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What do you think about the Green Party?
This new bloke they've got in as co-leader seems very Thick of It, they keep saying the words "local people" over and over again and ultimately if they hated the Tories so much they should probably do the honourable thing and fuck off forever, yeah? Yeah?
lots of people on here
Became members a while back but then Corbyn came along
What do you think about Corbyn, Smee?
seems nice
Smee's nice
The green party seems to have just realised this and now wants to hold hands
I'm liking this Progressive Alliance chat also
whereby it's proposed that Labour coalesces in marginals with whichever left wing party is the most likely to win it.
Quite enjoying the way that Green Members thoughts aren't really considered within this. Y'know as political party Members who have their own politics and have a vision for the party they belong to etc.
At journo school one of the golden rules
was that we could never use the phrase "local people", since local is meaningless without context and probably not relevant to most readers, and people is so bland and generic.
We couldn't use "up in arms" either.
people is to bland
Did you go for humans instead
hard working regional humans
local people up in arms over journo restrictions
Here you go
"After graduating from the London School of Economics in 1994, Bartley worked at the UK Parliament as a researcher and parliamentary assistant for a number of years, and was part of John Major's campaign team in the 1995 Conservative Party leadership election against John Redwood."
I know there are almost certainly some great people in the party, but it's about as pointless as the Women's Equality Party. In particular, neither party seem to have much (if any) of a basis in class politics.
Yeah just saw some footage of him arguing with Cameron sat next to a child in a wheelchair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ol23MmKDWI
If you think that smaller/`single issue` parties are pointless
I refer you to UKIP and the EU Referendum result.
Scout to thread
I'm a member.
Because I objected to the pre-2015 election push to concentrate on only the main three parties and UKIP Fascists.
There are not a credible party to imagine in power because we don't accept radical ideas and notions as being plausible. But that's fine, in our current, First Past the Post system the point is for them to apply pressure to other parties because they threaten votes away from them.
I find it highly unlikely the Tories and Labour would have embraced so many green political notions without a clear lobbying front from places like the Green Party. So in that sense I think they have already achieved a lot.
One day we might be PR voting and it will be important.
Probably not all down to the greens tbh man
the green parties best policies are from veteran socialists who left new labour (and maybe going back now, dunno)
Well, we can all agree with the title of your post
Didn't read the rest of it.
i tend to vote for the NI Green Party
cos they've been making good headway in my constituency and are one of the most sensible rational voices in an Assembly full of cunts.
there was a Green Party guy on Any Questions last week
he sounded a bit like the Godfather, but said some good stuff.
Unelectable
Vote corbzilla
limitations on green party power are nothing to do with their politics but due to our use of first past the post
however they can still exert influence and help to pull the movement to the left, in the same way UKIP just changed the nation's history with one mp
No, not in the same way as UKIP at all
I voted green for the 1st time last election
As I live in Caroline Lucas' constituency, she actually seems like a decent MP and stood a chance of being reelected.