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Did Green Party ‘hit list’ of MPs who didn’t vote for Gaza ceasefire really endanger them?

Keir Starmer: he says he’s afraid for the future of his family after he supported the continued slaughter of Palestinian families by the Israeli war machine.

The Green Party has come under fire – particularly from Labour – for publishing what some are calling a “hit list” of MPs who did not support calls for a ceasefire in Gaza at a Parliamentary vote last week.

Some MPs have been exposed to mass demonstrations outside their offices – and in some cases vandalisation of those buildings.

The victims – and others – have claimed that publication of their voting choice has endangered them.

But the way every MP votes in every Parliamentary decision is always available to the public. So why are they whining?

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MPs knew the vote was going to be contentious before they got anywhere near a voting lobby and were publishing their own commentaries on why they intended to oppose a ceasefire in advance of it.

Sadly, in many cases, their claims seem to have fallen short of the kind of understanding the public expects them to have:

After the vote, people were calling for heads to roll independently. Here’s comedian Francesca Martinez on Keir Starmer:

And here, Stats for Lefties calls out hypocrisy by a nonentity Labour frontbencher called Matt Western (who?):

But the Green Party ‘X’ post highlighting every MP who opposed a ceasefire attracted hate from the moment it appeared. Cllr John Haywood appears to make a good point:

The point seemed to be hammered home when this happened:

But then, consider this response to an MP’s employee:

Yes. Actions have consequences. A positive vote for a ceasefire could have led to more positive action that could, eventually, have put a stop to scenes like that which “Lady Blah Blah” highlighted. Employees of MPs who voted against that can’t really say they are working to improve people’s lives in such instances. Can they?

Labour leader Keir Starmer said he is not worried about his own safety but has concerns for that of his family – presumably as a result of this vote:

Of course, nobody should feel endangered as a result of a vote in Parliament. Equally, they need to remember that they are only in Parliament to enact the will of the people – and 76 per cent of the UK public (that’s more than three-quarters) want peace in Gaza.

If a member of Parliament votes against the will of their constituents – having been made fully aware of that will in advance of the vote – then they need to accept that there may be consequences. If those consequences are extreme, they may wish to implement defensive measures – especially if people cross the line into illegality.

This Writer is a journalist and has been for more than 30 years. In that time I have received threats of violence, death, “we know where you live”… the whole gamut. Mostly those have been nothing more than people letting off steam and nothing more came of them.

None of them stopped me from doing my job. But then, my job was always defending the vulnerable against powerful, vested interests. I was always in the right. Those who voted against a ceasefire cannot make the same claim.

Perhaps we should look for other reasons these MPs are complaining…

It seems likely, doesn’t it?

Is this the start of an attack on MPs’ accountability? If so, it must be opposed.

“People have a right to know how their MP votes in parliament. If these MPs do not like being held to account then they are in the wrong job.”

And here’s another thought:

Finally, the sound and fury over people who voted against a ceasefire has obscured the fact that people who voted for it have also been targeted:

Was this deliberate? Make a lot of noise about being victims so that other victims go unnoticed?

That would be utterly despicable.

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Lies that won’t die: Look who’s afraid of this former Labour candidate winning for the Greens!

Jo Bird: Bigoted witch-hunters are again conducting a hate campaign to sabotage her chances of winning a Parliamentary seat from Labour – but the facts are against them.

A woman who was unfairly expelled from the Labour Party while she was running for election to its ruling NEC is to stand as the Green Party’s candidate for Birkenhead in the next general election – and the false accusations against her have suddenly re-emerged.

Somebody must be terrified that Jo Bird will take the seat!

Ms Bird was originally suspended by Labour – for just nine days – after making a self-deprecating remark that their should be “Jew process” when considering allegations of anti-Semitism against party members.

She was suspended again when she was running for election to Labour’s ruling body, the NEC.

Much was made of this at the time, including by the Jewish Chronicle. Ms Bird complained to press regulator IPSO about inaccuracies in its article, and the eventual finding came back in her favour.

But we live in an age of despicable lies that won’t die – and, now that she has been announced as the Green Party’s Birkenhead candidate, they have resurfaced – to derision from those of us who know the facts:

Fortunately she has plenty of support. This is just one example:

We know why this is happening: the Green Party is in an excellent position to take Birkenhead from Labour right-winger Alison McGovern*, so Labour is wheeling out its old, false, accusations against that party’s candidate.

This is politics of the dirtiest kind. If you live in Birkenhead and you were thinking of Labour before, think again now.

*McGovern beat left-wing candidate Mick Whitley in a selection contest after boundary changes:

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Has the Green Party finally broken into the political mainstream?

A Green Party supporter provides some insight into what the local election results mean for that organisation’s future:

And this reply is interesting:

But of course there is a fly for this ointment:

Is that still true, though?

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#LocalElections2023: early winners are the Green Party – and candidates Labour expelled

The full results aren’t in yet, but already a lot of nonsense is being said about the local elections in England and Northern Ireland.

The Conservatives have taken a hammering; at the time of writing they’re something like 10 per cent down on their previous position and could end up with just a quarter of the total councillors in England – putting them in a precarious position ahead of any future general election.

Labour has won a couple of hundred seats so far but the percentage swing in that party’s direction is negligible. I saw it described as something like 0.1 per cent in the early-early morning coverage.

As the early results came in overnight, This Writer saw a Conservative commentator saying Labour had only benefited because Tory voters had stayed at home.

This struck me as ironic, considering the point of the Tory legislation on “voter ID” was to stop Labour voters from coming out.

In that circumstance, it seems reasonable to believe that Labour could have won many more seats from the Tories if not for the new law to suppress voters.

Meanwhile, the Green Party’s support has skyrocketed, with the party almost doubling its share of councillors already. That’s a 93 per cent gain.

But the biggest kick in the teeth for the main parties – especially Labour – is the strong performance of councillors who have been expelled from that party for being too left-wing (other excuses are available).

Usually when a person leaves a political party – or is, as in these cases, removed – and stand as an independent, they sink without a trace. Look at the performance of the Labour quitters who formed Change UK while Jeremy Corbyn was in charge, and then lost their seats in the 2019 general election.

Instead, independent left-wing candidates are retaining their seats across England.

Here are a few examples:

This is in Portsmouth:

This is in Windsor:

To me, this indicates that people are starting to give up on political tribalism – they’re not all voting for candidates just because of the name of the party those people represent.

Instead, they are voting for the people they know will represent them.

We should bear in mind that these are council elections in wards with low electorates and low turnouts.

But council election results are regarded as forecasts for general elections.

It would be welcome if more high-profile exiles from Labour – like Jeremy Corbyn, for example – took this as encouragement to seek election to Parliament as independents.

The times are changing. The Parliamentary elites have tried to dictate the policies we can support and the people available to get our vote – and across the country, people are saying they’re not going to put up with it.

It’s the way we are. We’ll put up with a lot – but there come a point when someone will try to tell us what to do and we’ll say: “No.”

It would be nice to think it’s because our culture has an innate sense of decency.

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Is the Green Party emerging as the UK’s ‘protest vote’ of choice?

We can’t use Labour to protest against the Tories any more because they’re practically identical nowadays (just look at the way they both support health service privatisation).

We can’t use the Liberal Democrats because they just side with Labour or the Tories – whichever of the other parties has the most seats – if they get a sniff of power. And we all remember how that turned out between 2010 and 2015, don’t we?

So where else can we turn?

From the evidence available, it seems the Green Party may be about to have its day.

Here’s a sample vote projection in just one part of the country, with an obvious conclusion attached:

Fair point?

Mid Suffolk seems to be a target council for the Greens – but there are many other opportunities, it seems, according to the representative in the next clip (who seems to be called Zack Polanski):

But it’s possible that the Green message is breaking through to more than just its target areas. How about your local council estate?

No one can deny the Greens are getting their message across,

the article states.

Residents in Barrowfield say they will vote Green again in May. They praise the work that Green councillors have done so far.

So it’s not just a tactical vote. It’s a vote for a party whose candidates actually succeed in representing the people.

That’s more than Labour can say – especially with Keir Starmer in charge.

If you’re voting on May 4, will you be turning Green?

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Former Labour influencers are defecting to the Greens. Will you?

The Green Party has adopted (or already had) many policies that made Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party hugely attractive to voters.

Already a number of local councillors have defected from Labour to the Greens.

And influential people like Matt Zarb-Cousin, who was a spokesman for Mr Corbyn, have also jumped across to the Greens.

The door is open for left-wing Labour MPs to do the same; they certainly haven’t been welcome in Labour, the way it has been run since (let’s be honest) 1994.

Here’s a clip in which Bright Green editor Chris Jarvis discusses the possibility:

His speculation on the possibility of the Socialist Campaign Group sitting tight in the hope of having huge influence in a Labour government with a majority of anything up to 30 seems spot-on, especially in a country where the First Past The Post system means people will be unwilling to vote for another party, for fear of letting the Tories back in.

Would you vote Green in a general election? Will you vote Green in the locals next month (if there is an election where you live)? What would be your reasons?

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