Would or will you vote Green if it was the only way to change a Council that has traditionally been Labour?

[IwantToRetire]

That's the situation in my council area.

Not going to list issues in my area as maybe a bit identifying, but in terms of local issues they have lost the plot.

I am not a member of or ever been a supporter of any political party.

I usually just vote for a local independent candidate, but as the suggestion is the Greens could get in, should I vote for them to get Labour out, when I despise their treatment of women.

These guys in Sheffield did advertise, but then Charlie Downes went on X and said this was fake news. As far as I've been able to discover, they're former Reform members who went to Advance last year and then to Restore. A bunch of people forming Restore branches fit that profile.

They seem to be bona fide members to me, and the only explanation I have for Charlie throwing them under the bus is that he's trying to appease Restore's very different online fanbase, most of whom are American and/or too young to remember when the BNP had its whites-only membership policy ruled illegal.

Hypnoboobs"s new press officer spews vile anti-Semitic hate over social media and denies the (documented) rapes and other sexualised violence that took place on Oct 7.
https://theantisemitismfiles.substack.com/p/the-antisemitic-oct-7-rape-denialism
The Mail reported the same story.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15602697/Green-Party-spin-doctor-denies-women-raped-October-7-attacks.html

I sympathise. This is my situation. The behaviour of Labour Councillors has been so bad. Not sure if it is complacency or the fact that far from traditional Labour values they think "ordinary" people are just an irritant to them ingratiating themselves with richer incomers.

And not clear when Labour's policies about women's sex based rights are no better than the Greens, why anyone thinks local residents should have their rights as residents disregarded.

If getting rid of Labour is enough of a shakeup for the Town Hall to actually remember it is there for its rate payers not for local politicians to indulge their vanity projects (many of which are the same as the Greens).

The only real difference is probably the public position of Labour on Gaza as opposed to what members think, and the Green's public position.

@IwantToRetireI agree, and the stance on Gaza is something that I feel passionately about. It’s the reason why I couldn’t bring myself to vote labour at the last General Election.

Absolutely batshit.

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