AIBU to hope the greens do very well today?

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That’s it really. go Zack! 💚

I can't abide the Green party, they have socialist principles, one of which is to abolish the Monarchy, no thanks, I'm a staunch royalist, always will be....🙂

Sorry. I am very innocent about politics. Can someone tell me what Zack polanski does for a living. I've only heard about boobs and the red cross. What did he do after that? How did he get to be leader of the greens if he isn't an MP? Why didn't they choose someone who was an MP? Why did they ditch their saving the planet credentials and turn to hating the Jews, people who work for a living and many others?

Good on them for that stance

He's a member of the London Assembly. You do know hes Jewish? Not sure whu you are saying they hate working people. They've proposed a tax on the very wealthy.

The very wealthy won’t be here. They are highly mobile.

He doesn’t seem to like Jewish people very much based on his comments.

Does he even practise or use it as a reason as to why you cannot question him when he says something odd.

Some very good questions, about which we can only theorise, but there are some worrying facts.

He is Jewish but has allowed his party to fill up with up with some horrendously anti semitic people and has managed to pretzel himself into taking an anti Jewish position on the topic of Israel.

A worrying number of his Green candidates have made shockingly anti semitic public communications (plus one young chap that I heard about today who was convicted of attacking a teenage girl from behind with a claw hammer - he is now elected).

He is presiding over a party with seemingly irreconcilable priorities- the huge LGBTQ influence that is tearing it apart (and costing £hundreds of thousands in discrimination cases against them) and the Islamic side where the deputy leader is a staunch Muslim whose wife wears full niqab, he made approving noises after the October 7th massacre in Israel by Hamas and is visibly uncomfortable with the LGBTQ side (he was stood by stony faced at the celebrations of the trans identifying male who won a seat for the Greens).

ZP comes across like a not very bright opportunist whose politics is at Student Union level. He may or may not realise how the party is being utilised to gain power for the Islamists which is not good for British citizens and those who uphold Western values. He is a dangerous fool.

Unlike the Reform councillor who has just been suspended for saying Nigerians should be melted down to fill potholes?

I’m not sure why you think that the suspension of a candidate for a different party is anything to do with Zack p?

He allowed a Green candidate to continue campaigning ever after she was arrested for making anti semitic posts. Then there are all the other Green candidates:elected councillors who have among them criminal convictions for serious violence (attacking teenage girl from behind with a claw hammer) or environmental damage or just arrests for ‘plain old’ anti semitism. Suggesting that Israel was burning babies or harvesting Palestinian organs or faking the Golders Green arson attack. I could go on if that’s where you want to take this but it shouldn’t be a race to the bottom.

Zack Polanski is leading a party with serious issues.

This thread is about the Greens. Feel free to start your own about Reform.

Green candidates:elected councillors who have among them criminal convictions for serious violence (attacking teenage girl from behind with a claw hammer)

I can’t find anything online about the claw hammer attack?

That was beyond vile. What a nasty stupid man.

No I won't. I'm just pointing out that Reform are awful..... But the Greens. And I'm not a Green member

Oh and there's more. There's the ones that said Pakistani people should be shot. The one that battered his gf. Six have been suspended in the last 24 hours

Oh god. I’m so glad they’ve been suspended, but how did they ever get to stand as candidates?? The vetting processes must be useless - or maybe there aren’t any?

Palestinians have been dying for years. Very publicly. So if anyone wants to come at me with the you go and start your own thread - on you go. What has happened in Palestine has been genocide. You might want to close your eyes to it. But I won't. Particularly as I have Palestinian friends who were asylum seekers.

I've already been called a racist and an anti semite on here by someone on another thread who was laughing at suicide. Oh no. Im not going to line up with putting the boot into the Greens just because it's fashionable and we have actual racists in positions of power now

It's staggering what people believe and repeat. And I'm no fan of Polanski

What does the fate of the Palestinians have to do with local elections in the UK?

Whatever is happening in any other country has nothing whatsoever to do with local elections in the UK. I fail to see why it has to be mentioned in the manifesto.

If you say a woman can have a penis you truly hate women.

If they want Britain to be a Republic, the only constructive suggestion I can make is that they (and all antimonarchists) pack their bags and go live in one, Outer Mongolia should be pleasant this time of year !........😁