Zack Polanski has urged Brits to send a clear message to Sir Keir Starmer at the next election by voting Green – saying an increasing number of people are unhappy with the direction the Labour leader is going.
Speaking to Owen Jones, the deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales pointed out that many voters are starting to feel disenfranchised going into the next election as issues such as climate and inequality are put on the back burner.
Despite there being an obvious temptation to vote Labour to get the Tories out, Polanski argued that this shouldn’t be at the expense of voters’ values, which may be more aligned with parties outside the major two.
The comments echo that of Baroness Jenny Jones, who recently told The London Economic that tactical voting at the next election is the “coward’s way out”.
Voting Greens could send a message to a likely Labour administration that is not unlike the one UKIP delivered to David Cameron’s Conservatives in 2015.
The far-right party picked up 12.6 per cent of the overall vote and effectively secured a referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union as a result.
Similar results for the Greens could send a message to Starmer that he can’t take traditional Labour voters for granted and that, for a lot of people, climate change is much bigger than a narrow loss in a Tory stronghold.
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