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Original poster

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

210 replies

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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DowntonCrabby · 19/06/2024 11:48

I have but never will again.

Silviasilvertoes · 19/06/2024 11:47

I’d love to, we need an environmentally sound party. It’s just such a pity that they spout such toxic rubbish on gender. I could never vote for them.

bellinisurge · 19/06/2024 11:47

OP, all parties have abandoned women.

The ones who pay lip service to protecting women's rights are doing it as a wedge issue so that you will ignore the batshit stuff they spout.

Fuck. All. Of. Them.

I may write this on my spoiled ballot instead of
"Don't expect my X if you don't respect my sex"

User2460177 · 19/06/2024 11:47

Absolutely no chance. I live in Scotland and the greens are incompetent, misogynist, antisemitic lunatics. They deny science (CASS report) and are disinterested in the environment.

stressedespresso · 19/06/2024 11:47

SlothOnARope · 19/06/2024 11:42

This is all really depressing and doesn't at all fit the description of my local candidate, who is really excellent on local issues and that is what matters to me.

Just reinforces my belief that voting needs to be about policies, not parties and identities, and that this current system we have is absolutely hopeless.

I'll be meeting my local group tomorrow, if they are as batshit as everyone suggests then I really want to just go and live in a cave somewhere.

My local candidate is wonderful - I know her on both a personal & professional level and she is truly passionate about our constituency. I am afraid though that I simply cannot bring myself to vote for such a batshit party. Their recent election ‘campaign’ (if you could even call it that as it’s been so ridiculous) has put the nail in the coffin for me

FranticHare · 19/06/2024 11:46

Nope. Not a chance

Shame really. A party focussed on the environment should be of real interest - but they are total bat shit. I thought at one point they might implode - but sadly not yet.

Elphame · 19/06/2024 11:46

Absolutely not.

They'd make a worse mess of the economy in less time than it took Liz Truss

PleaseletitbeSpring · 19/06/2024 11:46

I went to see my Green candidate speak. He was very articulate but spouted a load of nonsense and definitely didn't know what is happening locally, even though he lives in the constituency. He was practically sobbing over no new builds having air source heat pumps even though a 400 home estate is currently being built with exactly that.

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SlothOnARope · 19/06/2024 11:45

Artesia · 19/06/2024 11:44

But the responses on here largely are about policies. They are crap.

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Why is investing in education, abolishing Ofsted and abolishing tuition fees crap?

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Kitkat1523 · 19/06/2024 11:45

No I wouldnt

VickyEadieofThigh · 19/06/2024 11:45

I gather the Greens have hastily backtracked on their awful C-section policy - but for me, it's symptomatic of quite how Gileadish their overall views on women are.

Wouldn't vote for them with a gun to my head, to utilise my brother's comment about the Tories.

Artesia · 19/06/2024 11:44

SlothOnARope · 19/06/2024 11:42

This is all really depressing and doesn't at all fit the description of my local candidate, who is really excellent on local issues and that is what matters to me.

Just reinforces my belief that voting needs to be about policies, not parties and identities, and that this current system we have is absolutely hopeless.

I'll be meeting my local group tomorrow, if they are as batshit as everyone suggests then I really want to just go and live in a cave somewhere.

But the responses on here largely are about policies. They are crap.

BaronessEllarawrosaurus · 19/06/2024 11:44

No chance, not happening, no way

Chrysanthemum5 · 19/06/2024 11:42

No because I'm Scottish so I've had the experience of them being in a position of power and their incompetence is astonishing - they are even more useless and driven by zealotry than the SNP.

Anyone who looks at what they've done to Scotland and still votes for them needs their head examined

usernother · 19/06/2024 11:42

Ha ha! No, I wouldn't vote for them.

Original poster
SlothOnARope · 19/06/2024 11:42

This is all really depressing and doesn't at all fit the description of my local candidate, who is really excellent on local issues and that is what matters to me.

Just reinforces my belief that voting needs to be about policies, not parties and identities, and that this current system we have is absolutely hopeless.

I'll be meeting my local group tomorrow, if they are as batshit as everyone suggests then I really want to just go and live in a cave somewhere.

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LittleLegsKeepGoing · 19/06/2024 11:40

YABU - the Green Party have consistently produced manifestos that show quite clearly what they think of people women like me. Maybe if the local candidate was a local force to be reckoned with (we have quite a few high profile environmental things going on locally) I might re-think...but even with a perfect photo op, let alone chance to try and change things for the better the Green candidate is nowhere to be seen or heard of. Actions speak louder than words!

TuesdayWhistler · 19/06/2024 11:40

I would drill holes in my head before I voted for the greens.

PuffyFluffin · 19/06/2024 11:39

Never in a million years!

Not only do they hate women, they are utterly incapable of understanding life outside of large cities, and seems to think that their plans for cities would work everywhere. Bloody clueless!

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 19/06/2024 11:39

The Scottish Greens are a bunch of dangerous loonie zealots.

So no.

ThisNaiceLemonSloth · 19/06/2024 11:39

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camperjam · 19/06/2024 11:38

Nope, not a chance

Naunet · 19/06/2024 11:37

SlothOnARope · 19/06/2024 11:18

By that argument you can't vote for any party, though. Society hates women.

Yes but most of society don’t refer to us as ‘non-men’. They’re disgusting, woman hating loons.

bellinisurge · 19/06/2024 11:37

Hell would have to freeze over. Ironically.

They hate women. They indulge paedophiles (google the Challinor saga). They are at the bidding of their major donors, the makers of Lupron.

They can go fuck themselves

NoTouch · 19/06/2024 11:36

Never.

I am a supporter of any party that will tackle environmental issues and I think that is mostly why people blindly vote for them, completely unaware of the consequences of the rest of the hippie polices they have.