AIBU to hope the greens do very well today?

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That’s it really. go Zack! 💚

Well that would depend if you are as keen to see Hamas brought to book rather than just using it to slate Israel. One is being concerned for the people of Gaza the other is racist.

No I bet they didn't

There are other issues

It’s not about ‘trans issues’. It’s about protecting girls and women from male violence.

Good Lord if you don’t even understand the debate you can’t possibly be assured that the Greens will ‘stick up for women’s rights’.

They won’t, so thanks for that… selling us all down the Swanee river with your vote. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Why would you replace first past the post when the country voted to retain it?

Do you not believe in the Democratic will of the people?

“They won’t, so thanks for that… selling us all down the Swanee river with your vote. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻”

Oh don’t be sooooo dramatic.Its utter madness on MN!! Completely bonkers!

Basic women's rights won over the last century:

Protection from unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex.
Rights to specific sex based provisions in some situations.

Please explain how these can be protected, provided or reviewed if sex cannot be defined.

Didn't that vote happen 15 years ago?

I agree. I like their policies in principles (welcoming refugees and immigrants, as per Zack Polanski’s conference speech last speech), and I think Hannah Spencer will be a good MP for Gorton and Denton, but their antisemitism is unacceptable, so for that, I will never vote for them.

This.
But people like to claim their wholesomeness rather than admit their racist views.

A concern for women’s rights, safety and dignity is ‘dramatic’ and ‘bonkers’? Ok then. 🙄

You might want to visit downtown LA and see how that has worked out

Personally. I cant be arsed with all the if you vote for this party you are this and that. I voted Labour all my life until 2010 and then I voted snp. Did I agree with all the snp policies. No. I'm no longer a party member and my mum left years ago

It's completely possible to vote for a party and not believe in everything they stand for - or no one would ever vote!!

Sorry for my typos! My post should say:

I like their policies in principle (welcoming refugees and immigrants, as per Zack Polanski’s conference speech last year), and I think Hannah Spencer will be a good MP for Gorton and Denton, but their antisemitism is unacceptable, so for that, I will never vote for them.

I don't vote for anyone- because Palestine

I'd rather go off of actual research than anecdotes

I don’t actually believe he will be leading the Green Party for very long if they get into power. He too will be flushed out along with Women’s rights.

I'm not a racist. I'll repeat that. I have a Palestinian friend - asylum seeker who fled Scotland because he was so scared of being sent back to Palestine and being killed by the IDF. Don't you sit and tell me "it depends" when I've told you I'm not a racist. You know nothing about me. Thankfully you never will.

Don't fling the word racist around like it's going out of fashion. It actually devalues the experiences of people who DO experience racist hate.

I do honestly believe that happened. And I heard an interview yesterday on Radio 4's Today programme in which the interviewer mentioned it, and mentioned how Polanski had "confirmed" a few days later that it worked - and Polanski didn’t deny it, which he surely would have done if it wasn’t true.

He’s a con-man.

Ok so you're just judging by what the media says rather than what he actually says himself

I have been reading the posts on this thread but I have not heard anyone explain how the Green Party is antisemitic. I know Polanski's reaction to the stabbings in Golders Green and about two women who were suspended that were running for the council. I do not know why so many feel that they are generally antisemitic?

😂

So you think what a politician says about himself is automatically the truth, and those who investigate his past and find something different are automatically liars? How naive!

Do you believe this about all politicians, or only the ones you like?

I think you’ve answered your question in your post. I think having a pattern of a specific behaviour - as we’ve seen with the routinely antisemitic behaviour in the Greens that you’ve just described - shows they are generally antisemitic. Any incident is one too many, but a pattern is clear evidence there is a wider problem. Do you not feel the same?

For me, the worst thing was the local election candidate Sabine Mairey’s post, where she posted a video about attacking a synagogue. I thought that was absolutely disgusting.