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  • The problem is Greens may not be able to make inroards in working areas. They’re largely popular in well off areas and it’s where they used to target. It could be that both parties target their bread and butter and don’t directly run against each other and work together.

    How true this is will become more concrete in the local elections next year. We may need both to oppose fascism. Even if YP is deeply flawed and Greens have less baggage.

    Depends whether you care more about socialist outcomes or validating that your “intuition was right”.







  • That’s the thing, you’re always hearing her words and thinking it’s in good faith and assuming JC is in bad faith. Politician’s playing people since the start of time. She’s building a faction to counter JCs influence. There is 5 independent MPs and JC, vs her, she’s outnumbered but wants even influence. So she’s trying to remove MPs power and move it to members to give her numbers. As JC is massively popular, she’s aligning with folk and bringing more folk in including from different parties.

    That is a rule in every party though. Green’s, Lib Dems, Conservative, SNP etc. Otherwise people can come in and subvert things for purposes negative to the party. Tories can flood the party to vote weak things through. Those that choose to be exclusive care about things, as they aren’t planning to run off when it all goes down in flames.

    Zarah building a faction. She could have build her own party, but JC has followers and she wants that, so she’s playing power games. If it goes wrong, she can leave and join Greens or Liberals etc. Even Labour would take her back to kill off the project.

    The manoeuvering is not to favour Your Party. If it isn’t for the parties interests, but hers, it is bad faith. Same as when she unilaterally announced, and uniliterally kicked off members system. She is not a team player. She cannot fathom that folk would disagree with her, so shell try to force it through by attrition and bringing in numbers.





  • That last sentence wasn’t really true though. Many do not. Tony Benn was opposed to it and the effects it had on jobs. Labour were at one point against it.

    For example, subsidies are prevented under EU terms and deemed as state aid and uncompetitive. Many govs were shackled from helping their industry and the effects were wide ranging.

    I voted Remain, but I have many good socialist friends that were for Leave. Assuming a right wing Brexit was the only option is shallow and lacking in imagination. Unfortunately, Greens, SNP and Lib Dems supported the election before the question of Brexit was resolved and we got a Tory hard Brexit.

    Zarah has pissed off more people in the formation process, and acted uniliterally, but dunking on JC was always more fun for Liberals/Soc Dems.

    Jeremy is a stubborn democrat that saw the Labour party get corrupted in real time, sitting through decades of it. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a view what to avoid and how to embed democracy and trade unionism into it to ensure it cannot get subverted the same way the Labour party did.