The strategy has worked, look at the polls and see where the Greens are in the North West. We’re on course to double our number of MEPs (maybe more, who knows?), so it’s not been in bad taste or been a flop, it’s worked, all credit to the team there because it has put the Greens right in contention.

I know I’m making apologies but it’s an election, this is how it’s done.

It’s not an alliance. Get your facts right before you make such claims.

Karl, what I’m saying is we’re all opportunists. It’s an election, you have to seek opportunities where you can. Are you seriously saying then that No2EU is not opportunist because it intends to take reactionary working class votes away from the BNP?

Crainie seems to be saying that we should ignore the polls because UKIP will face problems over EU expenses in coming weeks. Shouldnt we then be careful about using our vote for the Greens given the German Green MEPs latest scandal and the Scottish Greens abuse of the homes allowance in the Scottish parliament?

This is desperate stuff, a party that never show any desire to form alliances with the left (unless that alliance is voting Green) is now in alliance with Libertas over the issue of placing the Greens above UKIP?

Where will it end?

I expect to see constructive argument without resorting to profanities. All it shows is frustration without any strong reason for that frustration. It’s an election and I know how tensions flare, especially when we see our respective parties and electoral projects not polling where we like and when we expect a particular demographic to come rushing to our flocks.

Our campaign in the North West is backed up by strong and bold policies designed to bring temporate relief of the economic and ecological crisis throught the ‘Green New Deal.’ The party is under no illusion that it is a permanant answer, but we see it as a stepping stone in the right direction on regulating capitalism, protecting public services, and re-designing the UK economy towards the Green collar. Those are the principles of our campaign, that is our message. Yes we’re saying ‘Stop the BNP’ and then ‘Vote Green’ as a means to do that because we are the positive alternative, the electoral alternative, to the politics of the mainstream and the far-right. It is an electoral message focused around our core principles.

The news that Joanna Lumley is backing the Greens should hopefully send a shock wave through middle England and may even bring out some unexpected voters for the Greens. But time will tell.

I agree with the above points. The campaign in the North West has brought together the broadest coalition around the Green campaign than anywhere else in the party. It is a genuine united front which puts progressive policies and hope at the front of the campaign, whilst combating the politics of hate.

http://petercranie.blogspot.com/

The fact that the BNP uses elements of socialism to make them more attractive at the ballot box indicates the opportunist nature of their politics.

Socialism is about the liberation of workers from exploitation. Nazism is about increasing the exploitation of workers.