Last night on the week in politics, Mary White, deputy leader of the Green Party, was talking about how they had, in a Sunday Business Post poll, gained 2%. They now have 5%. Amazing, considering what a pack of feckless cretins they are.

Still, Mary White knows how important the Greens are. Mary White is under no illusions as to the job they have to do. Mary White is not one for specious, trite comparisons. Mary White wants to set the people free. Mary White is the Green Queen of Emancipation. Oh yes.

Last night on The Week in Politics, she said:

“I was reading the life of Lincoln recently and he was prepared to lose half the United States to do the right thing for his country by abolishing slavery.

We’re going to do the right thing by our country by making sure we can come out of recession”.

The Deputy Leader of the Green Party said this, last night, on national television … with a straight face. I wonder how much of Ireland the Green Party are willing to sacrifice to do what they consider to be the right thing for ‘our country’.

Because making some budget cuts and tax increases to undo the mess you have made in government (and it’s funny how much the Greens try and distance themselves from any culpability by using the ‘it was like that when we got here’ card) is just like Abraham Lincoln abolishing slavery.

As she pointed out last night 84% of the Green members supported the party continuing in government, despite the huge public objection to NAMA, so perhaps that’s how much of the country they are willing to lose to ‘do the right thing’. Oppose NAMA? The Greens are prepared to lose you, because what you think doesn’t matter, your objections are irrelevant, because the most important thing is that the Greens get to implement their policies.

And as soon as anyone figures out exactly what their policies are I’ll let you know.

Now, I’m off to round up my slaves to make sure Mary White doesn’t set them free.