AIBU to hope the greens do very well today?

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That’s it really. go Zack! 💚

How are local councils, even if they are majority Green going to implement any of this?

It's all built on lies and sand

I voted Green on the list today in Scotland. Very reluctantly. I'm not the biggest fan of Gillian McKay, if there had been a better alternative I would have gone for it

BTW. People shouting that people are anti semitic or racists - really aren't doing anyone any favours. It's possible to be supportive of Palestine without hating Jews.

People have the right to vote for who they want - without being branded nutters. Maybe if certain larger parties weren't doing such a shit job people wouldn't be turning to Greens in England (looking at you Labour).

I think Polanski is a bit of a popularity hunter but he's not alone in that in my view

Supporting a two state solution, being angre at a right wing government’s excesses against civilians are not anti semitic. However conflating Jews and Israel and subjecting them to anti semitic tropes and “globalise the intafada” is anti semitism.

When a party leader shows primary concern that the police were not nice enough to a terrorise carrying a knife and possibly an IED and then when he does post the required comment can only talk about “the attack” and avoid any mention of the victims being Jews and the attack being antisemitic then I think concerns about anti semitism from the Greens are fully justified. Its not an accident that most of the antisemites and loons kicked out of Labour went straight across to the Greens. Their predecessors did exactly the same when Kinnock kick Militant out of Labour - they all hot footed it across to the Greens/ecology party.

YANBU

They have some great policies and I’m hopeful they’ll get young people out voting. Like many I support Palestine and detest the actions of Israel. This doesn’t make me antisemitic. There is a very clear smear campaign at play which is worrying.

Zahra Sultana is still knocking around - she's currently having a Facebook spat with JK Rowling 🙄

I think Nigel and Zack share this opinion.

A smear campaign? So there haven't been multiple antisemitic comments made by their candidates?

Jesus, you must have been desperate. Scottish Greens are beyond lunacy. Even ZP can't be held responsible for them.

That is interesting about corporate donors - I wonder who does give to them? I was surprised that Zack's offensive share of a post was on X. I didn't think he would approve of Elon?

I have zero interest in Polanski. I'm not a fan of him. I voted Greens on the list today in Scotland because there was no other pro indy alternative that appealed to me

There have been comments further up saying that everyone who votes Green is an anti semitic racist. I'm none of these things. I don't think generalisations like that serve anyone well

This is what I thought! To rage people up that aren't fans of extremism.

Kemi Is definitely against women’s rights. She doesn’t agree with statutory maternity pay.

Except the Greens have morphed into antisemitic communists.

I didn’t say it did.
The OP was answering a follow up question about which Green policies she liked generally, and I added this one. HTH.

How did he get elected as their leader in the first place?

"Green" issues dont seem to get mentioned much these days or is it just the colour they like?

I doubt be approves of Elon but I imagine he wants to reach people, and many people are on X.

All party donations are available publicly online. Greens have a policy not to accept corporate donations whereas for example, other parties accept large donations from private healthcare companies, which makes me think the party will then be looking out for them, giving them contracts etc. I belive Green's largest donor to date is Vivienne Westwood.

I voted Plaid Cymru. Where does that place me on your intelligence scale?

Right.
What about less fashionable causes? How about China’s hold on Tibet or its genocide of the Uyghur? What’s his plan to confront China?

Well you have voted for a party that seems to have a major problem with antisemitic, racist members.

The Greens are basically communists. They have no grasp of economic reality.

Oh and according to ZP today, no country has a right to exist, so good luck with your separatist fantasy.

I voted Con to keep out the lunatic Greens.
My ideal vote would be SDP but they aren’t in my area.
I doubt I’ll ever vote Labour again.

SDP haven't existed in quite some time, so that's not surprising! 😄

Christ no! The greens don’t know what a woman is and will trample all over women’s rights. ZP is a complete charlatan.

As Caroline Lucas said, there are, sadly, anti-semites in every party. But it seems only left wing parties get the heat for it.

The Labour Party was founded in Trade Unionism to represent working class people, yet hasn't been identifiably Socialist since the 1970s. That didn't stop people handing them a thumping majority two years ago.

Helped by the tories imploding in a big way after battling Brexit and covid.

After 2 years Labour is now imploding big time so I reckon we are heading for years of coalition governments, heaven help us