Owen Jones, via The Guardian>>> The media treatment of the Greens is beginning to look painfully absurd. They had an elected MP years before Ukip appropriated Douglas Carswell from the Tory backbenches; they run a council; they’ve long boasted a presence in the European parliament. And yet the likes of the BBC all too often prefer to act as Ukip’s unofficial campaign team. Remarkable, perhaps, that the Greens are doing quite so well given the relative dearth of airtime. A rich ex-Tory, ex-City type peddling Thatcherite economics wrapped in a rich coating of divide-and-rule xenophobia? You might as well hire a TV agent. Proffering a living wage, taxes on the booming wealthy, and solutions to the looming environmental calamity that create jobs? Don’t waste the afternoon expecting a TV producer to call. “Enormous frustration and anger” is how Lucas sums up party feelings about media treatment. An increasingly common view, it seems: the BBC’s refusal to include the party in the 2015 general election leaders’ debate has provoked nearly 200,000 people to sign a petition urging a U-turn, and 47% of Britons support such a move. The Greens’ ceiling of support is potentially high indeed: according to Ipsos Mori, 43% of Britons would consider voting for them, nine percentage points above Ukip and only one less than the Tories. theguardian/commentisfree/2014/nov/02/greens-are-surging-denied-coverage-ukip-obsessing-media
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