Staying Connected: explaining parties’ enduring connections to civil society

My first paper with Sarah de Lange https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/a/s.l.delange/s.l.delange.html and Wouter van der Brug https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/b/r/w.vanderbrug/w.van-der-brug.html was published online by Party...

Nick Martin explains why the best course of action for the Green Party is to give their all to elect councillors who will increase the prospects for climate action in local communities. But at the national level, the vain quest for more MPs should give way to a recognition that the best hope for a decisive change in national direction is the election of Labour government.

The Greens in England and Wales have had a couple of good showings in recent opinion polls. The reality though is that the Party has no foreseeable chance of increasing its parliamentary representation or enacting its own version of the Green New Deal. Only the Labour Party can effectively represent progressives hope of a decisive change of direction for the country.