I don’t know, despite the eternal fuck-up that is the British left, finally seeing so many break from the Labour Party to just immediately allow the Greens to wholly monopolise the left position would be frustrating. That a party of socialists, fractious though it may be, has the platform and numbers to articulate a distinct position just as the gulf between liberal progressivism and socialism is being reasserted is positive.
The Green’s rhetoric is grand, and it seems they will be the counterweight to Reform in the foreseeable future, but they are not a socialist party. The record of the Scottish Greens, as a minor partner with the SNP, was characterised by legitimising austerity cuts, privatisation of renewables, and freeports. The GPEW, even with the leadership change and new members, has a sizeable constituency that will pull in the direction of neoliberal common-sense. If they make big enough waves and are co-opted and pulled into a role within the British system, the discontent and disillusionment that generates needs to have an alternative it can channel to.
YP might implode before that point sure; the drama, conference was a bit of a mess, the folks steering much of it up until this point seem to be the kind of folks who want what the Greens have, the SWP. But the grassroots organisation its pulled together alongside far more concrete positions on socialism, anti-imperialism, anti-zionism, trans liberation; it feels a waste to merge that into a liberal party for the sake of optics.
I don’t know, despite the eternal fuck-up that is the British left, finally seeing so many break from the Labour Party to just immediately allow the Greens to wholly monopolise the left position would be frustrating. That a party of socialists, fractious though it may be, has the platform and numbers to articulate a distinct position just as the gulf between liberal progressivism and socialism is being reasserted is positive.
The Green’s rhetoric is grand, and it seems they will be the counterweight to Reform in the foreseeable future, but they are not a socialist party. The record of the Scottish Greens, as a minor partner with the SNP, was characterised by legitimising austerity cuts, privatisation of renewables, and freeports. The GPEW, even with the leadership change and new members, has a sizeable constituency that will pull in the direction of neoliberal common-sense. If they make big enough waves and are co-opted and pulled into a role within the British system, the discontent and disillusionment that generates needs to have an alternative it can channel to.
YP might implode before that point sure; the drama, conference was a bit of a mess, the folks steering much of it up until this point seem to be the kind of folks who want what the Greens have, the SWP. But the grassroots organisation its pulled together alongside far more concrete positions on socialism, anti-imperialism, anti-zionism, trans liberation; it feels a waste to merge that into a liberal party for the sake of optics.