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Green Party Mayoral Candidate
How would you rate your performance on last night's (10th March) Newsnight programme, and were you happy with the way that Jeremy Paxman handled the subject?
Answered by Siân Berry
It was a very strange ‘debate’ which I don’t think Jeremy Paxman handled very well at all. Beforehand, we saw Tim Yeo (Tory head of the Environmental Audit Committee in Parliament) talking about ‘personal... Show more »It was a very strange ‘debate’ which I don’t think Jeremy Paxman handled very well at all. Beforehand, we saw Tim Yeo (Tory head of the Environmental Audit Committee in Parliament) talking about ‘personal carbon quotas’, which are a Green Party policy we believe are the only way to tackle climate change in a socially just way. But then later, when I mentioned this policy in the debate, Paxman reacted like I’d suggested flying all our carbon emissions to the moon. Very odd, and Ken Clarke and Stephen Hale weren’t much help in keeping the debate to the subject in hand either. I thought I said only coherent and sensible things, but the debate as a whole was a bit of a shambles to be honest.
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