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  • Emeritus Prof. Christopher MayChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
    Oct 16, 2026, 5:27 AM

    I'd take commentators claiming the Green Party of England & Wales has been beset by Left entryism more seriously if they hadn't dismissed the party in the past as a marginal force in British politics.

    The worry that the GPEW has widened its focus & encompassed views popular on the Left is not so much a worry about the policies the party espouses, as a concern they might actually gain more votes thereby disrupting the political class' domination of the political agenda!

    #politics

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  • ngrbdx (Antifascist)ngrbdx@mastodon.social
    Oct 16, 2026, 6:18 AM

    @ChrisMayLA6 every party not pro billionaires is far left for them and not completely untrue when the middle point to call people leftist and rightist shift a lot closer towards extrem right.

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  • RegReggieHere@mastodon.social
    Oct 16, 2026, 6:49 AM

    @ChrisMayLA6

    I remember people criticising the Greens many years ago for being a single-issue party that wasn't fit for govt because they only cared about the environment.

    I suppose you could argue that when Labour moved to the right under Kinnock and Blair, they inadvertently provided a ready-made policy platform for the GPEW to adopt along with a large cohort of disenfranchised voters.

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  • RegReggieHere@mastodon.social
    Oct 16, 2026, 7:33 AM

    @ChrisMayLA6

    With respect to @GeofCox comments on your other thread, I wonder how much the near total exclusion of the political left in the UK has contributed to our current situation in comparison with the rest of Europe.

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  • Emeritus Prof. Christopher MayChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
    Oct 16, 2026, 8:01 AM

    @ReggieHere @GeofCox

    I would say quite significantly - the shift rightwards & the policies that has entitled are central t the story of the UK's relative decline in theist half-century.... it needn't have been like this, but the Right wanted it to be for its own (self-focussed) reasons

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  • RegReggieHere@mastodon.social
    Oct 16, 2026, 8:13 AM

    @ChrisMayLA6

    I suppose that the entire project would have fallen over if there'd been a left-wing alternative, so eliminating the threat was existential.

    Accepting this as a feature of the cult-like obedience to neoliberal economics over the past fifty years, your typo couldn't be more appropriate!

    @GeofCox

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  • Jenjetlagjen@gts.phillipsuk.org
    Oct 16, 2026, 7:28 AM

    @ChrisMayLA6 "How dare lefties want a political home! How very dare they be at all active in formal politics! I don't want to have to argue with people who don't agree with me!"

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  • beemohbeemoh
    Oct 16, 2026, 3:01 PM

    @ChrisMayLA6 It's also interesting how if a party finds a new audience of members it wasn't catering for before, that's "entryism" to control policy and harmful, but if one finds a new audience of donors it wasn't catering for before and lets them literally write policy- as Labour, under Starmer have admitted they have- that's absolutely A-OK.

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  • benbenjamineskola@hachyderm.io
    Oct 16, 2026, 5:24 PM

    @ChrisMayLA6 indeed. ‘the party should broaden its appeal’ / ‘no not like that’

    (if the party was a marginal force there would be no point in entryism, surely: entryism would aim to take control of a significant force. in the case of the greens it’s just… being on the left. yet, for some people, any expression at all of left politics is illegitimate.)

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