Tamsin Omond to stand against Green Party’s Bea Campbell Labour’s Glenda Jackson

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on the off chance anyone cares....

 

[steeplejack]

Nope.

 

[Riklet]

lol trans ally. Theyre so busy focusing on daft identity politics wheel of oppression they havent even managed to make more than a squeek about actual Green Shit.

 

[belboid]

They have to focus wider than just ‘actual green shit’ if they are to have any hope of getting over 6%. They’d be cretins not to.

 

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They have to focus wider than just ‘actual green shit’ if they are to have any hope of getting over 6%. They’d be cretins not to.

interesting (vaguely) news from Germany where the Greens are doing really well - they had a policy not to overdo the floods there as a climate change issue so as to be seen as a party with wider interests

Germany’s Greens cautious over linking floods to climate crisis

Party leaders hope public will draw its own conclusions from last week’s catastrophic floods

www.theguardian.com

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The strategic thinking rests on the hope that the electorate will draw its own connection between the increase of freak weather events and a climate crisis unfolding over the long term. Making the link explicit would open up the Greens to charges of politicising a catastrophe before the bodies of the dead have been recovered, and playing into its image as a Besserwisserpartei, a party of know-it-alls.

And although its “we talk about the weather” slogan may hit a nerve in 2021, in 1990, the year of German reunification, it played disastrously with the electorate. The Greens only maintained a presence in the Bundestag thanks to an alliance with ecological outfits in the former east.
Since Baerbock and Habeck took over the party leadership in 2018, the Greens have worked hard to come across a party that does not only talk about the weather, but also about Germany....

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graphic in the guardian just now - the state of british parliamentary politics

(token long-bailey in there)