Green Voters Overwhelmingly Back Iran Over Israel and US
Green Party voters are far more likely to back Iran rather than Israel and the US in the war in the Middle East, with 38% sympathising with Iran versus just 4% with the US and Israel, a poll has shown. The Telegraph has the story.
A survey of 2,408 people carried out by More in Common found that 38% of those who support Zack Polanski’s party sympathised more with the Iranian side in the conflict.
Just 4% of Green voters said they backed Israel and the US, while 40% picked neither side and 6% supported both sides equally.
Polanski has been a vocal critic of the war in Iran, going as far as to claim that Donald Trump is as big a threat to Britain as Mojtaba Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader.
The Greens have also accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. This weekend, the party’s spring conference will vote on a motion saying that Zionism should be treated as a form of racism.
Among the British public, 19% sympathised more with the Israeli and American sides, with 13% supporting Iran.
43% chose neither, 11% viewed both equally and 15% were not sure.
Reform UK voters were most likely to sympathise with Israel and the US rather than Iran, by 44% to 4%, followed by Tory supporters (28% to 7%).
16% of Labour voters chose the Israeli and American side, while 14% backed the Iranian side and 47% said they were not sympathetic towards either.
Luke Tryl, the UK Director of More in Common, said: “While Trump puts pressure on Keir Starmer over the conflict, only around a fifth sympathise with the US and Israel, while the largest share of the public do not sympathise with either side.
“However, we see some fascinating partisan splits, with nearly half of Reform voters backing the US and Israel, and two-in-five Green voters sympathising with Iran.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Polling by Rakib Ehsan for Policy Exchange has found that 39% of British Muslims have a favourable view of Iran, compared to 8% of the British population as a whole.
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I think it’s quite important to distinguish between Iran and the Iranian government.
I wish the Iranian people well, an ancient and noble nation, and I hope the current disturbance will lead to them getting a better government, which will enable them to prosper in peace with their neighbours.
Indeed the same applies to many nations, though of course to an extent governments are the products of the countries they govern. But Starmer does not represent me.
Perhaps we should call them Persians and leave Iranian to describe the religious fundamentalists.
Good idea!
If Trump gave away free food forever, the left would be upset.
McDonald’s? No wonder!
I’m not really sure what any of these numbers mean, or even what people thought they were answering. Probably “I don’t like Iran” or “I don’t like America” or whatever. The questions are surely “Is the US/Israeli attack on Iran morally justified or in the interests of the world/USA/UK” and “What would you like to see as the outcome/resolution of this conflict”.
It is a manifestation of TDS.
It is a polarising topic, here as much as anywhere else. A lot of the reactions on both sides seem to be based on dogma or some picture of the world with good guys and bad guys. Unless the right questions are asked it just turns into a popularity poll for the USA or Trump or Iran or Islam or whatever.
I don’t know anything like all the facts – I don’t think many do, maybe no-one – but I have thought about this a bit and if someone asked me “who are you backing” or something I don’t think I could answer. I mean, I don’t want any of the countries involved to be obliterated. “Who do you want to win?” – well what does “winning” look like?
As the saying goes: Opinions are like a**holes. Everybody has one.
Utterly pointless survey.
… and they all stink.
Green voters are mentally ill, if they were not they wouldn’t be Green voters.
They self-identify as sane.
Any lunatic will say the only sane people are those inside the asylum.
Islam is the problem.
No, Islamism.
Nope, Islam. It’s an ideology and you cannot dissect it and divide it into various categories then place these on a spectrum, like placing adherents into various boxes depending on their personal level of fervour or interpretation of the tenets of Islam. That way lies naivety, and I’d say it’s largely how we’ve ended up in this mess. By treating Islam just like a religion when it is clearly not. Religions do not have a terrorist branch, for instance. Colonizing, supremacist death cults do, though;
”Is he preaching Islam, Islamism, radicalized Islamism, militant Islamism, extremist Islamism, self-radicalized Jihadism, or the dreaded violent Islamismismismismism?”
https://x.com/GadSaad/status/2036432241560076725
You’re correct. It’s like the Gadfather states in this mini clip;
https://x.com/De234Genius/status/2036446753373786310
The time to worry is when Green voters don’t back Iran. By definition a Green voter is away with the faeries and that is all we need to know.
Will there be a mass pray out in the open air at the conference? accompanied by the Trans and the Sex workers, will there be free heroin and Coke ? and the opportunity ton play hangman with the section of the UK that Zack and his Party hate.
Is there a naked scarecrow somewhere out there whose clothes and mask have been pinched?
Unkind… but not unwarranted.
I wonder if the once great DT had done a basic search of More in Common (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10900540/officers) would have still given publicity to this “independent” organisation. It’s run by true Brits going back to Alfred the Great, No? – really laughable (deeper dive into funding is less amusing)
Oh good, turkeys voting for Christmas
Do we really expect anything different from the GREEN SLIME, and their deluded slime supporters?
Looking at the poll it is clear that the vast majority (not in dark blue) is at least not in favour. This in spite of the ad nauseam ‘bombardment’ of Israel-US sided news from the MSM. It looks like in this case people are seeing through the lie. Let’s not forget this is just a distraction. The potentially catastrophic problem in the region is what should concern us the most: mutual destruction of Iran and the GCC.