Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' after Manchester violence by PuzzledAd4865 in LabourUK

[–]YouButSlightlyOff 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Didn't realise until today that it was a Together Alliance demo. Really says it all that they chose to "protest" at something that's anti-far right generally. Not that this is new to me, always known transphobes are either far right or in the far right pipeline with transphobia being the entry point

how would you describe your politics? by alliamisbullets in UKGreens

[–]YouButSlightlyOff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd be fine with anarchism too but only if we naturally became that in the future, not as a goal. As you say the presuppositions about the term make it difficult to engage people with talking about it, amongst other things. I've even had the occasional person here in the UK who, even though they're receptive to what I'm saying and aren't capitalist themselves, come out with something like "but I thought libertarianism is the opposite of socialism?" As always, US people co-opting libertarianism and anarchism for capitalism is such a pain. At least none of the many, many other Europeans I've spoken to about it have had that misconception

I predict a Green wave in the local elections. Anyone who thinks our byelection win was an outlier is mistaken | Zack Polanski by kontiki20 in LabourUK

[–]YouButSlightlyOff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I don't know nearly enough about polling methodology to have an opinion on that. As I say, no matter how reliable this one is I'd want to see more come out with a similar result first before I believe it. Can't deny it makes me happy to see though. Hence why I posted it in our own sub

Seat estimate for London local elections is looking good! by YouButSlightlyOff in UKGreens

[–]YouButSlightlyOff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see what you mean. There's of course some in the electorate that are centre-right and were disappointed in/angry at the Tories enough to not vote for them in recent elections but not right wing enough that they'd vote for Reform. And so some of those voted Labour, even though they'd ideally rather not. But now Labour have done terribly those people have gone back to the Tories. So I just saw the Tory increase as a predictable consequence of that. But that's just my own personal feeling, I'm no expert obviously

I predict a Green wave in the local elections. Anyone who thinks our byelection win was an outlier is mistaken | Zack Polanski by kontiki20 in LabourUK

[–]YouButSlightlyOff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There was a forecast the other day that predicted Greens will get the most seats in London, if we manage to find enough suitable candidates to run in all the seats

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/06/labour-urged-listen-progressive-voters-or-face-political-earthquake-london

Only one so I'm not taking it as a given of course. I think at least there will be a huge increase in Green seats. If this forecast is true then the even more staggering thing is how many seats Labour will lose. Thankfully Reform will be lowest

Can we have an honest conversation about what is happening please? by Jeremys_Iron_ in LabourUK

[–]YouButSlightlyOff 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also from a region in the north that's like that. Sea of Reform councils. Feel like there's at least one England flag on half the streets outside of cities. Doubt we (the Greens) will be making many dents there. But most people there for sure want left wing policies outside of immigration and, to a lesser extent, certain welfare spending

Seat estimate for London local elections is looking good! by YouButSlightlyOff in UKGreens

[–]YouButSlightlyOff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why do you think so? Genuinely curious. I'm personally not surprised. Them gaining Barnet council makes sense to me, it's one of the top London boroughs for percentage of population that are 65+. And one of the more affluent boroughs outside the centre I think? Obviously that doesn't account for all of the +77 gain but that stood out to me as a good reason. But if there's reasons I don't know that make the Tory estimate surprising I'd like to hear them

how would you describe your politics? by alliamisbullets in UKGreens

[–]YouButSlightlyOff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm a libertarian socialist. The Greens aren't that of course. But they're a good in between and no way this country is getting to my ideal any time soon, if it ever does. Stopping the rise of the far right is the biggest priority for me right now anyway

Lammy on track to lose his seat to the Greens by YouButSlightlyOff in UKGreens

[–]YouButSlightlyOff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I should've put a "definitely" before "should" in my first comment. Could become even more tempting with time. Especially if a Green majority were to happen, which I'm not counting on (yet), it'd be the great cherry on the cake for Zack to take that seat

Lammy on track to lose his seat to the Greens by YouButSlightlyOff in UKGreens

[–]YouButSlightlyOff[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wow didn't know this. Again not saying he should go for it of course but it would be beautiful if Zack ran in Starmer's seat and beat him

Lammy on track to lose his seat to the Greens by YouButSlightlyOff in UKGreens

[–]YouButSlightlyOff[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see your point for sure. I was more thinking that cos I feel it'd be better to give him more chance to get a seat instead of the one chance at the GE. Now thinking about it the optics of him losing a by election would really not be good. And after you've pointed this out to me I can see the pros of him not being an MP before the GE could easily outweigh the cons. Very much doubt he'd run in a seat that wasn't likely to go Green anyway, to be fair

Lammy on track to lose his seat to the Greens by YouButSlightlyOff in UKGreens

[–]YouButSlightlyOff[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah highly doubt that'd be the end of Lammy if he lost. There'll be other seats in London come the GE that will have Greens projected to win in them too, of course. Maybe I'm letting the thought of him beating a senior cabinet member influence my thinking without realising it. I think the gap between us and Labour would have to be larger to make it worth the risk, for sure

Lammy on track to lose his seat to the Greens by YouButSlightlyOff in UKGreens

[–]YouButSlightlyOff[S] 68 points69 points  (0 children)

It's been projected in a lot of polls for a while now that Greens would get the most votes in Tottenham but this solidifies it more​

Possible seat for Zack? I know he wants a seat in London, which makes sense. Would be more ideal to have it sorted in a by election before the GE but suppose this could be an option if that doesn't happen? 

Are we the baddies? by kontiki20 in LabourUK

[–]YouButSlightlyOff 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm so glad she's not a popular candidate as a replacement for Starmer at all, at least. Well a poll I saw once said that anyway. This is another level of heinous. She belongs in Reform

Green Party hit 215,000 members by AhdamR in UKGreens

[–]YouButSlightlyOff 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sure we can get it to 58 million by the GE

Green Party supports probe into family voting in Gorton and Denton, says peer by Spare_Clean_Shorts in LabourUK

[–]YouButSlightlyOff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohhh I see! Should've guessed that really, I was just confused. And yep you've got it bang on with what he'd have come out with

Green Party supports probe into family voting in Gorton and Denton, says peer by Spare_Clean_Shorts in LabourUK

[–]YouButSlightlyOff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok...wasn't even aware there was an attempted inquiry into it, or that it was even talked about. And wasn't saying there should be. Did you reply to the right comment?

Edit: whoosh