'm sure. Writing for Lib Dem Voice on Thursday, Chris White attacked Simon Hughes and seemed to think we don't have much support:

"Meanwhile the public did not, except in isolated cases, give much support to the Greens. They rarely do, preferring an Augustinian ‘Lord make me virtuous but not yet’ approach, while hacking down trees because they ‘block out the light’. The Green Investment Bank, bluntly, is not going to float their globally warmed boat."

That's a nice thing to say about the electorate isn't it? Patronising really, especially after speaking to so many people who have been extremely interested in my local party considering it's so small at the moment.

But then, when you're on 10% and the party you're used to being out in the sticks starts to catch you up I suppose it can tempt you to be a little nasty...