Greens in London- I must have been living under a rock!

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I have been quite busy at work recently so not following local politics that closely, but I had been reading the leaflets through my door and got the impression that my local council was a simple Labour v Lib Dem race.

I’m in a London Borough with a long history of Labour control. Thought it was time for a change, duly cast my votes for the Lib Dems only to wake up today and find that the Greens had come within 100 votes of unseating Labour in my ward, they have won loads of other wards, Labour has lost control and it’s now NOC with Greens second biggest party.
And the borough next door has a Green mayor and there are Green controlled councils all over London!

The Lib Dems are nowhere to be seen.

(I am ignoring Tories and Reform as they are totally irrelevant round here). How did I not see this coming?

I have nothing against the Greens, would possibly have voted for them if I’d realised they were a viable second party.

Gen Z voting.

OMG I must be young 💅🏼

Well... that or you went along to those lovely 'river to the sea' terrorist marches? Or at the very least sympathised with them

That's so simplistic.

Haven't you ever heard of women saying things that are anti women's rights?

Don't you think people can ever be racist towards their own race or culture?

Polanski may or may not be antisemitic himself. But he has certainly tolerated antisemitic comments from lots of Green candidates. Two of them were arrested days before the local elections for starters and there are loads more examples.

Dunno. Maybe try reading the posts properly and ask the PP who suggested they would.

@UhOhRatPoo if you are starting from zero it's hard to answer the question

I would suggest listening to the speeches made by Green candidates who won

Ask yourself to whom they are appealing, and then extrapolate that out to the type of person who would vote for those policies - that might be complicated if you haven't been following politics

there are a lot of people around who are in favour of policies that link to communism

There are a lot of people who believe there is an endless pot of other people's money that you can tap into - that is not limited to Labour

Have a look at their manifesto

Have a look at what their leader and their deputy leader say

where do you get most of your information? With all the party leaders on social media, it's now very easy to get their own policies in their own words. There's no need to rely on a third-party to package it up for you - it's very handy in that way.

I would never vote for them by the way! you do know that they are not the party of the environment anymore, I hope?

They don’t stand up for them. They use sectarian strategies to appeal to them.

He is a Trojan horse for a party which has hijacked what used to be the Green Party. It is now some peculiar mix of Socialist Worker party and some sort of Islamic party.
They will use the very odd Zak P until they feel he has outlasted his usefulness and will be dropped like a hot potato. Ditto the white lady who won as MP recently.

No one’s voting for Zack because he wasn’t standing in the election.

As to antisemites in the party, you need look no further than his deputy, Mothin Ali.

That was in reply to @Tigerbalmshark

I don’t really know about the geography but weren’t the Muslims told/asked to vote green?

My council ward has a higher white British proportion than many other areas of the borough, with a higher proportion of older people than average and our labour councillors have lost their seats to the Green Party. Im 68 and have previously been a member of the Labour Party, but my local council has done an appalling job in recent years, and has completely failed to address some local issues which are very important to residents in the ward. The polls showed that the Lib Dems and Conservatives had very little support in the ward so I voted Green because they were the only party with any chance of getting rid of our local councillors, and Im sure many other people in my ward have done the same. I will probably still vote labour in the next london mayor election but will consider all the party manifestos carefully before the next general election. I did vote Green in the last general election because of their stance on Gaza, but that obviously had no bearing on the local elections.

Green candidate called Jewish people cockroaches as depth of party’s anti-Semitism problem revealed

The arrest of two Green Party candidates over anti-Semitism allegations is “just the tip of the iceberg”, opponents have claimed.

Saiqa Ali and Sabine Mairey, who are both standing for the party in central London, were detained by Met Police officers on Thursday morning.

But The Telegraph can reveal almost 20 Green candidates at next week’s local elections have posted offensive material, with anti-Israel sentiment running deep in the party under Zack Polanski, its leader.

They include one who referred to Jewish people as “cockroaches”, while others expressed support for Palestine Action, a banned terror group.

Mothin Ali, the party’s deputy leader, has previously caused controversy by suggesting Hamas were “indigenous people defending themselves” on Oct 7

Joe Belcher, who is running in the same ward as Mr Ateeq, was previously dropped as a Green parliamentary candidate for claiming “the leaders of Israel and Gaza conspired” to carry out the Oct 7 attack “for financial gain".

Hau-Yu Tam, a councillor in Lewisham, south-east London, reportedly shared a post calling Zionism “the Nazism of our time”, which has since been deleted.

She has also urged her council to boycott Israeli goods and backed a barrister representing Hamas in its effort to overturn its proscription as a terrorist organisation in the UK.

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/01/green-party-candidate-jewish-people-cockroaches/

This. It's not about diversity and inclusion, it's about division and exclusion.

So, isn't London already a sectarian city, as well as Birmingham. The greens don't have to work that hard. According to the guardian, the express and other sources, more Muslims are now voting green. The greens have always been two faced. Now they've set themselves up as the opposite of reform. Reform appeal to voters for one thing - they promise to save our overly full country by cracking down on immigration. That's why so many people voted for them. Even though farage said he might privatise the nhs, they still voted for him. That says everything.

i agree. I find the Greens as scary as Reform actually.

What was it I read on another thread? "Two cheeks of the same arse"!

Are all reform voters racists? Not everyone voting Green will be anti-semitic 🙄
Do they have anti-Semitic candidates absolutely, but not everyone in Hackney is!

Fucking hell

Nadia Sawalha's husband, Mark Adderley, has been elected as a Green Councillor. It's worthwhile having a look at what he posted online.
I thought he'd been suspended by the party?

@MrsEmmelineLucas i'm puzzled by that
I also thought he been suspended

For some reason, fucking lunatic Nadia Sawalha keeps popping up in my IG banging on about her saintly husband. The comments are terrifying, apparently ZP is a Zionist for suspending him from the Greens.

I think a couple of the suspended candidates ended up being elected.

Deputy leader Rachel Millward was asked about that on Question Time and didn’t seem to know what was going on. She’s another useful idiot.

That stuff he posted was toxic. I can't believe he's a councillor.

Yes. You’ve definitely been under a rock op!