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?

Im voting Labour. I like the local candidate - he spoke at my daughter’s school, he’s been visible and active and he sent a specific letter to everyone on the estate about a road issue we have complained about and how he’ll fix it.

Also I’m Jewish so wouldn’t touch Green anything now. Appreciate they won’t be doing much to sort the war while talking bins and libraries, but doing well in these elections would tell me I’m not wanted here and I should be seriously considering my future

YANBU. We can’t vote in Bristol this May. But if we could I’d vote Green
I'm from Bristol too. I'm very interested to hear why you think that they,, and our Green MP Carla Denyer, deserve support.

Please look at the ACTUAL record of the people standing
on making your community work better
Yes, check out Tina Ion, a candidate for the party in Newcastle. Her antisemitic social posts are truly vile.

No, you're unreasonable for thinking of voting for the Greens with the current leadership.

what drugs are you on - Mumsnet is HEAVILY LEFT WING.

OP - depends on how racist you are, and how much you believe that the leader can make boobs bigger by hypnotherapy - 'the evidence of this is growing' he said and this on record. I am a tory supporter BUT if voting for labour (who are absolutely shit) means i keep that psychotic green party out - i will vote for labour.

People have a view on them, why wouldn’t they?

I live in a London borough that’s always Tory controlled and dominated apart from a few wards which are Labour. I will vote Labour although I dislike the national party, because both candidates, though new, are visible and experienced campaigners and Labour councillors locally tend to go above and beyond to sort out residents’ issues.

I haven’t seen the Green candidates at all. Googling brings up nothing except two rather posh linked in profiles nothing about what they believe in or past campaigning work. I also don’t agree with the Green Party National policies.

My local councillors, both county and district, are Greens.

I was a bit sceptical about them at first, but they've all turned out to be very effective councillors. As well as being good at getting individuals' casework sorted out, they've been really proactive at things like getting gates and stiles repaired on public footpaths, potholes fixed, prevented our local bus service from being cut, kicked ass re EHCP delays and sorted out a couple of awful neighbour nuisance issues on one of the local estates.

It's a hung council (Green, LD, Labour and a couple of independents), and they all seem to work well together. I suspect because it's pointless any one group trying to outvote the rest, they have to work collaboratively. Whatever, it's the best it's been in all the 35 years I've lived here, despite big cuts in the central government grant.

You should report those posts to MN.

😂oh dear god.

We are real people with real concerns. I am totally against reform and see the greens as exactly as despicable as reform. The same inhumane and manipulative populist tactics. Wrong on all levels.

Having seen Polanski's horrid campaign of stirring up social division, I couldn't be more repulsed.

So for many it's centre parties all the way now.

Polanski has actually done Labour a huge favour.

The fact anyone is campaigning for Gaza in a British local council election is beyond stupid.

Particularly damning on the Greens, for even talking about it.

A sign of how depressingly bad UK politics has become.

It’s not even relevant in a national election.

What the greens are doing is simply thuggish.

Is your local candidate one of the antisemitic ones?

These are local elections. I’ve always voted Labour nationally and LibDem locally, our LibDem councillors do an excellent job. It’s wrong to see this as an opportunity to stick it to the government.

Tell that to the swathes of voters limbering up to do just that.

Can you explain this more please. In which countries is it illegal to criticise Israel? Which countries does Israel 'control'

But not in the UK, which is where they were arrested.

You missed that they also can't define what a woman is.

That’s the point the clue is in the word local. I actually hope the Greens win a few councils and people will soon see what a bunch of incompetents they are, that’s before we get to the antisemitism.

Hmm. I am not a bot or a Tory but I have to say that I don't like Polanski. I would vote Green to keep Reform out, but that's it.

Most people don’t factor that into their voting decisions. I most definitely don’t.

Honestly? I grew up in Brighton - the council was a nightmare when it was Green. These are local elections - the people elected will not have any control over Gaza (apart from organising protests) nor will they be able to change laws. Pick the people who seem sane and who are likely to make sensible decisions on planning and bins.

I agree.

Utter rot - the bond markets do not care about local elections one jot. In fact very few people in the UK care, given how low the turnout is.