The Greens have a strong support base within social movements. Image: Flickr / Lee Nichols
A few weeks ago Natalie Bennett gave an excruciating interview on an LBC show. But however much it looked like the wheels were coming off the Greens’ carbon-neutral bus, that interview won her my vote. Because no matter how screwed up her numbers were, the commitment was there to build half a million new social homes. It was bold and visionary and also a desperate necessity. ‘How will you pay for it?’ asked a brace of commentators. As a first-time voter belonging to Generation Rent and watching thousands of people displaced from my city due to housing costs while millions languish on waiting lists, I was asking a different question. How will we pay for the alternative?
Housing is, perhaps, one of the main reasons I’m voting Green on Thursday.
