AIBU to consider voting Green instead of Labour in local elections?

Do you just randomly accuse innocent people of hate crimes?

Is your local candidate one of the antisemitic ones?

Our local Green Party have been steadfast and amazing for many, many years. They now hold majority seats in our council and the full cabinet and our town is thriving under them.

I will definitely be switching to them from Labour for this weeks local vote - they do seem to be really proving their worth here and have lots of very positive messages and doing so much community stuff.

Reform are trying really hard here too but they are so negative and just bring arguments and a black cloud whenever they are mentioned.

Our local Green Party have been steadfast and amazing for many, many years. They now hold majority seats in our council and the full cabinet and our town is thriving under them.

I will definitely be switching to them from Labour for this weeks local vote - they do seem to be really proving their worth here and have lots of very positive messages and doing so much community stuff.

Reform are trying really hard here too but they are so negative and just bring arguments and a black cloud whenever they are mentioned.

The greens are even worse than Labour in throwing other people's money around.

YANBU. We can’t vote in Bristol this May. But if we could I’d vote Green.

Also don’t be too disheartened by responses on this forum. Mumsnet has a heavy right wing bias and a large number of one issue voters who are obsessed with gender politics.

Given they had 2 candidates arrested for inciting racism and then their own leader was posting antisemetic BS on socials last week they would be one of the last parties i would vote for

You could not be more wrong.

The bond markets are closely watching anything which would signal Starmer’s removal, and his replacement by Burnham and/or Reeves.

You think a bot from x is representative of a human being Green Party member? Ok!
maybe some critical literacy would help here

Like here? Amazingly, it resulted in higher public drug taking, antisocial behaviour and harder/cheaper/more dangerous drugs being taken and fatal overdoses.

All those lovely drug dealers didn't just pack up and start knitting. Rather surprisingly, they kept doing illegal things, including selling drugs.

Who could have seen that coming 🙄

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/21/oregon-drug-law-measure-110-backlash

This is what the new members think of that one ‘excellent MP’, but keep telling yourself the party hadn’t changed.

As if Janice Turner, columnist in The (Murdoch) Times has ever given a fuck about the Green Party and how lovely and welly wearing it once was!
What she and the rest miss is a time when it was a small and ineffectual force in politics, despite its one excellent MP, and a once every ten weeks or so appearance from a Green on Question Time that would raise a few sympathetic claps.
The Greens under Polanski are surging hugely and are immensely popular with the young. That’s why suddenly everyone is nostalgic for when a few well meaning Good Life types voted for them.
Because they’re going to change the paradigm on Thursday.

Labour has urged the Greens to expel members and candidates who have posted “antisemitic hatred” on social media, stepping up its criticism of the populist leftwing party on the issue ahead of key elections on Thursday across Britain.

In a campaign video posted by Labour on Monday evening, an unnamed Jewish woman lists comments allegedly made by prospective councillors for the Greens, and condemns them as “antisemitic” and “stereotypes, demonisations, or conspiracy theories of Jews at large”.

FT

I don’t know- why don’t you do some research into places where it’s happened? Unless your questions are just rhetoric.

Green = Islamist party, open borders, defunding police

nothing to do with environment

don’t understand economics ( worse than reeves if you can even get that!)

anti semite
pro terror

very very dangerous party.

no one has learned the lesson from Iran. Like turkeys voting for Christmas !

Do you think drug use is completely unrelated to other crimes, including rape and murder? Really?

If it is legal, will addicts suddenly gain the ability to earn the money to pay for their fix? Will they stop being vulnerable to exploitation and assault? Will drug lords just pack up nicely and go home, or continue the murders, raping and offering of even cheaper and more dangerous drugs than the legalised ones?

Green candidate suggested Israel paid Hamas to carry out October 7 attacks

Yet another person standing as a Green party candidate in the local elections with a background of antisemitism and posting racist conspiracy theories.

At this point, no-one who votes Green can pretend that they aren't perfectly aware that they are choosing to vote for a party riddled with hate filled racists.

I’m sure they’re not but I tried. 🤷‍♀️

I’m not convinced they’re listening to you, BT…