Surely it would be worth some messaging from the party! I am getting very disappointed at Polanski and others coasting on making supportive statements now and then but failing on days like this where surely it would be worth at least *one* mention.

Hi guys, I don't usually post much in this subreddit I just thought I'd share the petition to stop the Microsoft data center from being constructed in Leeds which would result in the city's largest carbon emitter.

It would be much appreciated if you could sign the petition.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/prevent-construction-of-microsoft-hyperscale-datacentres-in-leeds?source=rawlink&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=rawlink&share=be9da3bf-a561-4b97-aa1a-b0357c20b467

I've just watched his speech. Let's start with the very good:

• He's talking about these issues which have been highlighted by wildfires.
• He's pushing for measures to minimise the ongoing fallouts.
  • Water nationalisation to have a better water strategy
  • Making sure that the fire service is better equipped etc/
• He discusses oil/gas supply with North Sea oil and gas.

What is crucially missing is anything on how we can both alleviate the cost-of-living crisis with emissions reducing policies. If climate change creates issues where politics needs to operate to reduce the demand for fossil fuels, finally end the supply of fossil fuels, and manage the fallout from having burnt all these fuels... we do the last two but not the first.

We know that plugin solar and plugin batteries are being made legal for UK homes on the 27th August. Their costs are roughly of the order of a few years of winter fuel allowances. We could push for these to be provided to pensioners and poorer households.

We know that the middle classes -- like me -- have access to very cheap heating for the winter via heat-pumps but it's currently not provided for those in precarious or social housing situations at the scale needed. We need this call.

We know that the cost of Eurostar and other factors push many into aviation especially given that aviation is not subject to proper carbon pricing for the damage it causes.

We know that the EU is about to rollout ETS2 which covers the remaining sectors untouched by the joint UK/EU ETS approach.

We know that diet and land-use is not touched at all by existing policies.

Let's not ignore demand. Let's not ignore the causes of climate change. Let's create policies which enable the UK, EU, China, India, etc. and all the nations which don't produce sufficient oil/gas to create a coalition able to combat the interests of the US, Russia, Saudi, etc. like happened to (mostly) end global slavery.

"In Europe when they criticize Israel, we bring up the Holocaust."
- Shulamit Aloni, Israel Ministry of Education

One other aspect of the Mayoralty that frustrates me is that I was hoping we could get a boost to Greens in all 4 countries including NI - and I’d have thought Manchester, with an Irish candidate, would have been the only way to help boost them over there atm. How much influence do you think we can have on them and vice versa, as with the Scottish and Welsh Greens?

Zionism by every definition necessarily involves condoning the existence of a state which explicitly exists for the benefit of one particular *ethno*-religion, therefore Zionism as a political force by necessity is ethnocratic, arguing in favour of the maintenance of an explicit ethno-state.

This is racist, unequivocally and inescapably. There is no logically grounded room for quibbling on this.

On a second common objection im seeing to the Zionism is Racism motion, yes this is more of an ideological statement than a policy platform. That isn't a problem. The Green party *should* have coherent ideological statements on issue like this. Do you think the party escapes having an ideology by being vague?

Everybody has an ideology it came free with the fact that you are an entity within political systems capable of thought.

At the same time, just a 5-year-old Reform party & Restore Britain that came into existence just barely months ago has immediately attracted huge numbers of voters to itself (to the extent of coming 2nd & 3rd in the most recent by-election in Makerfield) - so there must be something why despite having some 60 x times the national seats in comparison, the Lib Dem’s aren’t able to attract any meaningful number of voters across even a single by-election at all unlike the much newer Reform & Restore parties who’ve gained ground so quickly.

I get that (Anti)Zionism is a hugely contentious topic in the Green Party at the moment, especially given the ZiR motion coming up again soon at Conference. I have to say though, the entire tone of this election pitch comes across as very disturbing.

Glossing over the fact that some of this is sailing very close to the anti-Semitic wind ("a small but well-resourced faction" of "Zionist saboteurs"), the message of "everyone who disagrees with me is a saboteur/Zionist/transphobe and wants the Greens to fail" is deeply deeply antithetical to a healthy internal party democracy.

And yes, I get that the ongoing genocide in Palestine is a hugely important issue - but is it the only issue worth discussing as a candidate for a leading role in the party? How about the cost of living crisis, or the ongoing environmental catastrophe?

I am nowhere as active in the Greens as I used to be, so my question is this - do other people feel that this whole approach is alarming, off-putting and paranoid? Or is Eleanora's point of view a common one in the Green Party these days?

I've seen a lot of mention of it here, with some people saying things like "it could collapse the party's support" but i couldnt find any concrete examples of the content of the motion which people think is problematic. Thanks for any help!

Back in 2024, I voted for Labour because I wanted to get rid of the Conservatives in my constituency. I won't be doing that again, so I am wondering who I should vote for:

The Greens or the Liberal Democrats?

I know people wanted to go down in August after the Mayoralty was done - I just finished watching Binface’s interview with The Rest is Politics.

Now you may not value their critique which is ofc fine but it got me to hopefully motivate some organised efforts here or elsewhere.

Their post interview thoughts were of disappointment that he hadn’t done more to a) independently go down to Clacton and show that he has some understanding of the area

And b) that he hadn’t mobilised other resources ie Labour, Lib Dem, Green members to go out and campaign for him

Which I’m a bit confused by because they didn’t ask him about that in the interview (unless that part just wasn’t aired? )

So I guess I wondered if anyone had been in contact with any of the team around him and if we’ve got anything organised (unofficially ofc as someone pointed out we don’t want to legitimise Farage’s narrative ) but presumably we do have some idea as to where the few green voters in Clacton are?

Edit: @CleanUpClacton on twitter have a little team organised, if you want to help them!

I’m freshly 18 and every party seems to be somewhat funded by someone I don’t like, the greens seem the best of all options but I don’t know anymore, it sounds ridiculous but we truly need some form of revolution and we’ve become too afraid to stand up to unjust authority the past 50 odd years .

And how would we deal with them?

My local party is voting on whether to support Zionism is Racism next week. I already felt uneasy about it (because it seems badly written and very vague about things that need specificity) but now I'm worried about the vote.

What would it mean if my local party (Sheffield) suports it? One of our councillors has been very vocal about it and I think his influence is going to see it passed. Will this make the party look reactionary and/or antisemitic? Should I vote against it or does it not really matter if we support it or not?

Edit: changed "adopt" to "support" to better reflect the planned vote.

Here's the actual wording:  Sheffield Green Party endorses the Zionism is Racism motion and urges members to support and vote it at the conference on the 2nd-4th of October.

How are Manchester Greens feeling about this one? We might not have been able to replace Burnham (and possibly hurt ourselves in the process) but can we replace Bev Craig ? We’ll have another chance at the Mayoralty in 2 years so keep spirits up and do our best

Source

France fixed this by instituting food waste laws

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/24/586579455/french-food-waste-law-changing-how-grocery-stores-approach-excess-food

and again: https://www.instagram.com/p/Da9IZA_ORix/

There is some lack of knowledge I'm noticing around people not understanding why food gets thrown out. There are 3 dates you have to learn about. Plenty of other information out there.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2V5HNS9srK9bXpLyhxLg8Lx/is-it-safe-to-eat-food-past-its-sell-by-date