Greens Overtake Labour for First Time in Wake of By-Election
The Green Party has overtaken Labour for the first time in the wake of its Gorton and Denton by-election victory last week as the party became the most popular among all under-50s. The Telegraph has more.
A YouGov poll put Zack Polanski’s party on 21% – up four points in a week.
The Greens were just two points off Reform UK, with Nigel Farage’s party falling one point to 23% in YouGov’s weekly voting intention poll.
Labour and the Tories were tied on 16%, both down two points, while the Liberal Democrats remained at 14%.
The pollster, which sampled around 2,000 adults on March 1st and 2nd, said it had never recorded a lower score for Labour in its 26-year history.
Sir Keir Starmer’s party lost control of what had been a safe seat in Gorton and Denton, slumping to third behind the Greens and Reform. Hannah Spencer became the Greens’ fifth MP and first in the north of England with a 4,402 majority.
Polanski said Labour had entered an “existential crisis” and no longer had a “stranglehold” on areas such as Greater Manchester.
He said that while only a few months ago he felt 30 Green MPs could be voted in at he next general election, he now believed 50 was an “unambitious” target and that this could rise further.
In the aftermath of the result, Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, urged Labour not to try and “out-Green the Greens” and warned that a move further to the Left would alienate too many voters. Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister, said the party needed to “listen and reflect”.
Worth reading in full.
Sky News highlights that the Greens are “now the most popular party in all age categories under 50. Some 49% of 18-24 year olds would back the Greens, as well as 27% of 25 to 49-year-olds – the top choice.”
Of those who voted Labour in 2024, “just 37% would vote Labour again, 25% would now vote Green, 8% Lib Dem and 20% don’t know, would not vote or refused to say”.
A quick recap of Green policies. The party wants to:
- Give illegal migrants a free house and access to the NHS while paying them a wage with no requirement to work but permission to take up employment “with no restrictions” under plans for “a world without borders”.
- Legalise drugs including crack cocaine, heroin and date-rape drug GHB, making the latter available for use in pubs and clubs.
- Legalise prostitution and end all restrictions on porn except those aimed at protecting children.
- Bring in gender self-ID.
- Introduce a universal basic income, sending the welfare bill into the stratosphere.
Green Deputy Leader Mothin Ali declared his 2024 local election victory a “win for the people of Gaza” and celebrated with “Allahu Akbar!” Last week he was pictured attending a rally in support of the Iranian regime – though Zack Polanksi has said Ali was only there to call for peace and any criticism of this is “Islamophobic”. After October 7th, Ali defended the right of “indigenous people to fight back” (presumably not meaning white Brits), while on the day of the attack he wrote on X: “White supremacist European settler colonialism must end.” Ali along with Polanski has backed a Green Party motion to class Zionism as a form of racism, while a spin doctor recently hired by Polanski denies women were raped in the October 7th attack. In the by-election campaign, campaign materials released in Urdu invited voters to “punish Labour for Gaza”.
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Make it make sense.
The policies of Labour, Conservative and Liberals have ruined this country, and are responsible for the sky high cost of energy, and why young people can’t afford to buy a house.
Along come the Greens who would do the same only more of it and harder, making life worse for those very same young people.
In response, nearly half of young people would vote for them, and more than a quarter of those in the next older bracket.
Are the British people suicidal??
Make it make sense.
Well, I for one, cannot.
This seems more like an x-factor popularity contest than a tussle between principled political viewpoints.
Maybe Nigel should go back into the jungle and ingest more noxious foodstuffs…
Given the way the education system has been colonised by the woke Left over recent decades, it comes as no surprise to me that under-50s would vote for the idealists who will save the planet and offer countless freebies to all and sundry, without troubling themselves with issues such as where the money will come from.
They’re being conservative.
‘Our family have always voted against the Tories. So we’ll vote against Reform too.‘
Most have no idea what Tory actually is – including most Conservative party voters.
Sorry, cannot.
Most people just imbibe the far left rantings on MSM and are further inculcated in this ideology in all institutions. Tories and anyone to the right of them and their abhorrent views are morally bad, they are told. If they were on a sinking ship and they were told ‘not to worry you can breath underwater’ I think most would believe it until they start gurgling water..
Have the Greens now abandoned their environmental roots and surrendered entirely to Islam?
Probably not – just concealing it from their target voters… which will come as an enormous shock if they gain significant power and start actually imposing ‘green’ policies in Muslim areas.
Or maybe they’ll just start imposing Islamic policies on their very impressionable Green faithful.
They won’t ban Halal (or Kosher) slaughter – they’ll just ban meat.
Green was always a cover for Marxist Socialism, so they have abandoned nothing, just broken cover.
‘Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.’
One by-election result seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Punishing Labour for Gaza wont have the appeal in Norfolk or Cumbria, or Somerset. Green is ‘not Labour’, environmentalist, warm and cuddly.’ Do I think people really read their policies and think ‘that’s what I want’? No. In a GE, they couldn’t muster the efforts that the Gorton result had, but they will also come under greater scrutiny, and I suspect fewer people will want to vote that in. They wont turn to Reform, but will be ‘stay at home’s’. Reform, imo, have to keep at building a manifesto for government.
Yes they need to concentrate on the long game, and not worry a jot about what others are doing. Trying to find some positives in this Green populist movement, at least it further waters down the left vote, meaning less likely to get Labour in again? Danger is a coalition of the left of course… god help us
He reminds me of Roland the Rat.
Yeah but the crescent moon is white.