The Labour party has recently accepted that the Green party is doing on the left what Ukip is doing on the right, if a little more slowly. Acknowledging with alarm the “Green surge”, it has created a national anti-Greens unit, headed by shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan, to “reach out to a group of voters who lie to the left”. But will the unit offer those voters anything real to vote for? Or will it just attack the Greens, saying whatever it likes to harm the party of real social change?
In its first few weeks, the new unit’s work has merely reinforced the very reason why Labour voters are increasingly turning to the Greens: Labour doesn’t offer a positive vision or a progressive political platform of its own but instead spends its time bashing those who do. It no longer offers an alternative to the vested interests of big business and the establishment because it is immersed in that establishment.
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