Der sechste neu gewählte Stadtrat der Grünen gibt auf und lässt die Londoner mit einem Nachwahlgesetz im Wert von 120.000 Pfund zurück
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/green-party-councillors-quit-election-costs-b1282285.html
Von PomeloTraditional971
28 Kommentare
Is there a reason theyre all quitting? i noticed a lot of them campaigning with foreign wars as a big part of it, did they realise the job was about bin dates etc?
It’s almost as if there is a reason we are a two party country. Reform and the Greens couldn’t arrange a piss up in a brewery.
Reasons why as a tldr;
– 2 resigned because of ill health
– Suspended over alleged antisemitic social media posts and an arrest connected to them.
– Quit because his job as a primary school teacher employed by the local authority made him ineligible to serve as a councillor in Hackney.
– Had to stand down for the same eligibility issue involving employment by the local authority, this time in Camden.
– We dunno yet about the 6th, just that they have.
Parties should be fined for doing such poor vetting jobs, whatever the party, when candidates stand down after such short periods of time.
It’s ridiculous, that already cash strapped local governments, have to pay because of poor political party management.
Did any of them look at the job description before putting their names forward?
If you work as a teacher aren’t you made aware of the restrictions around political positions?
To stand for election as a councillor you have to sign a nomination form which is submitted to the returning officer. I think its time some of these people were prosecuted for submitting false declarations.
Reform have had double this number quit. Why are we singling out the greens? Not defending the embarrassing state of the green councillors, but is there a difference or is OP just biased against the greens?
This is slightly out of date but useful [https://pgw.report/council-changes-2026/v2/](https://pgw.report/council-changes-2026/v2/)
14 Verified councillors (15 seats; 1 hold seats on more than one council)
9 Reform UK
0 Labour
2 Conservative
0 Liberal Democrat
4 Green (now 6).
8 seats went independent. 7 seats vacated. (Assume now 9 seats vacated).
I don’t like this being framed as GREENS ARE SHIT because reasonable people would want a bit more data on quitting rates overall / by party / how is the cost of a byelection folded into to local authority costs etc
But, yes, generally, don’t raise your hand if you can’t be arsed.
A lot of people think the roles will be similar to MPs and have grand plans for turning things around. Then its 3 hour long meetings where people turn up and say things like ‚my neighbours tree looks foreign‘
Does this normally happen, is it just because some parties are so divisive its being highlighted
I spend time with our local councillors, helping them out with leafletting, canvassing etc. The amount of work those guys do in the role is phenomenol, all whilst holding down jobs and raising families.
People really should consider the commitment and their capability before they accept the candidacy.
A £120,000 bill! My goodness! I think any party which has blatantly wasted that much public money should be permanently ineligible for any office ever. Who is with me!
„Joanna Eaves, who was elected in Clapham Park at the local elections on May 7, has become the latest to resign. She cited health reasons.“
A bit different than the headline suggests
this cancer of a sub is really going all in on the propanganda. if you think the greens are anyhting close to the threat of farage and his army of kiddy fiddlers.
Oh so the 6th Green councillor quitting is headline news to these people but 17 reform councillors can quit completely under the radar?
Both Reform and Greens having the same issues. These people they choose obviously aren’t explained what the role actually involves. It’s a lot of hours and unseen work that you get very little thanks for.
It’s funny how only the Green’s quitting seems to leave Londoners with by-election bills, yet when Reform do it there’s no mention of the cosr…
Why does it have to create a by-election? Doesn’t it make sense that it should automatically revert to whoever came second in the previous election. (Bar extenuating circumstances of course)
annoying, but ,however arent we seeing similiar with reform ? same problem just nutters on the right instead of the left.
Ill health is a valid reason to quit, and could have affected any party so sensationalism on the papers part. The other 5 wanting to change things in this country at the moment as it is have a job that makes them ineligible to hold their seats.
Nobody wants a bill like this, and as I have stated before in another post, the shortfall was in the processing of these candidates and I am sure it’s been a learning curve for the Green Party.
How many reform councillors have quit? Yet you don’t hear of the bills that their areas are having to cover. Always one side seen and shows where the papers sit.
With this and the fact that one of their elected MSPs is a foreign PhD student on a visa who legally cannot work more than 20 hours, something tells me the Greens aren’t properly vetting their candidates.
The Green Party should vet their candidates better – this isn’t even a question – but consider that most of the people doing the vetting are volunteers with limited resources. Labour and Conservatives don’t have this problem as much as they can get MP’s staffers to do it, though it still happens. It’s also much easier to dig up dirt on people than it once was. Most people in the labour party, conservative party or even libdems/SNP have been members for decades. That’s not the case with other parties.
A bigger problem is – the system for local elections is terrible. The whole system of ‚paper candidates‘ is terrible. The whole ‚target to win‘ (i.e., the idea of targeting and spending resources specific wards) is terrible. Parties need to put forward people who a) don’t mind actually being a councillor b) don’t care enough to actually want to campaign. We’re lucky in that the paper candidates who got elected in our area are all fantastically well qualified and dedicated people, but it could have easily happened here too.
Compare this with the London Assembly, which in my mind uses a much better voting system. Zoe resigned her assembly seat to become mayor, and no expensive by-election was needed – they just went to the next person on the list, Benali Hamdache. Zoe actually got her seat in the first place because Sian Berry resigned immediately after being elected – she had decided she wanted to contest the MP seat in Brighton. The London Assembly still has by-elections for constituencies and it’s not a perfect system, but it reduces the pressure to find loads of candidates. I could see a system where you elect a councillor for each ward and then the remaining votes for a neighbourhood or borough go to a list.
Reform and Greens really are the embodiment of the horseshoe theory following their en masse resignations following their wins.
People really shouldn’t elect folk who don’t even know what they are signing up for.
The issue seems to be vetting. Which boggles my mind.
A donkey could run for a council seat and they would only realise it was a donkey after it won.
System is a joke.
It just shows that the Green party really have no idea how our system works in the case of the ones who have stood down because they would ineligible to stand. Did the green party not do any vetting?