https://leftfootforward.org/2019/12/greens-celebrate-increased-votes-despite-broken-vote-system/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:59:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://leftfootforward.org/2019/12/greens-celebrate-increased-votes-despite-broken-vote-system/#comment-1000662 Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:59:39 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=140445#comment-1000662 Isn’t it time for all of us who want to oppose the Tories to consider joining Labour? We’re not going to change the two party system for a decade at least, so why don’t we realistically accept the two party system and fight it from within? We need to create a Green, socially responsible, NON-IDEOLOGICAL Labour Party. Too many of us are living in the past where Labour meant “working class”. It’s time to talk to the whole non-Tory groups and find an acceptable way forward…

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2019/12/greens-celebrate-increased-votes-despite-broken-vote-system/#comment-1000631 Fri, 13 Dec 2019 17:22:20 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=140445#comment-1000631 As a membership secretary of a Green Party branch I am not in a mood to celebrate anything. Yes I am pleased that in general Green Party votes increased and I am also glad that we are having a steady trickle of new members. But there is much that I am despondent about. What a sickening election result! I know the media odds were stacked against Labour and they had made a mess of handling the antisemitic situation, but they are still so tribal. Not being prepared to co-operate in any way with other anti-tories, even opposing Caroline Lucas. They mainly brought this disaster on themselves. But will they ever learn? So many in the Labour Party remind me of dinosaurs. They don’t realise the political climate has changed. Labour majorities in the past relied heavily on Scottish successes. Those days have gone. To win a majority in England and Wales, and just as important keep it so that the Tories cannot destroy what has been built, as so often happens, electoral co-operation is essential. Going back to Caroline Lucas, I think it safe to say that no one did better than her in trying to halt the Tory dismantling of the welfare system. SO WHO MADE THE DECISION TO TRY TO DESTROY HER FIGHT AGAINST THE TORIES? I left the L.P. when Blair and Brown privatised London Underground. Even under J.C. I see nothing to make me want to return to the Labour Party with its antediluvian tribal arrogant ideas.

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2019/12/greens-celebrate-increased-votes-despite-broken-vote-system/#comment-1000564 Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:30:05 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=140445#comment-1000564 Our political system seems to be in very good robust health this morning.

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