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AIBU?

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Original poster

If you knew the Greens would win in your seat you'd vote for them

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SlothOnARope · 19/06/2024 11:07

In other words, people don't vote Green mainly because they think they have no chance.

Their manifesto on Education seems to correspond with a lot of views on mumsnet, aibu?

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bellinisurge · 20/06/2024 14:27

Their hearts aren't in the right place. As shown in Scotland.
More time spent getting autogynephiles into rape crisis centres than doing anything to help the climate crisis

DoreenonTill8 · 20/06/2024 10:07

But..but @missmousemouth they're being their true self?! We should embrace and celebrate their stunning bravery!

missmousemouth · 20/06/2024 09:45

I'm not exaggerating, nor do I have rose tinted specs. It's shit, and none of the other parties care. So voting for someone whose heart is firmly in the right place, even if her party leaders are weirdos and nonces.

She will still be expected to support all the green policies. Which means she might do some things you approve of, but she might also have to champion allowing men (who in your area might be violent knife carrying criminals with nefarious reasons for their actions) to be allowed to access women's changing rooms in sports centres or shops or if they declare at the entrance 'I am a women'. In fact, in Scotland, some of the individuals who fervently supported the Greens and actively campaigned for those rights, looked like knife carrying criminals to me (photos of themselves on social media posing with weapons). I'm not fine with any party that is fine with that sort of crap.

DoreenonTill8 · 20/06/2024 08:29

its shit, and none of the other parties care. So voting for someone whose heart is firmly in the right place, even if her party leaders are weirdos and nonces.
So you'd be happy with open paedophiles running the country? That's fucking terrifying.

DoreenonTill8 · 20/06/2024 08:23

MiddleAgedDread · 19/06/2024 11:29

This and their allegiance with the SNP means i'll never vote for them again

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Hell yes. Scottish Greens are vile, crazy fuckers, and all the support for 'Aimee' Chanellor and his father? Fuck off.
And Sturgeon with her support for 'Isla' Bryson? Fuck even further off!

Silviasilvertoes · 20/06/2024 08:15

Triestre · 19/06/2024 19:24

🙄why people do this is so childish

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So is climate change denial.

Godnotthisagain · 20/06/2024 01:14

No I wouldn't.

Some of their environmental policies almost sound reasonable but everything else is ridiculous and they couldn't run a bath let alone a country.

They perform an important role in politics as a pressure group, meaning the main parties have to take at least some notice of green issues but if they got anywhere near actual power they'd make Liz Truss look wise and successful. The Greens won control of Brighton and Hove local authority a few years back. Within months the LA was almost bankrupt, bins were left in the street uncollected as there was no money to pay the binmen and it got so bad that Westminster had to step in to take control to put the LA back on track. That would happen to the UK, without the safety net of having someone to save us when it all went to hell.

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SlothOnARope · 19/06/2024 19:39

Triestre · 19/06/2024 19:26

Where are you OP?

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A godforsaken shithole in the north west of England. Huge income disparity, footballer's row and SUVs shoulder to shoulder with drugs, monster dogs, drug drivers, balaclavas, kids getting robbed at knifepoint for their bikes, ASB and angry, unhealthy screwed-up people everywhere you look.

My kids can't go out at night and even in the daytime it's risky.

Corrupt council closing vital facilities. Class warfare. People seem to hate each other.

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EC22 · 19/06/2024 19:34

Absolutely not.
Theyre proper mental in Scotland.
Gender cranks and nothing more.

Triestre · 19/06/2024 19:32

stressedespresso · 19/06/2024 19:30

Well if the shoe fits.. sounds like Donald to me!

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Hardly the only person who thinks that. However, people do not say anything because of the gaslighting. They do not bother anymore.

Triestre · 19/06/2024 19:31

‘Exactly like my home town destroyed and bled dry by (mainly) Labour. It is now a fully-fledged crime ridden shithole I can't afford to move out of.’

Wales? Where? I am pretty sure we will see a massive corruption. It is always the same coin on a different side. I don’t have any hope.

AlmostThereMaybe · 19/06/2024 19:30

No.

stressedespresso · 19/06/2024 19:30

Triestre · 19/06/2024 19:24

🙄why people do this is so childish

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Well if the shoe fits.. sounds like Donald to me!

Triestre · 19/06/2024 19:26

SlothOnARope · 19/06/2024 13:48

By nature I am an idealistic optimist (read, idiot). The situation in my home town has taken that glass, poured out the contents and shattered it into pieces.

Voting for the status quo and expecting different makes me a complete fool.

Vote who, then. Literally nobody has a better suggestion, nobody.

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Where are you OP?

Triestre · 19/06/2024 19:24

Silviasilvertoes · 19/06/2024 11:50

Donald, is that you?

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🙄why people do this is so childish

MrsToothyBitch · 19/06/2024 18:13

I would never vote for them. Not as a woman. They hate us. And certainly not what after their performance in Scotland.

If my constituency elected a Green I'd sell up whilst my property was still worth something and whilst the area still looked presentable to sell.

Judellie · 19/06/2024 17:56

No. I have seen what they did to Scotland.

AlwaysCloudyAtNoon · 19/06/2024 17:50

PeonySeasons · 19/06/2024 11:35

Absolutely no chance.

Forcing women to go through vaginal birth by denying them a cesarean section is a weird platform for any party.

See also: men are not women and gaslighting us doesn't make it true.

And fantasy promises like 70% of all UK electricity to come from wind power by 2030 are just horseshit. Why lie?

This.

sundaysathome · 19/06/2024 17:45

Shade17 · 19/06/2024 11:26

Fuck no, tree-hugging twats.

this sums it up perfectly 🤣

Sparrow7 · 19/06/2024 17:43

Yes

RedToothBrush · 19/06/2024 17:41

I've read their manifesto.

They have a screw loose and are disconnected with reality.

I support green initiatives. The problem with the greens isn't their green initiatives.

SoEmbarrassed2024 · 19/06/2024 17:39

Absolutely not

Starchipenterprise · 19/06/2024 17:35

No they hate women. Their education plan is not to my liking. So no. We have a green MP near us. Won on a protest vote on a local Issue. Not a word from them since!!

mondaytosunday · 19/06/2024 17:31

I don't care if they were going to get 99% of the vote I wouldn't vote for them.

LakieLady · 19/06/2024 17:26

If they stood more chance of beating a Tory candidate than any other party*, yes.

I've been voting tactically for over 30 years. I'm a Labour party member living in a Lib/Con marginal seat, so the LDs always get my vote in general elections.

Most of my Labour supporting friends do the same here.

*except for Reform. I'd never vote for them.

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