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What happens when the Green Party governs? (www.ft.com)

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TL;DR: green development gets blocked.

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Famously they’ve been very successful where come from - Sheffield - but have absolutely nothing to put to their name following a long-reigning green party mayor of the city … other than some postulating and participstion in reality shows.

(Actually i would credit the green party’s success here with the delay to Sheffield getting an improved metro system, which is now only going ahead under a labour-led Combined authority for the entire county.)

He held a, what Wikipedia calls, ceremonial post for one year? The Greens also only had 8 councillors and Labour a majority, so this criticism feels very misplaced.

[–] Swaus01@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

Weird, they made such a big thing about it (because he's a minority i guess), felt like living under a propoganda regime. I might be mixing it up because he continued to hold other positions such as MEP. My apologies.