To think we will see the Green party becoming a major player?

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I think the Greens have real chance to become a major party on the scale of lib dems etc. Obviously not competing for a place in no 10, but certainly a significant voice.

Let’s hope so. I want to have a party I can vote for again.

The party for men, and non-men.
(Not even touching on the other stuff)

Nope. They’ll never get my vote.

I think it's highly unlikely. The lib dems are more likely to gain votes at the moment due to Brexit. I wouldn't vote for either of them.

Yes, I think YABU. They did ok yesterday because the Brexit party and Change UK didn’t field candidates and analysis is showing lots of people voted for alternatives simply to kick the two main parties, they didn’t particularly care what their policies were because hardly anyone takes local elections terribly seriously.
Lots of people still don’t trust the Lib-Dems after the fees business or would have voted for them. The Greens were the go to none of the above option in a lot of wards.

God I really hope not.

Our local party is run by nasty bearded woke dude bros who hate middle aged women who understand the reality of biology.

Could never vote for them after seeing how they shielded that sex offender David Challenor.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-46838540

They will never get my vote, after 1) throwing women’s rights to safety and privacy under the bus, to grovel to transgender activists and
2) Supporting the bloody SNP in the Scottish assembly.
If you want to set women’s rights back 50 years, and to break up the U.K., then yeah, go for it.

Nope. The men and non-men thing was the death knell. No ta.

Doubtful, not in the foreseeable future anyway. They may have a sudden surge like UKIP did but it won’t last. People are stubborn and only vote for what they know.

Yes, I think YABU. They did ok yesterday because the Brexit party and Change UK didn’t field candidates and analysis is showing lots of people voted for alternatives simply to kick the two main parties, they didn’t particularly care what their policies were because hardly anyone takes local elections terribly seriously.

I think that's slightly optimistic analysis on behalf of Brexit supporters, tbh. There are more than enough hugely motivated remain supporters who, granted, don't take local elections seriously enough, but want to make their feelings known by voting for EXPLICTLY remain supporting parties.

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. And brexit fans voting for Lib Dems or Greens is definitely zebra analysis.

I think the conservatives and labour would have lost even more votes if the Brexit party fielded candidates btw. Some will have stuck with them for not having somewhere else to go.

But then Ukip are also down, so...

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I don’t, I think it’s pretty accurate.

For the record, I think Brexit is complete shite, the referendum should never have been run and if we don’t cancel the whole pile of poo then we’re even more stupid as a nation than I think we are.

One of the great things about MN (being a bit more cynical older) is the occasional post like this from the 1980s ... sort of throwback Friday vibe .....

YABU They have no chance under our outdated shitty general election system.

God I hope not. I lived in Brighton when they were in charge, they completely wrecked the place. Hate to think what they'd do if they got to be in charge of the whole country.

Trust me, it's no fun having your town run by a bunch of overgrown students, which is why they eventually got voted out by the very people who voted them in in the first place.

They support the SNP. They can go f*^% themselves.

Not a chance.

Nope.

They are no friend to women.

How anyone can vote for them after reading the Verita report is beyond me.

My husband voted Green in the local council elections as he felt their local policies are good but we will both vote Labour in a GE.

Everyone is so focused on Brexit they are forgetting to look at other policies.

No they are a useless group who have no idea of the real world

Not in my area. People would consider having to give up their oversized gas-guzzling status symbol cars as an infringement of their human rights.

Around here, they were used as a protest vote, for those who did not want to vote for any of the other parties. No one actually wants a Green party councillor. They never stood a chance of winning a seat. Our council has a complete Tory stranglehold. If those protest votes had gone to either a Labour or LibDem candidate, that stranglehold could, and would have been broken based on the number of extra votes those candidates needed. And maybe we could have had some balance in our local council.

I do not see them ever being a major player.