The Greens with Zack Polanski are now polling at 17%, one point higher than both Labour and the Conservatives. That said, Reform is still leading on 32%, according to Find Out Now.

Are the Greens bringing about the beginning of the end for the two main parties?

Could the two-party consensus be coming to an end? There is a historic precedent for the demise of one of the main UK political parties. The 1922 general election marked Labour overtaking the Liberal Party as the main opposition to the Tories. Perhaps that is about to happen again with the rise of the Greens and the yet-to-be-named ‘Your Party’.

Whereas the Tory party has been a major political force since the late 18th Century. Its potential replacement via Reform is unprecedented. That said, it was a coalition of socialists, the Greens and even centrists that defeated Marine Le Pen’s far right party in France in 2024 – Nigel Farage’s counterpart. Under the banner the New Popular Front, they received 182 seats compared to National Rally’s 143.

Starmer resignation incoming?

16% is Labour’s lowest ever rating and should surely be a resigning matter for Keir Starmer. If the party had a left-wing leader, the corporate media and parliamentary Labour party (PLP) would be howling for their downfall.

But any hope of Labour becoming a progressive party again is largely lost. That’s because Starmer changed the rules for leadership elections to ensure that no one from the left can get on the ballot box.

The party’s policies on Gaza, its continuation of austerity and privatisation, along with its anti-immigrant rhetoric and failure to tackle the cost of living crisis have all contributed to its collapse. As the Greens leader Zack Polanski recently pointed out on Sky News, people don’t want a party that only pretends to be of the left:

This is a party that have done everything they can to protect power and wealth in this country and to appease Nigel Farage. Not only is is an unethical strategy, it’s a completely absurd one too. If people wanted low fat Nigel Farage, they would vote for Nigel Farage, not Keir Starmer. And history has shown us time and time again, that if a prime minister, or someone who wants to pretend they’re on the left, constantly appeases the right by talking about “island of strangers”… by protecting the wealth of the super rich, all that happens is people laugh at them and they go and vote for the right anyway.

Perhaps Starmer’s purge of left wing Labour candidates and the party’s hard right drift will backfire, as we predicted.

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By James Wright

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