The biggest "surprise" in the NSW election yesterday was the failure of the Greens. Despite people wanting to punish Labor for their abysmal performance in government, most preferred to go Liberal than Green. This is despite the fact that the media often treat them as the true opposition party, believing their self-promotion.

Andrew Bolt writes:

The Greens have failed again. And that failure seems now irreversible.

Consider: this is a party with everything going its way. It has incredible support from people in the media and entertainment industry. Schools for years have indoctrinated students – the young generation of voters – in its green values. Many institutions and members of the teacher-preacher class now promote its green values on global warming, Aboriginal “reconciliation” and boat people. In NSW, yesterday’s state election even coincided with Earth Hour, the holiest day of the Greens’ calender.

Yet:

The Greens bid to make history by claiming its first seat in the NSW lower house has faltered, with Marrickville likely to remain with Labor and Balmain too close to call.

The swing to the Greens, even when Labor voters deserted their party in their hundreds of thousands, was just 1 per cent. This is a humiliation for the Greens and Bob Brown.

And it caps a series of disastrous results at what should be the Greens’ finest hour.

In the Victorian election last year, the Greens failed to win a single seat in the Lower House, despite boasting they could pick up four. In the federal election, with Labor again on the nose, the Greens picked up just one of the 150 seats in the House of the Representatives – and that through a preference decision by the Liberals in Melbourne that the party is unlikely to repeat.

Let us compare. Even Pauline Hanson, with all the media’s vilification, managed to win not only a lower house seat in federal parliament, but 11 seats in Queensland’s Parliament in 1998. The Greens have never come close anywhere to matching that success in any lower house in any Australian parliament.

The Greens have flopped again. Let’s see if the media coverage reflects this.