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

The fact anyone is campaigning for Gaza in a British local council election is beyond stupid.

Particularly damning on the Greens, for even talking about it.

A sign of how depressingly bad UK politics has become.

It’s not even relevant in a national election.

😂oh dear god.

We are real people with real concerns. I am totally against reform and see the greens as exactly as despicable as reform. The same inhumane and manipulative populist tactics. Wrong on all levels.

Having seen Polanski's horrid campaign of stirring up social division, I couldn't be more repulsed.

So for many it's centre parties all the way now.

Polanski has actually done Labour a huge favour.

You should report those posts to MN.

My local councillors, both county and district, are Greens.

I was a bit sceptical about them at first, but they've all turned out to be very effective councillors. As well as being good at getting individuals' casework sorted out, they've been really proactive at things like getting gates and stiles repaired on public footpaths, potholes fixed, prevented our local bus service from being cut, kicked ass re EHCP delays and sorted out a couple of awful neighbour nuisance issues on one of the local estates.

It's a hung council (Green, LD, Labour and a couple of independents), and they all seem to work well together. I suspect because it's pointless any one group trying to outvote the rest, they have to work collaboratively. Whatever, it's the best it's been in all the 35 years I've lived here, despite big cuts in the central government grant.

I live in a London borough that’s always Tory controlled and dominated apart from a few wards which are Labour. I will vote Labour although I dislike the national party, because both candidates, though new, are visible and experienced campaigners and Labour councillors locally tend to go above and beyond to sort out residents’ issues.

I haven’t seen the Green candidates at all. Googling brings up nothing except two rather posh linked in profiles nothing about what they believe in or past campaigning work. I also don’t agree with the Green Party National policies.

People have a view on them, why wouldn’t they?

what drugs are you on - Mumsnet is HEAVILY LEFT WING.

OP - depends on how racist you are, and how much you believe that the leader can make boobs bigger by hypnotherapy - 'the evidence of this is growing' he said and this on record. I am a tory supporter BUT if voting for labour (who are absolutely shit) means i keep that psychotic green party out - i will vote for labour.

No, you're unreasonable for thinking of voting for the Greens with the current leadership.

Please look at the ACTUAL record of the people standing
on making your community work better
Yes, check out Tina Ion, a candidate for the party in Newcastle. Her antisemitic social posts are truly vile.

YANBU. We can’t vote in Bristol this May. But if we could I’d vote Green
I'm from Bristol too. I'm very interested to hear why you think that they,, and our Green MP Carla Denyer, deserve support.

Im voting Labour. I like the local candidate - he spoke at my daughter’s school, he’s been visible and active and he sent a specific letter to everyone on the estate about a road issue we have complained about and how he’ll fix it.

Also I’m Jewish so wouldn’t touch Green anything now. Appreciate they won’t be doing much to sort the war while talking bins and libraries, but doing well in these elections would tell me I’m not wanted here and I should be seriously considering my future

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?

I am more afraid of the Greens getting in than any other party. The current party are happily throwing tax payers money around. The Greens would be even worse.

There have been zillions of anti reform threads . I think there is a huge left wing bias on this forum but the Greens need to be called out because they’ve gone from a gentle eco friendly party to harbouring racist antisemetic candidates and just dangerous policies .

Because some people are only now beginning to see that a party they had filed under 'harmless environmentalists' are actually antisimitic, drug pedalling, women hating, fiscally incontinent tit-whisperers.

So you support the greens then? Which of their policies do you like? Does all the racism bother you, or were you already racist?

Is drug use equivalent to rape and murder? Really?
If there was some decriminalisation maybe it would tackle the actual rapes and murders that are currently part of county lines gang activities.
in any case, it’s worth having the discussion- many other countries have. It seems that in other places people can have a normal conversation about changes that could be made to improve lives and services. Shame that doesn’t happen in the UK

I honestly think journos are doing the rounds on here at the min, whipping up hatred against the Greens. We had one Reform thread sure but the rest have been anti Green and it’s been going on for weeks. Very suspicious.

That’s pretty much what it was like 200 years ago

The prospect of a Green led council is just about the only thing that could get me to vote Labour.

Labour Lib Dems and Tories all seem like excellent choices these days.

Green and Reform go in the bin

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Oh, it's that simple?

Just think of how low we could get the crime stats if we legalise rape, theft and murder!

I'm sure there will be no unintended negative social consequences of no longer punishing undesirable behaviour.

The greens are barking mad so why on earth would you support them , especially as a protest vote against Labour . Personally I would abstain rather than vote for a party I don’t believe in .

There is nothing right-wing about thinking women's sport, prisons, refuges, rape counselling group therapy, breastfeeding and menopause support, loos and changing rooms, women's officer roles and all the other things reserved for women and girls only for our safety, privacy and fairness should be for females, not males.