The Greens have a new populist leader. Reform is a populist party. Badenoch would be a populist if she could stand up without falling down and Corbyn's new party is populist.
Could that be Starmer's problem? He's not a populist? He actually wants to govern, to address and solve problems and improve the lot of the country and citizens?
But that's not what the people want.....?
Let ne translate:
GPEW has a leader energetically promoting existing policies and people have noticed.
Reform are fascist.
These Tories are fascist.
Starmer apes fascist tropes, but is incoherent and chaotic. Who knows what he really believes, but the damage is done regardless.
Labour has an Env Sec who is serious about climate change. A serious Green leader would engage with-and support- Miliband to get Green policies adopted by the government.
Instead we have a man who convinced people he could hypnotise their breasts bigger and is obviously a salesman at heart, and who has already said he would lead as a populist, is in fact a populist. And the green opportunity is lost.
That's funny. See, I know Ed M a little., back when he was Old Labour. Nice enough guy, but never a green. In any case, Starmer runs the show. A serious govt would decouple energy pricing from gas, abandon this infatuation with AI, etc.
Fundamentally, Labour never wants to share power and mistakes Greens for Friends of the Earth.
Oh and its betrayal of human rights is abhorrent.
I've met Ed on party business. He always seemed v keen on addressing climate change. And as I say, if the Greens were serious they would be looking to cooperation on their key policies.
But the populist approach of the current leadership means we all lose out.
If Labour were serious about climate change they wouldn't be building runways.
I don't even know what you mean by cooperation. With what.
And you fail to realise that justice, equality and human rights have always been core Green issues, and Labour's failings here are as lamentable as on the environment.
From energy pricing to potable water, these are inextricable: there is no environmental justice without social justice, as Greens have argued for decades.
@iaruffell
If the Greens were serious about climate change, what would they be doing?
They would be looking to influence government policy.
@AlexGallagher if Labour were serious, we wouldn't need to!
But this is vacuous. There are plenty of environmental NGOs that Labour can happily ignore.
As political parties, Greens seek power to do things Labour will not, and secondarily force them to pay attention by posing a political threat. The latter appears to be working, or else you would be ignoring us.
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