AIBU to hope the greens do very well today?

[ForGreenHiker]

That’s it really. go Zack! 💚

Well, the polls suggest they are the parties most likely to make gains (other than the odd LibDems), but I guess we will need to wait and see...

As a woman, the Greens getting any kind of power is very scary.

Do you think Reform is an anti-Muslim party as many claim it is (including the Greens)?

Gosh, I hope it's not support for the Greens nationwide. That would truly horrify me.

Again, you don't seem to understand what legalisation means. It does not mean unregulated and freely available. Firearms are legal in the UK, but you cannot buy one no questions asked at the corner shop.

From the Green Party's own website:

"So cannabis might be available for adults to buy over the counter from licenced retailers, but substances such as heroin would be available only on prescription after assessment and with medical intervention."

The drugs that are commonly used as date rape drugs: GHB, ketamine, rohypnol etc would not, under any circumstances, be freely available under the proposed policy.

I've voted Labour as our local councillors have done a pretty good job - not too sure I would vote the same way in a general election. I wouldn't vote Green - I know the candidate personally and I don't agree with his views on things that are important to me.

Absolutely not if you hate this country.

I mean, in reality, due to statutory responsibilities that councils have, the only thing on that list your Green councillor will be able to influence is SEND spending. And that's already out of control.

Noone has licences for hypnotherapy, it's not a licensed profession. He didn't have full membership of a voluntary body, he did have membership. I'm explicitly allowed to say I am a member of my professional body, I'm not yet a full (chartered) member.

Several former employees of the Red Cross have come out and said he absolutely compared events for them, including delivering detailed speeches on their work. This was a regular and voluntary thing. The issues appear to be 1) the wording used sounds like it was a formal thing 2) the red cross explicitly don't want to be tied to any political party.

I'm not a ZP fan but I think the media narrative is deeply dishonest. Saying you're a member of a body and not disclosing the type of membership- for a profession that is in no way regulated and for which he had typical qualifications- is not really newsworthy compared to other politicians issues. How much time have the Times dedicated to this versus other more serious breaches. Add in that 4 papers have printed cartoons of ZP with a large hooked nose and it's a pattern.

I'm not defending the 30 candidates under investigation for antisemitism but I think it's a governance failure and fixable. There are professional services that do social media checks. I think at this point every party should be using them.

Would you then support the cannabis being heavily taxed to pay for dealing with the psychosis it causes?

I would much rather they prevail than Reform, but that's not saying much.

I hope they do very badly forever. Their leader is an odious conman and they stink of antisemitism.

Their leader ZP is Jewish though and called a lot of antisemitism out.

Zp doesnt seem to like Jews very much. Telling them its perceived threat of harm just before that awful stabbing. Saying that the police went too far. In the US that man would be dead.

they are utter loons, hate women, are antisemetic & are very very regressive.
ZP is an utter show of a person. Dreadful man.
i can't imagine why anyone would vote for him, let alone women.
I hope they do as poorly as possible.

30 candicates being investigated for AS. Do you see a pattern here.

And Open Borders... what could possibly go wrong. Still the billionaires will pay for them (except you twat - they will have left the country!)

I hope they do well too, OP.

I think they have made islamaphobic statements. Farage has said "Muslims don't share our values ", as if by being part of a religion people lose all autonomy and individuality. Other spokespeople have said worse.

Like the Greens, they've had extremist candidates (one who argued for "returning the fire" on "islamists" during festivals. But again they are a small party growing quickly so this could just be a governance issue.

I imagine the Greens will expect the nasty rich people to pay for everything. So the cannabis won't be taxed, it will be handed out like sweets on the NHS which will become the biggest organisation ever known to man in terms of spending.

I think county councils have a lot of control over the things that they have listed - particularly the environmental and green spaces issues.

They had some power in Scotland, and it was indeed very scary

Yes, just as I support alcohol and tobacco being heavily taxed.

So if Reform are 'islamophobic' (stupid word made up by an extremist Muslim group), and they have Muslim people in senior positions (Zia Yusuf, Laila Cunningham) - is it fair to say that ZP doesn't get a get out of antisemitism jail free card because he's Jewish? As OP suggested.