Don't quite agree. Substantial differences in milieu sub-cultures between, say Brighton or neighbourhoods in cities in the Midlands and Yorkshire. Not just in diaspora terms, but also in terms of histories of political radicalism
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But most importantly, class. The Greens have remarkable cross-class appeal. Comfortable middle class in the Shires, impoverished progressive graduates in Brighton and Bristol, poor and Muslim in some parts of some northern cities. Tricky bit is their messages seem different in all those places.
sep 2, 2025, 2:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Keep in mind that among the final milieu you mentioned what you also have is some social mobility pushing members of various Muslim and other diasporas into lower and even upper middle classes. I think it is that sub-group in class/diaspora terms that could stick with the Greens, not the poorest
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To be fair their message is completely consistent wherever they are: let’s stuff Labour.
sep 2, 2025, 2:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Of course their policies in different areas are completely contradictory, but I think quite a lot of voters are beyond being bothered by that now.
sep 2, 2025, 2:16 pm • 2 0 • view
This strategy has served the lib dems very well indeed.
sep 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Yup. An electorate which is *stupendously grumpy*. With some reason. Was just looking at some polling from a foreign country. The AI translation had the questionnaire asking how "irritable" respondents were. Good question, actually.
sep 2, 2025, 2:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Turns out the future of European politics was already visible in Italy and Austria around 1994
sep 2, 2025, 2:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Weirdly il not sure that is their message: here its often 'let's work with Labour/be the nice people to their left to hold them to account'
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True *but* there is a huge overlap, which may let Reform squeeze through a load of seats thought to be ungettable if it's a Reform Vs Labour Vs Green Vs Your Party contest.
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There are differences, of course, but the parties are fishing in the same broad pool of voters. It won't be clear who are the 'correct choice' in each area
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