I'll give the last word today on the Gorton & Denton by-election & its implications to Ben Ansell (UOxford).
The combination of Zac Polanski's reshaping of the Green Party of England & Wales' rhetoric & positioning, and the Labour Party's abandonment of the Left have opened up a space which may be a lot larger than many commentators think, for the Greens to walk into!
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@ChrisMayLA6 the policies that Zack is talking about have always been Green policies but we just didn’t talk about them much.
@foxcj @ChrisMayLA6 I keep rowing with people on facebook for whom we aren’t pure enough. Drives me nuts.
@francis @ChrisMayLA6 The social policies weren't talked about much in the media because the Greens were not given much opportunity to talk about them, and they were treated as a single-issue party. Even now some political commentators talk of the GPEW "abandoning" their supposed single-issue base, when in reality they never were a single issue party.