Leaders – a hindrance or a help?

With tonight’s late news leading on the ongoing speculation about Ming Campbell’s leadership of the Liberal Democrats and tomorrow’s Guardian splashing on news about Cameron’s failing leadership, why are the Greens even considering joining this media madness involving personality politics?

Without a traditional leader figure the Greens manage to avoid this ridiculous speculation about leadership which continues to plague the three ‘grey’ parties and which, I believe, turns off voters.

As a radical party, the Greens have a real opportunity to cut across this nonsense by offering an alternative vision for leadership and focusing on the pressing issues facing us all.

That’s enough for now about leadership in this diary but I leave it with two thoughts.

The first is from a reader’s comment in response to Sian Berry’s blog on the New Statesman website (http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/sian-berry): “True leaders do not need the title!”

The second is from my partner who reminded me last night that when the current leadership debate arose in the Green Party earlier this year my first reaction was: ‘Why waste time on that when the world continues to fry?”