Radical Candour

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Green Party leader Eamon Ryan (front row third left) and deputy leader Catherine Martin (bright green coat) canvassing with party members at the Dropping Well, Dublin last January

This afternoon.

What now?

Via RTÉ:

All three parties will hold a postal vote because of the Covid-19 restrictions. And while all three have a hard sell to secure membership approval, it is widely expected that the Green Party faces the toughest challenge to get backing for entering government.

Primarily, that is because of the high bar set by its rules, which demand a 66% endorsement from members entitled to vote….

…There are currently around 3,000 members and around 2,200 will definitely have a vote, with another 300 to 400 possibly entitled to complete a ballot.

This influx of new members has made it difficult to read the mood of the electorate, according to insiders.

Former party general secretary Stiofán Nutty said the new intake has mixed views, with some new members particularly radical.

Gulp.

Selling the deal: Party memberships have final say on government (RTÉ)

Earlier: Me First

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10 thoughts on “Radical Candour

    1. Cú Chulainn

      I’d say Eamo will personally check each ballot to ensure the yes vote hits 70%

  1. fluffybiscuits

    Radical green party members?
    Whats a radical green? Grow parsley in two window boxes? Stand on a milk crate and say climate change is real to passers by?

    Sniggering lol

  2. Southsider

    The world’s most advanced AI name generator could not have come up with a better name for the party general secretary of the Green party than Stiofán Nutty. The icing on the cake was that when I googled his Eircode on his lobbyist page, he lives in … wait for it, Nutstown just west of The Naul, Co Dublin.

    You could not make the Green Party up. They are too perfect.

    https://www.lobbying.ie/organisation/91/stiof%C3%A1n-nutty?currentPage=0&pageSize=10&queryText=&subjectMatters=&subjectMatterAreas=&period=&returnDateFrom=&returnDateTo=&lobbyistId=91&dpo=&publicBodys=&jobTitles=&client=

    1. Rob_G

      I mean, get the joke, but it’s a bit weird publishing his home address, even if he is a lobbyist

      1. Southsider

        I guess most lobbyists would put a work address in that box, it is very odd that he put his home address in there. Even more nuts.

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