Eamon ryan was elected leader of the green party on the 27 May 2011, succeeding John Gormley. The competition was from Malcom Noonan and Phil Kearney. To be honest Malcom should have got the job as Eamon Ryan was a member of the last government in which the greens played their part for the crippling debt of this country, only under severe pressure did they call a halt to their time in government. They then got rightly hammered in the election and lost all seats.
The green party days are numbered within government for a very long time. Eamon ryan talked about rebuilding trust. It will take me a very long time to trust the green party, if ever!
You trust Fine Gael, Labour, Fianna Fail more that the Greens? The other parties have been running local and national government of this country for the long term. If we had Green policy where government appointments were made to qualified people and not to friends we would have been better off in banking regulation and other areas.
From listening closely to politicians the Greens and especially Eamon Ryan are the most honest. They always explained what they were doing. They had to go into government to show they were not irrelevant as they were always dismissed as before. They didn’t go out of government earlier where they might have gotten some credit for it but when it might have made the situation worse.
Unfortunately being honest doesn’t look or sound as good on media as is finding the latest most popular ideas and expounding on them dramatically.
Other parties and independants pick up green issues because they’re fashionable and think they’ll get votes for it (and they do!). It’s okay seeing good policy picked up but cringe factor is a bit too high at times when it is being implemented by eejits who have latched onto green fashion but not principles. :-7
Thanks for your comment, It doesn’t matter if they are the ‘most’ honest, the facts speak for themselves. The green party had ample opportunity to pull out of government and to put a stop to the blanket guarantee and the bank bail out. Since I was 18 years old I voted for the green party until the last election. I voted labor and socialist party not because it think they are any better, Politics is Politics and its just one big game, things change really slow. depending on the local green party member, it will dictate if I vote for a green again.