Eat Your Greens!
If you want to be big and strong - if you don't, you might end up like me or Steven Agnew!
At a Green Party news conference in Stormont today there was some debate amongst the camera operators as to whether the newly elected leader Steven Agnew should stand or sit - which led a non-politically correct wag to quip "oh I thought you were standing".
Now as Political Editor I have to maintain complete impartiality. But as a pocket sized correspondent I'm on the barricades together with the new Green leader against this blatant height-ism.
Steven and I have resolved to form a new alliance for vertically challenged political anoraks at Stormont. We shall refuse any complimentary tickets we are offered to the all Ireland basketball final, and boycott any concerts by
The former Green Euro candidate beat Cadogan Enright by 72% to 28% (eerily exactly the same ratio as that given by NI water for leaks on private property and leaks on their system).
Now Mr Agnew faces a challenge, not just from the heightists, but from voters who may have started to take the Green message for granted. He told us that after deriding the Greens as sandal wearing hippies, Sammy Wilson has now stolen their policies on the Green New Deal.
Still 2011 could be a difficult time for the Greens in Ireland - in the south they will be lucky to save any of their Dail seats as the public punish those involved in the current coalition. In the north, Steven Agnew may face a little local difficulty in North Down with the Wilson conundrum previously referred to on this blog.
If you are wondering how come the Greens have a leader either side of the border, the party says they haven't broken away - Mr Agnew will be a regional leader, but John Gormley will still be the leader across the island. Which is as it should be, I suppose, as Mr Gormley is taller.
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