Councillor McAsh defects to the Greens

[malumbu]

@first mate  just Google the Green's policies and AI should summarise.  For sustainable transport this includes more initiatives to get people out of their cars as you would expect.  I've always been broadly in favour of their environmental policies, although feel they should go further on culture change.

Some of their national policies are bonkers and/or unrealistic - as are most of Reform's.  Historically fringe parties could come up with nonsense, as they will never govern.  Of course whilst I don't expect that Polanski will ever be PM that other bloke could be.  Worrying times, particularly if the Greens split the centre/left vote.  It would be better if One Nation Tories could split the centre vote (and drag some of those on the right), but they don;t have a lot of influence in the current party.

One particularly bonkers policy was one element of the Greens who wanted us out of Europe, not because of Europe being pro market/capitalism but because we needed a recession, deindustrialise, so we would all go back to the middle ages.  Or something along those lines.  I lost some friends because of this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03y5trr#:~:text="Protectionism against developing countries%2C savage austerity in,the case for either remain or leave.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/eu-reform-green-brexit

[CPR Dave]

Ha ha ha!

Nigel Farage voted for that Green party. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16936634

They're all rats in the same sack.

[Insuflo]

So, private polling for Labour in London puts Labour and the Lib Dems with the same number of seats on Southwark Council come May. It’s not clear from this Guardian article (link below) if that will be all due to Labour losses or if the Lib Dems will actually make some gains in Southwark.

Either way, the Greens are set for a massive surge in seats across London, if the polling is correct.

Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London | Labour | The Guardian

[Sue]

On 03/03/2026 at 20:31, CPR Dave said:

Ha ha ha!

Nigel Farage voted for that Green party. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16936634

They're all rats in the same sack.

Are you sure?

[Suggsy]

19 hours ago, Insuflo said:

So, private polling for Labour in London puts Labour and the Lib Dems with the same number of seats on Southwark Council come May. It’s not clear from this Guardian article (link below) if that will be all due to Labour losses or if the Lib Dems will actually make some gains in Southwark.

Either way, the Greens are set for a massive surge in seats across London, if the polling is correct.

Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London | Labour | The Guardian

So Southwark in No Overall Control? Green / LD coalition?