Labour MPs “In Talks to Defect to Green Party”
Labour MPs have been in talks with the Green Party about possible defections, it has emerged, as Zack Polanski’s party surges ahead in the polls. The Telegraph has the story.
The Telegraph has learnt that at least one Labour MP has been approached by Labour Party whips within the past month over concerns they could defect to the Greens.
A YouGov poll published last week showed the Greens had overtaken Labour in voting intentions for the first time, at 21% compared with 16%.
Hannah Spencer stormed to victory for the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election last month, seizing the former stronghold constituency from Labour, which came third behind Reform.
A Green Party source told the Telegraph that while talks had so far yielded “nothing concrete”, they had seen an “uptick in interest since the by-election success and before”.
“There are some Labour MPs who see what the Greens are talking about, lowering bills, protecting the NHS and defending human rights abroad, and recognise us rather than Labour as where their values most sit.”
Speculation around possible defections to the Green Party will continue to mount if Labour takes a drubbing in the local elections in May, as is being widely predicted.
Labour’s defeat in the Greater Manchester by-election prompted the Prime Minister to write a letter to his MPs condemning Polanski’s party as “extreme”.
During the campaign he attacked the Greens’ position on legalising drugs and its stance on defence in a bid to stem the loss of voters on its Left flank.
Ministers were also critical of “sectarian” campaigning as the Greens targeted the constituency’s Muslim voters and urged them to “punish Labour for Gaza”.
Sir Keir is now facing calls from within his party to learn from the Greens’ popularity, rather than aggressively attacking them.
One Minister said the Prime Minister’s attempts to paint the Green Party as extremists were “totally tone deaf”.
Labour MPs have also shared a meme comparing Sir Keir to the hapless Principal Skinner in The Simpsons cartoon. It says: “Am I out of touch? No, it’s the voters who are wrong and the Greens with their communication skills and positive policies …I mean divisive and sectarian policies.”
Lord Hayward, a Tory peer and pollster, said Labour faced a “very substantial” potential electoral threat in the Greens, particularly if it joined forces with other parties on the Left.
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The electorate felt let down by the Conservatives under the last government. They’re feeling the same way about Labour now. So it’s hardly surprising that they’re looking to other parties for a way out of the current mess, and some MPs are bound to go with them. Unless there’s a major shift in trends over the next couple of years, I foresee the next general election being a contest between the traditional Right and the loony Left, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised by a hung parliament.
I don’t think ‘let down’ quite describes how many of us are feeling about Labour. Visceral loathing and absolute horror at the carnage they are wreaking on this country might be a bit closer to the mark, and utter despair that so many of our countrymen were idiotic enough to vote for them.
I’ll give you one guess as to the sex and ethnicity of the person who said this. Here’s a clue: they’re neither female nor a person of colour; ”The chair of a report on ethnic diversity in the top ranks of British companies has said it will be “natural for white males to have fewer board seats” in the future due to the UK’s changing social demographics. David Tyler, chair of The Parker Review, told the FT that when white, middle-aged men complained that diversity targets were the reason they missed out on jobs it was because “people need a reason for not being hired”. “It still remains that the great majority are white men in boardrooms,” he added. Tyler, who is chair of PZ Cussons and Domestic & General, said that “it shouldn’t be a surprise for white men to have a lower proportion of seats, it will gradually happen along with the gradual change in society. One in six of our population are from ethnic minorities and that is also set to increase gradually.” https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/03/10/white-men-will-have-fewer-board-seats-in-future-says-uk-diversity-chair/ If you are feeling particularly masochistic you can click on ‘Reports’ and check out the 2026 report from this company, but you may… Read more »
David Tyler, chair of The Parker Review, told the FT that when white, middle-aged men complained that diversity targets were the reason they missed out on jobs it was because “people need a reason for not being hired”.
“It still remains that the great majority are white men in boardrooms,” he added.
The people who are responsible for a great majority [of] white men in boardrooms are those who hired them and not other people seeking employment who also happen to be white and male. Further, it shouldn’t be a surprise for white men to have a lower proportion of seats also doesn’t make any sense. White men aren’t a political party or some other kind of organized group which could meaningfully have a lower proportion of seats, it’s a group David Tyler etc have artificially constructed out of a great number of unrelated individuals by judging them on their looks.
And who they say they are actively going to discriminate against…
Yes, if you were to check out their 2026 report, even just a quick skim would probably have you feeling nauseated by it all, as it did me. There’s just this obsession with reaching targets and a prevailing sentiment that if a company doesn’t reflect the wider community then it is somehow ”out of step” and lacking. Much talk about the disadvantages and supposed barriers BAME people face, how inclusivity is so important, diversity improves the work place and productivity, social cohesion, so on and so forth. We’re all familiar with the jargon by now. I find it all a bit overwhelming and depressing seeing it so intensified in one document like that. This is David Tyler again from the foreword he wrote; ”I am pleased to say that 98 of the FTSE 100 companies had at least one Ethnic Minority Director in December 2025 – a record high. We have moved a long way from just 47 FTSE 100 companies being in this position when we started our work in 2015. The ethnic diversity of the UK workforce has increased significantly over the last 25 years and will continue to do so over the next quarter century. Most companies… Read more »
Life is by far not so dull that reading something like this would be a good way to pass the time, especially considering that life is also finite.
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A scribbler recently described Polanski’s dentition as ‘resembling an archeological dig’. Not far off the mark I’d say. His policies are certainly ruinous.
The ship of dribbling fools will always attract other dribbling fools, and the current government is awash with fools and retards, sad to think they ‘represent’ the electorate….
They will defect to wherever they think they can remain on the gravy train. Ethics and morals.? Not when you’ve got a mortgage to pay.
“There are some Labour MPs who see what the Greens are talking about, lowering bills, protecting the NHS and defending human rights abroad, and recognise us rather than Labour as where their values most sit.”
Translated as the Greens will bomb the country back into the Stone Age even quicker than Labour is so we are all in on that.
The Greens, like Labour have many laudable intentions, but they all seem to rely on hope. Hoping is not a plan. Any idiot can ‘hope’ it all turns out great. I want budgets and I want measures of success and I want timelines for delivery.
Trouble is, they think hope is a lot easier than all that ‘technical’ stuff… who wants facts and data, when you can have wishes?…
So Green Party = Environmentalism = Marxist Socialism.
They are no longer trying to hide it.
Let’s hope for more defæcations from Labour to the Greens to form the Leftie Loonies United Party.
Apparently according to someone who left the party, all they talk about is gender and race, and hardly ever mention the environment. —–This is the GREEN SLIME PARTY.
“they had seen an “uptick in interest ” – this could be an uptick of none to one!
It’s like a contest for which white man in a position of leadership can bend over for Islam the most. Who’s the biggest brown-noser and the most reliant on their support: Starmer or Polanski? It really is a close call. I wonder how different society would look without the presence and significant influence of Islam. How many citizens in the UK would still be alive now or not have had their lives ruined or permanently marred by what was done to them by Muslims? This isn’t ‘anti-Muslim hate’, it’s a legitimate question to consider, especially when one thinks about it in *per capita* terms. Can’t fault this post, which is a response to someone saying Muslims don’t belong in American society. This applies to all of the Western world, really. And I get that this is a moot point because they’re here and firmly embedded ( and ever-encroaching ) in our Western societies and they aren’t going anywhere and that they aren’t all bad people, so it’s clearly the expectation for us to tolerate the ( largely ) intolerant; ”I concur, wholeheartedly. In the wake of yet another eruption of primal savagery…ISIS-inspired explosives hurled into the heart of dissent…the veil… Read more »
Good comment, in this 2min clip. Would you call it ”genocide”, though? Sounds a bit far-fetched, but certainly ”replacement” is apt, if things keep going along on this trajectory and remain unchecked;
”Thomas Corbett-Dillon is a former adviser to Boris Johnson. He says Britain has an “indigenous population that has lived in that island for thousands of years. “There’s a genocide happening because it’s being taken over by different people that are not indigenous to this land”.
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/2031279622399152302
That is unerringly accurate. Thanks Mogs 👍
This is simply political propaganda by/ for the Greens the Telegraph is duly reporting as fact.
But who the hell would ever join such a bunch of clowns?
More importantly, why is the mainstream media trying to sell them as the next big thing?!!
More low effort column inches and pixels to catch the eye and present advertisements.
Because they’re globalism incarnate and the people behind that strongly want them to be the next big thing.
WEF stooges.
Much ado about nothing.
I still think he looks like Roland the Rat.
They’ll jump ship seeing that the protected and favoured family-voting communities are now rapidly abandoning Labour for the Greens. As always, far too many MPs will do whatever is in their own best interests above all else.