Britain’s Greens are on the brink of power – is their time here at last? Andy Beckett
Green politics in Britain has always had a problem with scale. The disparity between the damage being done to the planet and the forces mobilised against that, in electoral politics and on the streets, has so far been painfully stark.
The first British Green party (originally called the People party) was founded in the early 1970s, when anxiety about the environment was almost as widespread as it is now. Yet it took another 37 years, until 2010, for Britain
