What kind of Labour Party would people like to vote for? The latest suggestions for a Labour manifesto put forward by John Walton sound very familiar. In fact, almost without exception they are long standing Green Party policies. Whether its repealing the coalition's disastrous NHS leglislation, bringing the railways back into public ownership, abandoning the grossly expensive (to the taxpayer) PFI and ending the privatisation of public services, or scrapping Trident and ending fracking, these are all policies the Greens have long expoused.
Imitation may be the most sincere form of flattery, but in truth the best way to see these policies realised is for the people who support them to vote for the party already signed up to them - the Greens.
More than a million people voted for the Green Party in the last European elections, and a recent YouGov poll for the Electoral Reform Society pu the Greens 12% AHEAD of the LibDems and on course to win four more seats at the Euro elections next year.
We don't need a new radical and progressive political party, because we already have one. What we do need is a fairer electoral system so that the radical and progressive political party we have - The Green party - can break through in the next general election and give a louder voice to these views. Under proportional representation there would be no need for 'splits on the left', because progressive parties could work together in the best interestes of everyone who wants to see a socially just and environmentally sustainable future