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

I have never voted Labour. Usually I discuss all options with my husband but this year i did my own research, i chose one point that is important to me advised my decision on their policies concerning that point.

So which party would that be? Labour surely? With all of the money they are pouring into net zero they must be number 1 amongst those of us with environmental concerns.

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.

You didn't. Some posters who are very articulate seem to lose the powers of comprehension when people disagree with them.

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 !

Where did I say I was voting reform? Their science denial is only one of the very many reasons I would not vote for the Greens. I was just adding it to the long list posted upthread.

Fine, you do you. Reform “knows what a woman is” and will strip your rights in a heartbeat. They’ll repeal the 2010 Equality Act and being a woman will no longer be a protected characteristic.

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

Effectively, drugs like cocaine or heroin would only be available on prescription to those suffering from drug addiction. Same as any other controlled medical drug.

Methadone is already legal if prescribed. Under Green party laws, would doctors have to prescribe cocaine and heroin if patients requested it?

https://www.greenpartydrugpolicy.org.uk/policy

Specifically: "DR302 A Green government will replace prohibition with a legalised, regulated system of drug control. The production, import and supply of all recreational drugs, including alcohol and nicotine but excluding caffeine (see below), will be regulated according to the specific risks that they pose to the individual, to society and to the environment. Drugs that pose the highest risks will be subject to the heaviest regulation; less risky drugs will be subject to lighter regulation."

Effectively, drugs like cocaine or heroin would only be available on prescription to those suffering from drug addiction. Same as any other controlled medical drug.

Me too.

I’m reminded of the time (a general election) when I was so fed up with the whole useless lot of them, I voted for the Monster Raving Loony candidate - I’d never NOT vote at all.

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.

I agree.

Honestly? I grew up in Brighton - the council was a nightmare when it was Green. These are local elections - the people elected will not have any control over Gaza (apart from organising protests) nor will they be able to change laws. Pick the people who seem sane and who are likely to make sensible decisions on planning and bins.

Most people don’t factor that into their voting decisions. I most definitely don’t.

Hmm. I am not a bot or a Tory but I have to say that I don't like Polanski. I would vote Green to keep Reform out, but that's it.

That’s the point the clue is in the word local. I actually hope the Greens win a few councils and people will soon see what a bunch of incompetents they are, that’s before we get to the antisemitism.

You missed that they also can't define what a woman is.

But not in the UK, which is where they were arrested.

Can you explain this more please. In which countries is it illegal to criticise Israel? Which countries does Israel 'control'

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

These are local elections. I’ve always voted Labour nationally and LibDem locally, our LibDem councillors do an excellent job. It’s wrong to see this as an opportunity to stick it to the government.

Is your local candidate one of the antisemitic ones?

What the greens are doing is simply thuggish.