Zack Polanski says the Greens could work with Labour to stop Farage — but only if Keir Starmer and the Labour right are out of the picture

Zack Polanski says the Greens could work with Labour to stop Farage — but only if Keir Starmer and the Labour right are out of the picture

  • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
    144·
    2 days ago

    This is a stupid sentiment. Starmer isn’t just Starmer. He comes with a whole faction of Starmer loyalists that needs removing as well. At which point you might as well setup a proper left party. Or fold the remaining MPs in the Labour Party into the Greens.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      Polanski stated — in no uncertain terms — that he is unwilling to work alongside Keir Starmer or his other Labour-right cronies. However, if the party took on more left-wing leadership, the Greens would be open to an electoral alliance.

      That’s basically what he said.

      • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Well exactly. Which is obviously not realistic to say “get rid of your leader plus 70% or more of your party”. So he might as well just recruit the remaining Left leaning MPs into the Greens. In other words there will be no electoral pact in reality because the conditions are absurd.

        • Wimopy@feddit.ukEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          Looking at the original article in The Independent, it’s pretty clear he is not at all aiming for a pact with Labour. Only when “pressed” about one did he say explicitly he would consider it but never with current Labour-right… Which as you say is re-stating his stance of wanting to replace, not ally with Labour. It’s a diplomatic “no, we only ally with more like-minded people”.

          The title from The Canary feels like it overstates the case, but it is still what Polanski said in the end. It does also more strongly push the idea that Labour going back to the left would be better for them than stating it with the original caveats, so I assume that’s deliberate.

    • deHaga@feddit.ukEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      At which point you might as well setup a proper left party

      Come on, the Your Party debacle showed exactly what happens whenever a ‘proper’ left party is tried. Always infighting and purity abound.

      • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Same with any party (lots of infighting amongst the conservatives during Johnson’s rein), but the media overreport on the failings of the left, embarassing as they may be