If you knew the Greens would win in your seat you'd vote for them

[SlothOnARope]

In other words, people don't vote Green mainly because they think they have no chance.

Their manifesto on Education seems to correspond with a lot of views on mumsnet, aibu?

No.

Like Reform, their manifesto is crazy and unworkable.

The greens have done a good job ensuring green issues are on the agenda with the bigger parties such as Labour and the Conservatives. But they are not a party of government.

Nope because the Scottish greens are women hating crackpots.

Nope. They’re idiots as well as there are a lot of floating voters but their batshit beliefs and behaviour in Scotland has stopped them being a decent choice.

A protest vote is basically what I am doing. This is absolutely a safe Labour seat, and if Lab gets a rocket up its arse with a massively reduced majority, it might, just might, be held accountable for some of the damage it has done.

I live in hope that is all I can do.

I would vote for them if it would keep out a Tory MP as their policies are worse overall, but I lost faith in them despite being a member of the Greens for some years.

.....my local candidate, who is really excellent on local issues and that is what matters to me.

General elections aren't about local issues. The elected government needs to have policies on national and international affairs. What are the Green party's policies on the Middle East or aid for Ukraine or the Commonwealth?

There are no safe seats in this election. Rishi has been campaigning in places with a 20kmajority.
As for hoping reform win seats it would be a disaster for the county if that scumbag Nigel Farage was leading the opposition.

I don't agree with most of their policies so no I would not vote for them.

In the last year wind power has accounted doen32.3% of the total power used for the UK - you can see live figures here:
https://grid.iamkate.com/

To reach 70% you're talking about having to increase wind farms by over twice the number we have now. It's currently increasing at a rate of single figures per year. They need to acquire the land, the planning permission and so on on an exponential scale. In Cornwall there are HUGE objections to them going up in beautiful areas or our at sea and I gather this is replicated nationally.

https://renews.biz/92211/uk-wind-generation-hits-record-levels/

I live in a pretty safe Labour seat with a sitting MP I respect.

If I lived elsewhere I'd certainly consider it.

As mentioned I don't agree with any party in full, absolutely not.

It's just a shame that a good local Green candidate is going to miss out because the rest of her party is challenged in the sanity department.

Not a chance

But she joined that party. She knows who they are and what they stand for and she still chooses to represent them without standing up/speaking out against the policies she doesn't approve of.

To me that makes her as morally bankrupt as the nutters she's working with.

See also any claims about a "good Tory".

I wouldn’t vote for a bunch of loonies - they make the old looney party look good!

I sincerely would like to think that you are right about climate change, but the evidence strongly shows you are wrong.

Humans have caused localised climate change before that has led to the collapse of societies, now we're doing it on a global scale.

Yes, that’s kinda how I see it. I was impressed with how well the Green candidate spoke at the debates, but their policies let them down.

I work for a large local authority and often voted green before in local council elections. Never again. They are the most obstructive group of councillors I've ever worked with.

They force through road closures in neighbourhood areas to "keep pollution down" with no regard to the increased pollution/traffic elsewhere (they choose not to measure levels in areas that will provide evidence in counter to their suggestions). The policies are deeply unpopular yet are forced on the residents.

They are also all over the low emission zones in cities and if they had it their way, everyone driving a personal vehicle would be paying to enter it. Totally incompatible with modern living and the cost of living crisis.

Awful awful awful, I cannot state it enough 😂

If I thought the Greens could win our local election, I'd vote for whichever party was most likely to beat them, even if it were the Tories! Hell would have to freeze over before I'd vote Green or vote for a different party to split the opposition vote and let Green win by default.

Actually she speaks out very strongly on everything that's important to her and left another party due to its stance on a certain issue so no, not morally bankrupt.

In the UK they really do present as a fringe party with some very ill thought out ideas and very misogynistic views on women.

So depressing that women’s rights are so easily waved away by many. No I will not vote for any party that hates women.

Same. They won't get my vote under any circumstances.

Fuck no. It might mobilise me to get off my arse and canvass for another party if that were a possibility.

No. Because they believe a man can self-identify as a woman and on that basis have access to all spaces designed to keep women safe from men, no questions asked. Absolutely no!

Hell would freeze over before I voted for the women-hating Green Party.