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Zack Polanski declares two-party politics dead after Hackney mayoral win (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 months ago by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Zack Polanski has declared Britain’s two-party politics “dead and buried” as his Green party won its first ever mayoral election.

The Greens unseated Labour from mayoral power in the east London borough of Hackney after 24 years. The new mayor, Zoë Garbett, told reporters she was “elated” and promised it was just the beginning, after the party won with 35,720 votes to Labour’s 26,865.

“Across London and the country, people have made it clear that they are desperate for an alternative to this failing Labour government,” she said. “It’s not old politics … versus new parties. This is about a system of fear versus a movement of hope.”

“All the work I’ve ever done has been to change the system and services that let people down, harm people and widen inequality. Our borough has over a quarter of a million people,” added Garbett, who succeeds the Labour mayor Caroline Woodley.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Was listening to the BBC brief this morning and they mentioned Conservatives, Labour, and Reform. Absolutely nothing about the Green Party at all.

Love my British political news coverage.

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

Ferrari on LBC talked about every other party, too. I'm sure the anodyne interview with Caroline Lucas at about 7am will be LBC's justification of balanced coverage.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because the greens are marginal. c.1300 seats now, against LAB c.4400, CON c.3700, LIB c.3300 and REF c.2400.

They had a modest +400 increase this time, but Reform are the big winners with +1400.

So the two parties of government are still the two parties of local government, Reform are the upstarts, and Greens remain in the mid-tier.

The main story of this election is the punishment of Labour, the strengthening of Reform and the marginalisation of the Tories

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

because the greens didn't do that well

reform did astonishingly well

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Greens performed exactly in-line with projections. Average of the projections from Reform put them at 1625 seats, so they missed it by ~200.

In terms of vote share, Greens were at 18%. Up 7%, the only other party to increase their vote share was the Conservatives (2%).

And these were local elections, which have lower youth turnout.