Green Party aiming to "do a UKIP"

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24068318

Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has predicted a "big shift" from the three main parties to the Greens and UKIP. Although the two parties are poles apart on policy, voters are increasingly looking for "new answers," Ms Bennett told the BBC.

The party is training activists at its annual conference in Brighton how to emulate UKIP's recent success.

Members will also debate policies on cutting energy prices and opposing NHS and Royal Mail privatisation. The party wants to ban all advertising aimed at children and plans to set out proposals to boost the economy and end food poverty.

The conference is due to open later and ends on Monday. On Saturday, members will discuss how it can "break into mass popular awareness" in the way that Nigel Farage's UK Independence Party managed in May's local elections, when it gained 139 councillors.

[non sociopath skin]

1. So I guess they're looking for a chain-smoking, beer-swilling xenophobe ...

... with the rictus grin of the compulsive onanist and a grating stentorian Home Counties voice as front man.

Good luck with that one, Comrades.



The Skin

[Starboard Tack]

2. Most eloquently put, I must say.

Hopefully, they'll have a little more integrity.