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

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Neutralplayer · 04/05/2026 17:26

I’m strongly thinking of ditching Labour & voting for the Green party in the forthcoming local elections because Labour has been such a dismal failure. Do you think this is a good idea or am I being unreasonable?

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Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 16:10

BIossomtoes · 05/05/2026 16:08

I just did.

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

BIossomtoes · 05/05/2026 16:08

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 10:14

Tell that to the swathes of voters limbering up to do just that.

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I just did.

EasternStandard · 05/05/2026 15:43

SapphOhNo · 05/05/2026 15:29

I think KB handled that situation really well. But I still wouldn't trust her to look after a potted plant.

Which party leader do you prefer?

SapphOhNo · 05/05/2026 15:29

I think KB handled that situation really well. But I still wouldn't trust her to look after a potted plant.

WaffleBomb · 05/05/2026 15:24

Northernstella · 05/05/2026 13:22

I think I have my first ever girl crush at the age of 46. Go Kemi 👏🙏👏

Me too 😊

C8H10N4O2 · 05/05/2026 15:21

Whyhaveibeencutoutofmamsnot · 04/05/2026 19:53

Where I live next weeks voting has nothing to do with schools and social care that is county, the leisure centre is in private hands.
It is bins and the system is working (very few flats) and planning permission

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They are also your point of contact for local services and problems with services. Whoever is elected is supposed to be there for the whole voting area, not just their supporters and not just those they agree with.

beeble347 · 05/05/2026 15:09

TheKeatingFive · 05/05/2026 12:46

I don't understand why you've concluded that's the Greens though, beyond their historic reputation.

The current version of the Green party has been much less concrete than Labour and have shown themselves easily distracted by every passing leftish cause going.

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I haven't decided as yet, but that's the most important point to me. I have voted Green before though.

Upstartled · 05/05/2026 14:56

Yes, so glad she doesn't hide behind a lectern and will challenge the whatabouttery position without apologising for herself or playing the victim.

Sausagenbacon · 05/05/2026 13:51

KB is great on this. Also on Gender Issues.

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 13:45

Love that - well done Kemi.

Calling out the bullshit.

CreativeGreen · 05/05/2026 13:44

Kemi is so 'cool and collected' that she thought Starmer should do more 'to stop the people attacking us' but later clarified that she didn't think we should have joined the war in Iran, but she did think we should do more about it, but not join it, but also be more on the US's side, but also not be in the war, but do more than not being in the war.... yeah, what a woman. Wish she'd been in charge since March, I'm sure things would be going famously for us on the global stage now.

Northernstella · 05/05/2026 13:29

EasternStandard · 05/05/2026 13:26

I hear you, she’s great.

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She played Polanski at his own game 🏆

And with an air of natural authority while relaxed, casual and relatable. Nice style!

EasternStandard · 05/05/2026 13:26

Northernstella · 05/05/2026 13:23

I'll stop swooning but how cool and collected is she.

I hear you, she’s great.

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 05/05/2026 13:25

The greens are fucking nuts. Misogynists and anti semites too. YABU

Northernstella · 05/05/2026 13:23

I'll stop swooning but how cool and collected is she.

EasternStandard · 05/05/2026 13:22

Northernstella · 05/05/2026 13:21

Oh wow!!!!

I LOVE Kemi

I am normal between Labour / Lib Dem

Love her here.

I want her as prime minister.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15790989/1930s-repeated-Kemi-Badenoch-heckler-antisemitism-Britain.html#v-5433847627961945169

😍

Yep

Northernstella · 05/05/2026 13:22

I think I have my first ever girl crush at the age of 46. Go Kemi 👏🙏👏

JazzyJelly · 05/05/2026 13:03

MelancholiaOrRaving · 05/05/2026 11:56

I do. If a government can't define what a woman is it can't protect or promote women's rights.

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Me too, for exactly this reason. And no, I won't vote Reform. Labour have the best chance of keeping them out in my area, so I'm voting for them.

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 12:54

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 12:39

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.

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Correction ‘Rayner’

TheKeatingFive · 05/05/2026 12:51

And, to build on what a previous poster has said, blowing up the economy is a spectacularly stupid strategic position if you care about the future of the planet.

If people's living standards drop even further, good luck in getting them to focus on sustainability.

TheKeatingFive · 05/05/2026 12:46

beeble347 · 05/05/2026 12:31

I will decide locally but will vote for whoever I think is taking the climate emergency most seriously. I find it confusing how anyone can be voting with immigration in mind and not think of the waves of refugees we'll be seeing as the climate emergency worsens. Food prices set to have gone up by 50% by November. It's terrifying.

And I do think ZP is an idiot for how he spoke about the Golders Green attacker, and what little he has done to condemn anti-Semitism. Also don't agree with him re safe spaces for women. But I have a child and in my eyes, his future and safety is number one.

I don't understand why you've concluded that's the Greens though, beyond their historic reputation.

The current version of the Green party has been much less concrete than Labour and have shown themselves easily distracted by every passing leftish cause going.

Hellohelga · 05/05/2026 12:45

I’m left wing and an environmentalist but no way would I vote Green as things stand. ZP will blow up the economy. And don’t say labour already did this as we all know Trumps responsible for the current shit show.

C8H10N4O2 · 05/05/2026 12:39

Skinnysaluki · 04/05/2026 20:23

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.

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Turner was spot on and in the past has done such analyses of other party leaders (Farage was a doozy as I recall). I find it interesting that you need to attack the messenger rather than identifying any factual inaccuracies in the article.

I have in the past been a member of the Green party, I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole since it became dominated by loons kicked out of Labour and a rag bag of racist and misogynist identity politicians. I agree with the PPs upthread - current Green party and Reform are two cheeks of the same arse.

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 12:39

FernandoSor · 05/05/2026 11:29

Utter rot - the bond markets do not care about local elections one jot. In fact very few people in the UK care, given how low the turnout is.

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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.