Would you approve of an “rainbow” coalition of progressive parties?

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Based on current polling, the most likely outcome of a general election would be Reform largest party, but no majority. In those circumstances, would you approve of Labour / Green / Lib Dem / possibly SNP coalition if they had enough seats to reach a majority?

I think we have everything to lose with greens/lib dems/super left wing labour get into power. I find the idea terrifying.

so basically it’s the Tories in the middle ground isn’t it if the general populace doesn’t want an extreme on either end (which time and time again it proves it doesn’t want- hence we had new labour and conservatives for the last 30 years).

ultimately I don’t fear reform at all. I think with any opposition they can take extreme catchy positions but the reality of government is that those things aren’t always possible. If they got in they would be tempered by what is practical and it will take time to put things in place. I think a reset is what is needed which is why they have my vote this time.

What, Canada? Where they freeze your bank accounts and put you in jail if you disagree with the government...or give you the ability to unalive yourself if you need a hand rail outside your house? Both policies that Labour champion, not Reform.

What @anyolddinosaur said. The thought makes me shudder.

God no.
It would be a complete shitshow.

I imagine that’s one way for Reform to get their majority - threaten the electorate with the prospect of this shitshow.

Those struggling to live on what they have now should be terrified of a Farage government.

No party has been willing to tell people that we can not afford the level of services (like the NHS) that we want without paying more tax. People have been told what they have to think and believe, even when the evidence of their eyes says something different. When politicians lie people lose trust. But Farage is lying too - he doesnt have a magic money tree either and he will take from the poor to give to the rich. He refuses to publish details of his tax arrangements because he knows the public would not like what they'd see.

What's progressive about the modern left? Most of them are identity politics obsessed, authoritarian lunatics. The right is equally bad just in different ways.

I would like it if I thought they could work positively together, but we have no history of these coalition politics in this country really other than Tory/Lib Dem in 2010 which ended in tears.
I suspect the splitting of the left/centre left will just let Reform in.......

Absolutely not. This new understanding of progress, which is frighteningly regressive and authoritarian, is the very last thing I want to see.

a 'rainbow coalition' where women have no sex based rights, huh?

No thanks...

That's not progressive unless you hate women and freedom of thought and speech!

Yes, I might consider it if I thought they stood a decent chance of beating Reform. I would hold my nose and vote even though I don't necessarily agree with everything they believe in (though would very much prefer the SNP were not involved).

My main concern is preventing Farage getting into No. 10.

I don't have a preference. I would vote for our MP again based on the fact he has principles and actually shows up. I don't care what party he belongs to. If we all did this then maybe MPs wouldn't hide behind their party's ideology when voting and would actually vote in accordance to what their constituents need.

Party politics is a problem. People vote like they are football teams without thinking about what policies they are actually voting for.

I don't care about gender politics right now. It's just a distract and divide tactic. I'm more concerned with right wing populism and corruption. I'd just vote for any decent MP that isn't a Reform.

My main concern is preventing Farage getting into No. 10.

'A rainbow coalition of the progressive left' is the fastest way to get Farage in!

What is needed is the for left to become less 'progressive' and more reality based.

I don't see that as any less terrifying than Reform tbh. Both ideas are abhorrent.

Please, please, please, can we have something center/center or center/right. It's where most if the UK populace sit, I can't understand where all the grown ups have gone.

No. Greens/SNP/LibDems prioritise trans identifying men over actual women. I don’t trust Reform either on women’s rights but I would prefer a hung parliament to the ‘rainbow’ rubbish. I don’t think Reform will win. Farage is an idiot and they have rubbish candidates.

Yep add authoritarianism. No thanks op

This.

If the centre/centre right hadn't lied to the public about immigration for the last 20 years, I would agree with you.

No, that would be a nightmare coalition.

I used to support PR but seeing how it worked in Scotland I no longer agree with it. It allows a very small party that very small percentage of the population voted for to become a king maker, and be able to push through policies and legislation that almost no-one voted for.

I may be wrong, but I doubt the greens and SNP will exactly have enough MPs to make any significant difference in forming a coalition, Lib Dem’s may be the key if that was the case, but progressive?

Both Labour and Conservative are quite centrist parties.

Its just that the quality of actual politicians in those parties is quite low. Rather than where they are on the political spectrum.

And we have low quality politicians because we refuse to pay them decent salaries and hate them. So people with the talent and ability we need, are not going into politics.

We blame politicians but we probably need to look at ourselves as an electorate to see why we have crap politicians and a run down country.

The difficulty is nowadays - what is centre right? I have always considered myself centre right. I’m a bit left wing on some issues, a bit right wing on others but generally fall, on average, into a moderate, slightly right of centre position.

but, I have always wanted strong, enforceable borders for instance with a strong born in the country priority for services. This would have been a centre right position until about 20 years ago but now it is deemed far right by many. The same can be said about other views I have that I don’t feel that the media places where I think they sit whether they are left/right of centre.

Maybe the 'progressive parties' could start listening to the electorate in our supposedly democratic nation and act on what they hear and then they could actually stop reform coming in to power that way.

Looking at the MRP polling with More in Common you could have Labour + LibDems + Green coalition and you'd still be 120 seats short of an overall majority, even if they added the SNP (40-50 seats) it's still no dice. You'd have to get the Tories on board too.

The OP included Labour in the coalition, and I would say they're not particularly progressive and are very much centre.

My preference would really be the Lib Dems (who are also generally considered centre rather than left), as I think the best thing this country could do is get back into Europe, economically and as protection from the US/Russian threat. The Greens don't have enough MPs or political momentum to make much difference in a coalition.

My main concerns at the moment are the economy and the rise of fascism.