YES!!!
Not only did the Greens win, they trounced them. Over a 10% gap between them (40.69) and Reform (28.73) with Labour on 25.44 (down from 50.75%).
Will this be goodbye Starmer? (I suspect they'll keep him around for the May elections as they know the writing's in n the wall an£ a new leader won't fix things in time... But there might be some Gov resignations)
But, in the meantime happy dance of happy
So. Reform are complaining about the Greens "cheating" by, errr, *checks notes* reaching out to voters in language they understand...
Compare and contrast...
Starmer just describes Green as "extremes" on their drug policy, Polanski actually talks about harm reduction... Starmer has absolutely zero awareness of why he is hated by large swathes of the electorate and why he lost...
Zack #Polanski is also making a lot of sense on the idea that the public are more intelligent, more connected than #Starmer gives them credit for... "Where are your Red Lines?" is a question I have been asking for a long, long, time...
I am not quite ready to join them - I have major concerns about how well they'll be able to handle the conflict between National ("Infrastructure projects must go somewhere...") and Local ("...but not here")
But they are the only party at least speaking my (political) language
Ermmm.... Kemi Badenoch's statement is "How dare Muslims feel let down and vote for someone not attacking them constantly. And how dare you reject our transphobe. And Starmer is bad and should go." It's actually a very similar analysis to Starmer's and Reform's from what I can tell... which is hardly a surprise.
#Starmer has written to Labour MPs and is suggesting that the Greens won because George Galloway endorsed them... I haven't been following particularly closely, but I think I would have heard of that... According to Wikipedia (not perfect, I know, but again, I would expect them to pick up on it) -
* Corbyn and Sultana
* Morning Star and Socialist Worker (booo)
* The Muslim Vote
* Salma Yaqoob (former Respect which was Galloway)
It appears to be that his party didn't stand anyone in the constituency...
And that hugely significant decision was (very silently) trumpeted non-stop by the Greens as an endorsement for them..?
Anything but admit people like what the Greens are saying...
Oh, and their extremist drugs policies are evil and bad too...
I had to go through several articles to find out how on earth Galloway was linked at all to this election by the way - it was totally insignificant...
@penwing
the workers party stood back from the election fairly early on. but to suggest george galloway's endorsement is worth 4,000 votes is a stretch worthy of mr tickle.
and if such an endorsement is worth 4,000 votes what may i ask is starmer doing to earn that endorsement?
penwing (they/them)
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