Now with the SNP, Ukip and the Greens complicating the electoral issue, the task of regaining power is harder than ever.
As impressed as Hendricks was with the European roofingsystem, he saw some problems: Most green roofs require complicated layers of material spread out over the whole roof before the grass is planted.
A comparative evaluation of this effect between the red and green lineage is complicated by the interference with different extents of gene losses in both groups as well as the presence of distinct types of photosynthetic physiology in general.
There are also a number of three corner fights in our list, seats such as Watford, Hampstead and Kilburn, and Cambridge and Norwich South, where a surge in the Greens further complicates election campaigns in seats where the vote is already closely divided among all three parties.
But "the whole green philosophy is very complicated," he added, admitting that "the greenest thing to do is not to build a new house".
In the presence of asymmetry of information and unseen actions, it is in fact optimal to increase the reimbursement for the best-case scenario (green code patient, not complicated) and reduce the payment for the worst state (green code patient, complicated).
In contrast to the time-consuming chemical and physical methods which involve complicated procedures, green method is much easier and safer to use, and plant-mediated synthesis of nanoparticles is still a new scheme and the outcome is yet to be studied.
At the end of the day, he says, "I'm just a German with a green card in a complicated but fulfilling relationship with the US of A".
This is where the green-jobs dream gets complicated.
The Serbs have stalled, playing for time or one side off against the other, with Brussels warning them that a green light would complicate the EU negotiations.
