And now youve decided to walk away. Why . Because i want, ironically, to spend more time really focusing on climate and the environment. And right now, as the sole mp for my party, i have to be the expert on absolutely everything. I am the front bench spokesperson on everything. And that means that when you add that to two days a week constituency work easily, looking at everything from peoples visas to their housing problems, important though those are, they are massively time consuming at a time when im now at The Point In My Life when i really want to focus on climate and nature. Two huge areas, i know, but at the minute im getting pulled in 100 Different Directions, so ive decided not to stand at the next election. Im very hopeful that an excellent green candidate, sian berry, will take overfrom me in brighton. Weve got some other target seats in Bristol Central and suffolk as well, waveney valley. So were hopeful of getting more greens at the next election. But right now, this is
because any live witness is very powerful. the ones we already had were very powerful. but were they to get people like mulvaney and bolton, those could provide very blatant and damaging evidence to them, and that, i think, could raise some peril for him even in this sort of bedrock support he has with republican senators. the second aspect of it is that same peril goes to his political liabilities which it really places in the eyes of the american public and the voting public just exactly what he was doing wrong, and that is certainly going to hurt him in the elections and that probably is the bigger peril that he faces as well as the fallout for the republican senators. if they are confronted with this kind of blatant evidence of his wrongdoing, and yet there s still a monolithic block, it raises questions of what they re doing. that would be one of the reasons he would not want
there is no denying this. the party has moved clearly to the left. it is much more of a bernie sanders flavored party, than it is a clinton dlc party. there is no question about that. he could declare victory tomorrow in terms of the war of ideas. the other idea, what his advisers make a strong case is that, look, yes, bernie may not be as strong as he was in 2016, but because the race is going to be different this time around, you don t need 50.1% to win the democratic nomination in 2020. this field will be so fractured and this race will be so up in the air that you can win with the plurality. because bernie does have bedrock support, he should give it a go because you put together a coalition when you are running in a 17 person field and you have got a 50 state organization, rather, and you can sort of get a political