Page 9 | AIBU to consider voting Green instead of Labour in local elections?

Neutralplayer · 2026-05-04T16:26:59+00:00

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?

CreativeGreen · 05/05/2026 13:44

Kemi is so 'cool and collected' that she thought Starmer should do more 'to stop the people attacking us' but later clarified that she didn't think we should have joined the war in Iran, but she did think we should do more about it, but not join it, but also be more on the US's side, but also not be in the war, but do more than not being in the war.... yeah, what a woman. Wish she'd been in charge since March, I'm sure things would be going famously for us on the global stage now.

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 13:45

Love that - well done Kemi.

Calling out the bullshit.

Sausagenbacon · 05/05/2026 13:51

KB is great on this. Also on Gender Issues.

Upstartled · 05/05/2026 14:56

Yes, so glad she doesn't hide behind a lectern and will challenge the whatabouttery position without apologising for herself or playing the victim.

beeble347 · 05/05/2026 15:09

TheKeatingFive · 05/05/2026 12:46

I don't understand why you've concluded that's the Greens though, beyond their historic reputation.

The current version of the Green party has been much less concrete than Labour and have shown themselves easily distracted by every passing leftish cause going.

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I haven't decided as yet, but that's the most important point to me. I have voted Green before though.

C8H10N4O2 · 05/05/2026 15:21

Whyhaveibeencutoutofmamsnot · 04/05/2026 19:53

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

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They are also your point of contact for local services and problems with services. Whoever is elected is supposed to be there for the whole voting area, not just their supporters and not just those they agree with.

WaffleBomb · 05/05/2026 15:24

Northernstella · 05/05/2026 13:22

I think I have my first ever girl crush at the age of 46. Go Kemi 👏🙏👏

Me too 😊

SapphOhNo · 05/05/2026 15:29

I think KB handled that situation really well. But I still wouldn't trust her to look after a potted plant.

EasternStandard · 05/05/2026 15:43

SapphOhNo · 05/05/2026 15:29

I think KB handled that situation really well. But I still wouldn't trust her to look after a potted plant.

Which party leader do you prefer?

BIossomtoes · 05/05/2026 16:08

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 10:14

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

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I just did.

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 16:10

BIossomtoes · 05/05/2026 16:08

I just did.

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I’m not convinced they’re listening to you, BT…

BIossomtoes · 05/05/2026 16:11

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 16:10

I’m not convinced they’re listening to you, BT…

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I’m sure they’re not but I tried. 🤷‍♀️

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 16:14

BIossomtoes · 05/05/2026 16:11

I’m sure they’re not but I tried. 🤷‍♀️

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Perhaps take solace in the idiom ‘god loves a trier’.

Not sure He loves the toolmakers son, but hey.

HRTQueen · 05/05/2026 16:15

Yes yabu

but yanbu if you are want to support a party led by a leader who plays into anti semitism to gain support

Noodledog · 05/05/2026 16:25

Green candidate suggested Israel paid Hamas to carry out October 7 attacks

Yet another person standing as a Green party candidate in the local elections with a background of antisemitism and posting racist conspiracy theories.

At this point, no-one who votes Green can pretend that they aren't perfectly aware that they are choosing to vote for a party riddled with hate filled racists.

Upstartled · 05/05/2026 16:38

Noodledog · 05/05/2026 16:25

Green candidate suggested Israel paid Hamas to carry out October 7 attacks

Yet another person standing as a Green party candidate in the local elections with a background of antisemitism and posting racist conspiracy theories.

At this point, no-one who votes Green can pretend that they aren't perfectly aware that they are choosing to vote for a party riddled with hate filled racists.

Suspended and blocked to be an MP for the Greens in 2024 for being a fucking loon, now jockeying to represent Rushall-Shelfield on the council. Nice chap 🤨

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 16:40

Labour has urged the Greens to expel members and candidates who have posted “antisemitic hatred” on social media, stepping up its criticism of the populist leftwing party on the issue ahead of key elections on Thursday across Britain.

In a campaign video posted by Labour on Monday evening, an unnamed Jewish woman lists comments allegedly made by prospective councillors for the Greens, and condemns them as “antisemitic” and “stereotypes, demonisations, or conspiracy theories of Jews at large”.

FT

Skinnysaluki · 05/05/2026 18:08

NoisyHiker · 05/05/2026 07:46

Do you think drug use is completely unrelated to other crimes, including rape and murder? Really?

If it is legal, will addicts suddenly gain the ability to earn the money to pay for their fix? Will they stop being vulnerable to exploitation and assault? Will drug lords just pack up nicely and go home, or continue the murders, raping and offering of even cheaper and more dangerous drugs than the legalised ones?

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I don’t know- why don’t you do some research into places where it’s happened? Unless your questions are just rhetoric.

Skinnysaluki · 05/05/2026 18:11

millymollymoomoo · 05/05/2026 12:26

Green = Islamist party, open borders, defunding police

nothing to do with environment

don’t understand economics ( worse than reeves if you can even get that!)

anti semite
pro terror

very very dangerous party.

no one has learned the lesson from Iran. Like turkeys voting for Christmas !

Wtf do you mean ‘Islamist party’?? What is that when it is at home?

NoisyHiker · 05/05/2026 18:30

Skinnysaluki · 05/05/2026 18:08

I don’t know- why don’t you do some research into places where it’s happened? Unless your questions are just rhetoric.

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Like here? Amazingly, it resulted in higher public drug taking, antisocial behaviour and harder/cheaper/more dangerous drugs being taken and fatal overdoses.

All those lovely drug dealers didn't just pack up and start knitting. Rather surprisingly, they kept doing illegal things, including selling drugs.

Who could have seen that coming 🙄

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/21/oregon-drug-law-measure-110-backlash

Northernstella · 05/05/2026 18:35

Hallowedturf · 05/05/2026 16:40

Labour has urged the Greens to expel members and candidates who have posted “antisemitic hatred” on social media, stepping up its criticism of the populist leftwing party on the issue ahead of key elections on Thursday across Britain.

In a campaign video posted by Labour on Monday evening, an unnamed Jewish woman lists comments allegedly made by prospective councillors for the Greens, and condemns them as “antisemitic” and “stereotypes, demonisations, or conspiracy theories of Jews at large”.

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made by prospective councillors for the Greens, and condemns them as “antisemitic” and “stereotypes, demonisations, or conspiracy theories of Jews at large
Ugly

BackToLurk · 05/05/2026 19:28

Skinnysaluki · 04/05/2026 20:23

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.

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This is what the new members think of that one ‘excellent MP’, but keep telling yourself the party hadn’t changed.

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

Skinnysaluki · 05/05/2026 21:21

BackToLurk · 05/05/2026 19:28

This is what the new members think of that one ‘excellent MP’, but keep telling yourself the party hadn’t changed.

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You think a bot from x is representative of a human being Green Party member? Ok!
maybe some critical literacy would help here

Skinnysaluki · 05/05/2026 21:22

NoisyHiker · 05/05/2026 18:30

Like here? Amazingly, it resulted in higher public drug taking, antisocial behaviour and harder/cheaper/more dangerous drugs being taken and fatal overdoses.

All those lovely drug dealers didn't just pack up and start knitting. Rather surprisingly, they kept doing illegal things, including selling drugs.

Who could have seen that coming 🙄

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/21/oregon-drug-law-measure-110-backlash

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I’m not sure you have read that article in full. Try again

BackToLurk · 05/05/2026 21:45

Skinnysaluki · 05/05/2026 21:21

You think a bot from x is representative of a human being Green Party member? Ok!
maybe some critical literacy would help here

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EleanoraStats runs StatsForLefties. She’s Ell Folan who joined the Greens in 2023 (along with a whole heap of her Corbyn -loving mates) and stood for the Greens in 2024.

What was that about ‘critical literacy’?