You're too kind. It wasn't just brain freeze OR lack of preparation - it was mainly an unsuccessful attempt to get away with lying.
(Re Caroline Lucas, one of her election strategies will be to distance herself from the local party as much as possible. Sounds reasonable. Trouble is, it looks as...
The Quakers have an even better core ethos but they're not asking us if they can run the country. Nothing difficult about having lovely ideas that don't work.