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Why don't these parties join the Greens?

Sure, they'd have to drop some of their toxic old "characters", but better prospects electorally, surely?

I suppose there is a war on, which normally helps the PM, but that's a fairly good show for the Tories. Doesn't suggest to me they're fucked in red wall seats. Smaller fall than Old Bexley and Sidcup.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 11:50 am Why don't these parties join the Greens?

Sure, they'd have to drop some of their toxic old "characters", but better prospects electorally, surely?

Haven't you learned yet? Electability comes a very poor second to ideological purity. Joining the Greens would mean having to compromise, and that's a word they can't spell.

Obviously

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 11:53 am I suppose there is a war on, which normally helps the PM, but that's a fairly good show for the Tories. Doesn't suggest to me they're fucked in red wall seats. Smaller fall than Old Bexley and Sidcup.

Something for everyone in this result: a solid, workmanlike victory for Labour in a heavily Leave seat, the Tories avoided a shellacking, the TUSC took another step towards the inevitable Socialist revolution.

Rumours of that non formal pact a few weeks back wonder if this was the first one

I see the Beeb are using the logo of the Traditional Unionist Voice party for the TUSC!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-b ... m-60613453

The Tory is a local councillor and it's always going to be hard to get your vote out on a horrible, rainy winter's day when your candidate is 1/25 with the bookies. What was interesting, and heartening, is that the left-wing fringe candidates got a lot more votes in total than the far right. .