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

By making it not a crime anymore. Not a crime anymore = technically no crimes.

The point of drugs being illegal is to try and stop people doing them. What benefits to society are there from people being able to take crack cocaine on mass? Is that something you are happy for your children to do? Have you ever met a crackhead?

The point of drug legislation is mainly to reduce crime.

In local elections you should vote for the people who have and will make an actual difference. Look at their history, have they campaigned to save a community centre? Worked in public services? Volunteered or raised money for charity? Set up a local art or music event? Regularly asked questions to the Council? Whatever is important to you, see if their actions match it.

The point of drug legalisation is to prevent harm to users.

@ForCyanGuide How will drug legalisation work? Will we be able to walk into a shop and buy cocaine or heroin like we can buy lip salve or vitamin C supplements?

To all those people claiming that the greens are ‘nothing like when they started out’, have you read any of their manifestos ever? Because the positions haven’t changed.

So what is the change you are so cross about?

the only change I can see is that they look like getting over a fifth of the vote

Gosh since when has MN been such a Tory cesspit? Or is it just overrun with bots?

greens seem to be the only ones working to ensure a better future for our DCs so I know who I’d vote for if we had elections in my areas this year.

Dont blame you for not voting Labour. But dont vote for the Greens. They are awful. Nothing like they were when they started out.

I absolutely believe this. Thankfully, they will never come to power.

well nobody else is going to vote labour, do you want to be the only one 😂

Being a sex realist/GC has absolutely nothing to do with being right wing

You've fallen for some absolute nonsense there.

YABU. They are anti-Semitic and racist.
(And Communist, if that bothers you - a Green Government would completely destroy the economy).
They are the most dangerous political party we have had for a very long time.

I couldn't vote green, at the moment.

I appreciate that voters seem to have had their fill when it comes to centre left and centre right parties, and want something more radical.

The UK is facing profound challenges and I do think there a good argument that they ultimately require transformative solutions, vs incremental tinkering.

I'm all for that being a radical, left wing approach that sees a more equitable distribution of wealth...problem is, the Greens don't seem to have any credible ideas, just ideology. I see them as the mirror image to Reform - willing to promise the world to their voters and completely unaccountable on how they could possibly deliver the vision they promise. Real 6th-form ploticis stuff, and totally lacking in substance.

And yes, the party does appear to have a real antisemitism problem.

https://x.com/uklabour/status/2051332883902525821?s=46&t=N3lQrZ7NOBmzt0lfDUYXPA

The bond markets are going to pulverise the UK if the Greens gain the councils as it’s seen as a sign of what’s to come in a GE. That might not matter to many but it will when the cost of living soars and the spending cuts come in.

The next general election will not be until 2029.
The op is talking about this week's local elections.

I would vote for them. Labour have been a disaster. I have seen no evidence of widespread antisemitism in the Green party,

I'd never vote Labour in the main election but the local Labour Councillor is quite present, responds to emails, helps out at the school and is quite visable. I would consider voting him. It's about local issues not national.

Labour = dismal failure, that's nothing to what a Green government will be.

Yep she’s ahead of the party on that.

I’d really love a proper old school Green councillor. I use cycle infrastructure on a daily basis and it would be great if they were interested in the environment still, but the Green looking to be elected in the Scottish parliament where I am thinks we should abolish all prisons, which would obviously be appalling. No way I’m going to vote for them. That and their views on women are disgusting.

OP - you obviously live in a Labour controlled ward / council. If you think your councillors have been a dismal failure then the Greens may well be a good option. They have been great locally in a lot of areas.
What have your Labour Councillors failed on out of interest?

This on bloody spades

So the leader of the greens is of Jewish heritage yet the whole party hate Jews?

Either way they’re all nut jobs, as is anyone who votes for them!

Well luckily Ed Dwfey is not standing for a position on my council.

Our Lib Dem majority council is well run, not in deficit (unlike an adjacent Tory-run council that went bankrupt) and provides excellent services despite the huge cuts in local government funding. So I’ll happily vote again for our engaged, proactive, and communicative Lib Dem councillors.

These are local elections so look at what your local candidates are saying. I volunteer for the Green Party and hoping to elect a councillor on Thursday. She knows the area, the people know her, she is active all year round and really deserves to win. The people in my local group work hard to support her.
National press has had some challenging headlines recently, but try not to be coerced into thinking that all of that is true. Mumsnet responses can be very one sided - read up on your candidate and follow your own ideas.