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

Do what you want and feel is right.

If you like your green candidates then vote for them.

Kemi Badenoch was recently polled as the most popular UK political leader, so it is a bit odd that the conservatives are the ones distancing themselves from their leader.

Please look at the ACTUAL record of the people standing
on making your community work better

Many "Reform" candidates previously stood as Brexit / Ukip / BNP
so you can check whether they were any use.

Many "Green" candidates are long standing locals who quietly despise what the National party has become
(see also Lib Dems)

In my area all the Tories are standing as "independent conservatives" to distance themselves from Badenoch

What a mess
We need STV as soon as possible at local level
because multiple seats being won with under 25% of the vote
is going to look BAAAAD

What I don’t understand - so someone feel free to educate and explain if you vsm

why do people like ZA go on free Palestine marches

when if he was in Gaza as a gay Jewish man wouldn’t he be there enemy , a target

I mean I can’t imagine them protesting for being liberal about being gay and being Jewish in Gaza

According to what I have read - they want to legalize all drugs
Im Sure I read that they want allow class A drugs to be free

they want open borders

after what ZP said about the police officers restraining the guy who stabbed 3 people
any one who votes for the Green Party is as nuts as the Green Party is

It's worrying how utterly clueless they are about the economy.

Vote for who you want to run your council services. I understand the temptation to punish the government nationally but when the Greens ran Brighton council, they were crap. Not to mention the flagrant antisemitism currently running through the party.

I suppose it depends on whether whether you tolerate their massive problem with racists and cranks.

Why do you say downward trend? You think the left are on an upward trend???

No, because their leader posted some truly horrible comments about the atrocities commites in and around Golders Green last week.

I don’t think you’ve read any of the past manifestos because none of these are new policies. I’ve been voting Green on and off since about 1999 and progressive taxation, drug decriminalisation etc have always been part of their manifesto. No one clutched their pearls about it then because no one thought they were going to take a quarter of the vote.

You need to give your head a wobble and understand what they are representing. It’s toxic!

Don’t vote either

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.

Have you actually read any of their policies? They're basically communists.

The Greens are demented, with a chunky side-order of antisemitism.

If you vote Green you're voting for a party leader who has twice publicly said that he could hypnotise women into growing larger breasts. The party welcomes all immigrants, whoever they might be and however they get to this country, and will pay them full benefits from day 1. They want to legalise all drugs, including heroin and crack and will set up business arrangements with the south American cartels. They want to restrict the maximum speed on roads to 55mph, including on motorways. Woe betide you if you earn well because they're going to pay for all the increased costs by heavily taxing you.
Modern Greens are as far away from the old Green party as it's possible to be..

OP, you’re going to get a lot of shit about them being anti semitic because they don’t believe that what Israel is doing in Gaza is right.

The last paragraph of Janice Turner's column in Saturday's Times summed up my position - Green Party are not what they used to be - environmental and fundamentally decent people. Now they've hoovered up all the people angry about Gaza and middle class trendies who think they are edgy - the kind who went to Glastonbury and cheered on Corbyn - and the TRAs. The ones standing locally to me are probably the decent kind but I won't ever lend them my vote locally again - because Zack will take the credit and he's a dreadful man.

Labour or the Greens - talk about Sophie’s Choice.

Is there no alternative, OP?

Anyone who has read anything in AIBU on mumsnet for at least five years now, maybe ten, can clearly see that there is a heavy right wing bias.
Having been here (getting great advice) for a long long time, the downwards trend is sad and exasperating. I think it began when all the trans stuff kicked off but maybe it was earlier.

Gah! Just did. Grim, but not surprising. There seem to be an awful lot of dodgy Green candidates. Has anyone done a poll of which party has had the most people deselected and for what reasons? Green and a reform must be leading it. Although the SNP seems to attract some dubious individuals too.

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

Google “Aimee Challenor”.

They lost the plot a long time ago!