Green shoots Don't mention the Thing.Or the other Thing

I'm not saying that going to Bristol for 15 minutes was the least green thing I've done all year, but it may make the top 10.

- Marina Hyde

I'm very sorry. I didn't even manage to plant a question as offset.

Anyway, the launch featured some of the things you might expect - knitted green rosettes, a lot of jolly good points about sewage and some you might not. All the many VOTE GREEN signs were plastic (maybe they don't count as single use) while the lecterns lit up (energy efficient bulbs, perhaps). Incidentally, you need two lecterns at all Green events because the party has joint leaders - Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay. This is the third time they've had a woman and a man co-leading; the Greens are much like the breakfast TV sofa in that respect, although I don't think they secretly loathe each other like they do in the various morning studio snakepits. Or indeed the various other political parties.

In fact, everyone here seemed to get on very well (I even watched their rehearsal), though it must be said they all appeared to be from one wing of what euphemism demands we style as the Greens' "broad church". Denyer finished the stereo-leader speech by declaring their major priorities were "the NHS, housing, climate and nature, public services, and the quality of our water". Which was confusing because three minutes later we were filing out and activists were being given great boxes of campaign material to distribute, all containing a leaflet emblazoned with the Palestinian flag and the words: "AN IMPORTANT LETTER TO BRISTOL ON GAZA."