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Webchat with Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, Weds March 4th, at 1pm

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JustineMumsnet · 03/03/2015 12:36

I'm very pleased to say that the leader of the Green Party England and Wales, Natalie Bennett, will be joining us for a webchat this Wednesday, March 4, at 1pm.

The Greens have been under the spotlight over the last few months, with a surge in membership, and controversy about whether they should be included in the pre-election TV debates.

Now's your chance to ask Natalie about leadership structures, the record of the Green council in Brighton and Hove and Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas, whether there's a long-term movement towards smaller parties in national politics, Green policies on housing, benefits, health, the economy and the environment - and what it's like to be at the eye of a media storm. Plus anything else that takes your fancy of course.

Natalie was born in Australia and worked as a journalist there and in Thailand before settling in the UK in 1999. She worked for The Guardian, among other UK newspapers, before becoming Green Party leader in 2012. She's standing for Parliament in the 2015 General Election in the constituency of Holborn and St Pancras.

Webchat with Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, Weds March 4th, at 1pm
ArcheryAnnie · 06/03/2015 12:25

Difference is, we get All Farage All The Time on the mainstream media!

(But bring him on, MN, and I shall be here.)

ArcheryAnnie · 06/03/2015 12:26

Ha, yes, AskBasil. Did you see Hugo Rifkind's reply to him on twitter, when George was recently trying to bait him about his dad? It was priceless.

pand0raslunchb0x · 06/03/2015 12:32

@Annie what we're the comments?

Thumbs up for getting Nigel Farage in the towers to do a Web chat too by the way!
The more questions asked the better in the run up to elections Smile

ArcheryAnnie · 06/03/2015 12:36

pand0ra George was baiting Hugo Rifkind after his dad - Malcolm Rifkind - had been in trouble over the recent cash-for-access sting.

This is how Hugo R answered:

twitter.com/hugorifkind/status/569854162135076864

AskBasil · 06/03/2015 14:17

LOL tht Rifkind thing is great.

He should have said it's just a breach of financial etiqette...

PlentyOfPubeGardens · 06/03/2015 19:51

Can we have that sad bloke on again? I think we quite liked him last time. What was his name? Nick something ...

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