These are my own thoughts about the recent General and Local elections in Bath.
The Green Party literature in Bath had a mythical tone to it with them telling residents that they were going to win in Bath and showing graphs how they were going to beat the Lib Dems hands down, in reality it did not happen and fell a long way short.
The The Green Party vote in Bath rose at both local elections and General elections with almost all of their extra votes coming from the Liberal Democrats.
In Fact the Greens did very well capturing a seat in Lambridge Ward where their candidate worked very hard, they also had a surprise win in Abbey Ward in the City centre.
The Green Party PPC was very vocal on social media getting to lots of debates with political hacks of all persuasions and making a lot of noise about local issues.
What was he Green Party ambition in Bath well only they will really be able answer that one, but from my own view it seems that they achieved it making a breakthrough in the City and increasing their share of the Vote.
On the issue of the General election its is very evidential that those former Liberal Democrat voters who voted Green at the General election succeeded in electing a Conservative MP and I can not believe that is what they wanted.
The acid test for the Greens will be in 2019 when they have to defend their seats without a protest vote against the Lib Dems and this may be a much harder task for them, and then in 2020 General election.
Next Saturday UKIP
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