Comment on 'We're the future, don't wait around for Corbyn and Sultana': Inside the Green Party conference

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

One of the few sensible comments I’ve seen in this community.

The left is obsessed with splintering over the slightest little thing. Time and time again it feels like they’d rather be confined to the political wilderness but pat themselves on the back for feeling ideologically pure than accepting compromises but having a real shot at being in a position where they can make positive change.

Bluntly, there has been a lot from the Green party over the years that I really don’t like. From being extremely into NIMBYism (even to the extent where they end up being against green energy developments), some policies (which have now been dropped) that went against gender equality, and some IMO insane and isolationist anti-NATO nonsense at a time when the world is becoming more hostile and militaristic (some of that has been dropped).

But I’d vote for them in a heartbeat if the alternative is the Tory-Reform uniparty. It angers me somewhat that Corbyn and Sultana, alongside the Muslim independents they’ve allied with, are trying to make a new party that only further splits the vote and hands more power to their adversaries who’ve openly become a UK MAGA party. They could’ve joined the Greens and strengthened the left vote, but they instead chose to weaken it.

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