What would it take to vote for the Green Party? (If you don’t already!!)

[Redkamishibai]

I’m just learning about the Green Party and forming my own view of it. I can see some quite big changes they would need to capture my vote but I wondered what other people thought? Would your children encourage you to vote green and if they did would you follow their encouragement?

For them to be vegan. You can't preach green if you're destroying the planet by eating meat.

I find them more hypocritical that other parties for this reason.

Would love to vote Green, but not until they get realistic about immigration.

Ex-Green Party member and voter here. I parted company with them as their policies moved away from environment and into pie in the sky social policies. I know they needed to develop beyond being a single issue party but I just didn't align with their ideas.

That was a few years before the anti-women bullshit. I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole now. Nor the LibDems. It makes it very difficult to chose who to vote for.

They were always a bit too far to the left for me, but I would have considered them at a local level.

Then I found out that in 2016 they divided people into 'men' and 'non-men'. They do not know what a woman is, they do not understand the need for women's sex-based rights and they have no interest in learning.

They therefore have no chance of getting this woman's vote.

I have always voted for them in the past. Environmental issues are one of my two biggest concerns, and change needs to happen at governmental level rather just than in my shopping basket.

You'll easily guess what the second big concern is, and why I no longer vote green. They showed they have lost all connection with reality in failing to manage the Challinor situation better. You can't have a shower like that in any position of power.

I used to be a member of the Green Party. I still agree with many of their policies.

I also agree that we need more MPs like Caroline Lucas, who challenge our political system, and our weird, antiquated parliament. Why can’t the HoC use quick, accurate electronic voting, instead of making MPs waste many minutes lining up to pass through lobbies? And if Caroline is to be believed, there are occasions when MPs are physically shoved through, protesting that they didn’t want to vote that way. Too late...

I’m afraid it was the Challenor scandal that made me lose faith in the Green Party. And referring to women as “non men” was insane. Did the party also refer to men as “non women”. No of course they didn’t!

So this woman didn’t bother to renew her membership.

Understand human biology and I might think about it.

sensible economic policies - I was up for voting for them last election as I believe it's time to tear up some mainstream things for the environment (and labour, the tories, the SNP, the Lib Dems etc) are not doing anywhere near enough) and bear some costs but the manifesto wanted to borrow ALL the money needed for their plans and that was nuts.

I also don't like the 'non men' anti-women stuff.

I have previously voted for then in Scottish Parliament elections but will never do so again. Have a read of an article where they try to explain what a woman is and ask yourself if you would want any of them in power.

I've just had a look at their policies and they believe in legalising brothels and that sex work is a valid choice, ignoring the fact that the Nordic model is not the panacea that people think it is.

One policy i would like to see is a proper, affordable public transport network. I'm sure I'm like a lot of people in that I find running a car is cheaper and more reliable than public transport. The return bus fare from my village to the town 6 miles away is £6.

Ex GP officer,local campaign manager etc.

The misogyny runs through both national and local policy and practice and could not put my name to supporting them in light of incidents I was involved with at local level.
This was before the Challenor debacle and the move to non women. I think the majority of rational women left the local branch and got out of the way leaving the men to feck themselves over.
It wasn't a pretty sight

@borntobequiet

For them to understand human biology.

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