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.

Absolutely.

Interesting… something a journalist could perhaps investigate. Too much anxiety to do a day’s work but fine to be a councillor with all the canvassing and interacting with the public…

Having said that, there have been ongoing smallscale demos against sales to KSA and in support of Yemenis, particularly around the height of the bombing of Sallaa (sp?) A quick google search shows there are a couple of UK-based organisations who do protest against the government and BAe.

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/typhoon-plane-taken-parliament-protest-uks-arming-saudi-arabia/

Thanks, yes - fortunately there are people raising awareness and protesting about this and other conflicts. Obviously nowhere near on the scale of the Palestinian ones and unlikely to be a platform for any kind of election.

Totally agree!