In reply to Stichtplate:
> If her principles meant she risked impoverishment, inprisonment, injury or death then of course you'd be certain she was genuine.my point was simply that this is how she makes her living.Right-on bullshit might be overstating it , but only a little. I've read your stuff, your a sensible bloke, I defy you to read through their manifesto without more than the occasional wince.
We all have to make a living in the end. I'll always remember Caroline Lucas looking really pissed off on Question Time when talking about people who fly to New York and back in a day on Concorde for a meeting, think it was before 9/11, she was asking who was so important that the needed to do that.
She's one of the few politicians I've known to seem to get genuinely pissed off when talking about the things which matter to her. Tony Blair was good at appearing earnest, but I don't know how easy it is to fake being pissed off in the way Caroline Lucas sometimes is.
She 'feels principled' somehow, and has been consistent through her career.
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