Greens Get HAMMERED Over Israel - Then Their Poll Numbers Go UP!

Right, so the Greens were supposed to be paying a price for their position on Israel weren’t they? Their conference passed the “Zionism is racism” motion, the condemnations piled up, and Labour started demanding that Green councillors reject it if they wanted to keep working together. Then Find Out Now published its latest poll. The Greens had gone UP, from eleven to thirteen per cent. Now obviously this is just one survey. Nobody’s claiming a landslide. But it does rather screw up the claims about how politically suicidal this was all supposed to be, because the pressure has gone well beyond telling the Greens they’re wrong. Labour has threatened existing council agreements. National politicians are being asked to rule them out as partners. Green councillors who negotiated local arrangements are now expected to repudiate their own party’s decision, the will of their own members, and the Greens after all are member led, to keep those arrangements alive. And if they refuse? Their residents could end up watching councillors scramble to put a replacement administration together. All because Westminster has decided the local agreements need to put Israel first. Your bin collections, your libraries, who knew Israel had a say in all of that? Well, Labour and the Lib Dems at least, as I’ve covered in the last few days. You might have thought winning enough votes to get elected entitled you to negotiate with the other people who got elected. Apparently there’s an additional approval process now that requires Zionists giving you the nod.