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

[Neutralplayer]

I’m strongly thinking of ditching Labour & voting for the Green party in the forthcoming local elections because Labour has been such a dismal failure. Do you think this is a good idea or am I being unreasonable?

Given they had 2 candidates arrested for inciting racism and then their own leader was posting antisemetic BS on socials last week they would be one of the last parties i would vote for

I came on here to say exactly the same. Could never vote Green with antisemitism in the current party

Riddled with anti-semites, in favour of leaving NATO, giving up all our nukes, allowing in unlimited migrants, legalising crack, letting a load of prisoners out of prison. And that’s before we get onto the economic insanity.

I’m no fan of the current Labour Party but will be voting for them with enthusiasm to try and keep the Greens out of my area.

How good is your current local councillor? Our Labour councillor has been excellent on local issues so I will be voting for him again despite my disappointment with the the party at a national level.

I think you should read there manifesto and up on them. There politics are seriously scary and I dread to see the state the country we will be in if they get in power.

These are LOCAL elections.

What do your LOCAL candidates have to say about LOCAL issues

What LOCAL Green policies do you like more than Labour

It's up to you if you like their policies but they're not the Green party of old. They seem like real nut jobs with a dangerous leader, real name Dave.

They want totally open borders.
Never even seem to mention the environment.

Vote how you please. We don't know what your local candidates are like.

YANBU. We can’t vote in Bristol this May. But if we could I’d vote Green.

Also don’t be too disheartened by responses on this forum. Mumsnet has a heavy right wing bias and a large number of one issue voters who are obsessed with gender politics.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?