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

I believe so yes.

A growing sense of anti immigration sentiment, largely focussed on “small boats”.

A focus on “gender critical” beliefs in the guise of protection of women.

Largely mocking the greens because of their position on drug policy.

I’d categorise these stances as right wing, and they are widely held on this site.

I doubt it because the local elections will absolutely impact the national parties, indicating how out of touch or otherwise they are.

I have voted green in the past in the local elections when they stood for environmental issues. I could not give them my vote now- they have turned into devisive populists. I grew up around sectarianism, and cannot vote for any party that plays that card.

There's going to be a lot of disappointed people after these elections when they realise local authorities and their councillors have zero power over half the stuff they think they're voting for

If you’re thinking of voting Green, you are almost deranged enough to not be entitled to vote at all.
Please read their policies. They are nut jobs. And dangerous ones at that.

Tricky they’re both bad. But we’re in the same position here. I still won’t vote for either.

I'm going green

Seems its all to play for in my safe london labour seat 💚👀

These are local elections. People should be voting on local issues. I suppose it's inevitable people are instead using this as a way of testing out how to vote in a general election.

I will never vote Green again unless they return to being a single issue pressure group trying to get people to take the environment seriously. They have instead morphed into an extreme left-wing party full of people who left or were chucked out of the Labour party for anti-semitic views disguised as pro-Palestinian or anti-Zionist views. They have thrown out many long-standing members who don't support their totally unscientific, ideologically driven position on gender and sex, i.e. self-declared gender matters, sex doesn't.

As for Zack Polanski, give me strength. What an absolute fraud he is.

Have they been a dismal failure in your area? What’s your local councillor been doing?

Likewise.

The Greens are utterly appalling and spiralling into a toxic mess.

Like PP said, this has nothing to do with national policy. I’ll be voting green because they seem like the best option among the candidates in my area. I’ve always voted labour but my local labour council has been dogged with scandal and failings in recent years.

Which is all well and good but if everyone decided not to vote for a specific party because someone in that party had been arrested for something, how would anyone actually find a party to vote for?

Luckily enough where I live there a lot of local resident candidates who campaign on local issues in the area they are standing.
Nothing about NHS (apart from wanting to use hospital x two miles away but in a different district rather than hospital y which cannot be reached on public transport) mainly buses, bins, parking and potholes.

Labour always poll badly here (from the 1 in 5 that can be arsed to vote).

However keeping the reform rabble from the door is the key here. If that means Green (who have no chance of winning) then so be it.

Right wing, I think you are a wee bit confused about what "right wing" means 😂

Nationally Labour has not been a dismal failure (although the right wing media would like you to swallow that idea - I assume you would be wise enough not to do that) so I can only presume you are referring to a Labour council local to you.

You need to vote tactically to try and get as near to your desired result. If this means voting green then do that.

Nationally Green seems to have lost its way a bit and they need a new leader; but if voting for them locally will achieve your desired result then that is the thing to do.

I appreciate that they are local elections but they are also a way of judging current opinion on the parties.

There is literally nothing a party could promise on bins, potholes and social care that would make me overlook the fact that they are full of Jew hatred.

MN has 'a heavy right wing bias'? You're having a laugh aren't you.

You need to find out if your local candidate(s) have policies they can enact at local level, that you agree with. Many councils’ budget only stretches to cover their mandatory duties (social care, bins) so whoever gets in has very little budget to play with and will mainly get bogged down in that sort of thing.

Nationally the Greens are very pro house building and green energy but you may find your local ones are very NIMBYish about either new housing or new renewal energy being built locally. So you’d need to check what sort you’ve got.

Find out if your local ones are old fashioned hippies or young blue haired progressive antisemites - the Greens are a mix of both so you need to be sure what you’re getting.

Vote for whoever you like, but take the context I to account.

In the Welsh elections I'm voting Plaid which is who I want to win, but if Greens stood the best chance of keeping Reform out then I'd switch in a heartbeat. It's not a local election though, but a Senedd one.

They are not the same party they used to be. Please read their manifesto.

Please don't. I have done in the past in local elections to boost sensible thinking on environmental issues (Labour voter usually) but now they are crazed and a joke, at a time when we desperately need seriousness. My local Green party has made me very annoyed this week by delivering a leaflet on a single issue singularly irrelevant to running a city in the UK: supporting Palestine.

Here's an example from Bristol of what the Greens can do - terfing out TERFs - when they get to run a local authority: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20g1elqr6yo

I wouldn’t vote for the Green Party, as they don’t believe in safe spaces for women.

Good lord no they are not only insane. Also’liars’.

And as well as all the above, they think men can become women (and presumably vice versa)