Steven Heywood on Nostr: There's a significant difference between getting people motivated to hold their nose ...

There's a significant difference between getting people motivated to hold their nose and vote for a party they don't like to effect a change of government from the God-awful to the hopefully not actively too bad and getting them motivated to change one MP they didn't interact with for another MP they probably won't interact with which scarce any impact on a government's huge majority. It shouldn't be so — the election of any MP should be a serious business — but if only 31% of the electorate could be coaxed to vote Labour to kick out the Tories after the disaster of the previous fifteen years the by-election was probably too big an ask.

Perhaps we need to vigorously talk up the prospects and impacts of the Greens (for good or bad) so they become seen by the stay-at-homes as an active option rather than a passive protest and maybe that will become an alternative gravitational pull on Labour direction.

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