The Green Party just made Keir Starmer yesterday's man and beat Farage's Reform, for good measure.

@whowasthatmaskedman A lot. It's a genuinely left social-democratic party. All the policies are available online.

@Burnley123 OK. But as any good Capitalist will tell you, you cant spend money you dont have. Everything has to be paid for. And historically there is more "Everything" than there is money to pay for it.. And you cant tax people like you used to or they take their money and move..😷
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@Northwest Its a fair question.

Yes, five MPs is nothing to write home about but several important caveats apply.

1) 5 is the most the Green Party has ever had.
2) The Green Party is polling almost level with Labour nationally.
3) Gorton and Denton wasa Labour 'safe' seat and 127 on the Green target list. Thought borderline unwinnable.
4) The Starmer Labour government has performed so poorly and pissed off its progressive base sooooo much that its one remaining credible argument was 'vote for us to keep out Farage because nobody else can win.' Now they can.

So this matters, nationally as well as locally. It also means that the Overton Window in this country now has a national force pushing it leftwards.

@CountScrofula Exactly that. The Labour Party's base is collapsing. The story that the media wants to tell is that the white working class is going to Reform. Some of that is true, but it's massively exaggerated because most Reform voters are ex-Tories. Amongst other things, a Green win in a northern working-class city is extremely narrative-busting and in a very good way.

I also don't think the Labour Party has a candidate who can really improve much on Starmer. Andy Burnham was the one guy who might have done it, but they wanted to protect their Blairite clique by keeping him out of Parliament. So they stopped him from standing in Gorton and Denton. Brilliant. Fuck those guys.

@CountScrofula That is true. I can't get carried away because Reform is still top of the polls (their surprisingly poor performance here notwithstanding), the country is very anti-migrant. One of the reasons I joined the Greens is that they are unashamed to be pro-migrant.

When I joined the party five months ago, I didn't realise what was about to happen in the city I live. Labour threw the kitchen sink at the campaign too and used the massive infrastructure and loads of dishonest arguments. We had an army of canvassers, though.