Should the Green Party court Corbyn

Jedi boro

Jedi boro

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For me he’s always been more in tune with the Green Party than classic labour ( especially his views on defence spending) , so are you surprised they have tried to bring him on board and seize on the momentum or err momentum.
 
Nah, any party knows if they endorse him they'll immediately become targets themselves. Its not right, but its what'll happen.
 
I think the Green Party would gain more support than they'd lose by getting Corbyn on board. It seems like a good move to me.

The concern if they did, is it would split the Labour vote and Tories could ultimately benefit.
 
B_G said:
The concern if they did, is it would split the Labour vote and Tories could ultimately benefit.
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I think this would be a good plan for the left - to try and emulate the effect UKIP have had on the tories.

Starmer can move Labour further and further right at the moment with absolutely no concern as there's no party threatening to take votes to his left in England. If Greens or some other outfit became much more of a force, that wouldn't be so.
 
Historically the Green Party has never been overtly socialist so I doubt Corbyn would entertain the idea even if the Greens did.

They're essentially a Liberal pressure group. Equivalent to UKIP for the Tories.

Their inroads to socialist ideas come where they intersect with the environmental message but they are fundamentally left leaning libertarians.
 
Jedi boro said:
For me he’s always been more in tune with the Green Party than classic labour ( especially his views on defence spending) , so are you surprised they have tried to bring him on board and seize on the momentum or err momentum.
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What's classic Labour certainly not Starmerism.
 
I am very pro-Corbyn's policies and I think he is honest, has integrity and argues the case for what he believes in. I also fully recognise that he is far too easy a target to successfully lead a party to win an election. Someone with a cleaner history but his politics would clean up. I thought Starmer could be that person but sadly he is far closer to Boris than Corbyn.
 
Nano said:
I am very pro-Corbyn's policies and I think he is honest, has integrity and argues the case for what he believes in. I also fully recognise that he is far too easy a target to successfully lead a party to win an election. Someone with a cleaner history but his politics would clean up. I thought Starmer could be that person but sadly he is far closer to Boris than Corbyn.
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The problem with that is where do you find someone like Corbyn without the baggage that makes him what he is.

Starmer was essentially a blank slate politically. He doesn't have any ties to a socialist ideology which is a large part of the problem.

Anyone with any real leftist credentials will have 'dirt' that the right wing press will highlight.
 
There are moves to create a new left wing party which would I imagine gain traction if labour won the next election but were too right wing for us leftists
 
A part of me does wish that Corbyn would start a new left wing party and take the few decent labour MPs that we currently have with him. It won't happen though.
 
B_G said:
I think the Green Party would gain more support than they'd lose by getting Corbyn on board. It seems like a good move to me.

The concern if they did, is it would split the Labour vote and Tories could ultimately benefit.
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Maybe in Islington North but I can't see it translating over the country as a whole. I think people overestimate the swing that Corbyn would have nationally in an election.
 
No, he'll bring too much history & division with him - he's marmite..
He could stand as an independent & then vote with his conscious on policy.. if he wins his seat.
 
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