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

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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?

Or Reform

I'm voting Green as unhappy with Labour. But I think it's entirely reasonable to vote for whomever you like.

The Lib Dem’s appear to have shifted slightly. They’ve also annoyed TRAs by taking on board the SC judgement in relation to internal elections.

https://liberalvoiceforwomen.org/blog/safeguards-matter

YABU for posting about the elections at all. Do whatever you choose.

Not for a minute. Greens and Reform are two cheeks of a very unattractive arse and I wouldn't vote for either of them. We don't need any flavour of warped ideology and racism, we need sensible politics, delivered in a way that benefits the most people possible.

Where are all the sensible, centrist parties 😩😩

I know, right?

I'll be voting 100. They're the only party that have a sensible economic outlook - taking wealth and rethinking our outdated infrastructure. Labour are a bunch of self serving sleazeballs - Lord Mandelson anyone????

I hate how polarised it’s become. I think it was you earlier on in this thread that was accused of being a Reform supporter because you didn’t want to vote Green. Why do people think they’re the only two options?

Pothole mending and community workshops with a side of antisemitism. Lovely.

Google “Aimee Challenor”.

They lost the plot a long time ago!

Where I live next weeks voting has nothing to do with schools and social care that is county, the leisure centre is in private hands.
It is bins and the system is working (very few flats) and planning permission

Gah! Just did. Grim, but not surprising. There seem to be an awful lot of dodgy Green candidates. Has anyone done a poll of which party has had the most people deselected and for what reasons? Green and a reform must be leading it. Although the SNP seems to attract some dubious individuals too.

Anyone who has read anything in AIBU on mumsnet for at least five years now, maybe ten, can clearly see that there is a heavy right wing bias.
Having been here (getting great advice) for a long long time, the downwards trend is sad and exasperating. I think it began when all the trans stuff kicked off but maybe it was earlier.

Labour or the Greens - talk about Sophie’s Choice.

Is there no alternative, OP?

The last paragraph of Janice Turner's column in Saturday's Times summed up my position - Green Party are not what they used to be - environmental and fundamentally decent people. Now they've hoovered up all the people angry about Gaza and middle class trendies who think they are edgy - the kind who went to Glastonbury and cheered on Corbyn - and the TRAs. The ones standing locally to me are probably the decent kind but I won't ever lend them my vote locally again - because Zack will take the credit and he's a dreadful man.

OP, you’re going to get a lot of shit about them being anti semitic because they don’t believe that what Israel is doing in Gaza is right.

If you vote Green you're voting for a party leader who has twice publicly said that he could hypnotise women into growing larger breasts. The party welcomes all immigrants, whoever they might be and however they get to this country, and will pay them full benefits from day 1. They want to legalise all drugs, including heroin and crack and will set up business arrangements with the south American cartels. They want to restrict the maximum speed on roads to 55mph, including on motorways. Woe betide you if you earn well because they're going to pay for all the increased costs by heavily taxing you.
Modern Greens are as far away from the old Green party as it's possible to be..

The Greens are demented, with a chunky side-order of antisemitism.

Have you actually read any of their policies? They're basically communists.

As if Janice Turner, columnist in The (Murdoch) Times has ever given a fuck about the Green Party and how lovely and welly wearing it once was!
What she and the rest miss is a time when it was a small and ineffectual force in politics, despite its one excellent MP, and a once every ten weeks or so appearance from a Green on Question Time that would raise a few sympathetic claps.
The Greens under Polanski are surging hugely and are immensely popular with the young. That’s why suddenly everyone is nostalgic for when a few well meaning Good Life types voted for them.
Because they’re going to change the paradigm on Thursday.

Don’t vote either

You need to give your head a wobble and understand what they are representing. It’s toxic!