The Green Party is now ahead of the Lib Dems in the polls
A new opinion poll published today has found that support for the Green Party is higher than for the Liberal Democrats. The poll – from YouGov – puts support for the Greens at 6%, while the Liberal Democrats sit at 5%. This means that the Greens are now the third most popular party in the UK, behind only Labour and the Tories.
Today’s poll is also the first time in 2020 that support for the Greens has surpassed that of the Liberal Democrats in a YouGov poll, and only the third time this year YouGov has found support for the party to be as high as 6%.
Speaking on the poll, Green Party of England and Wales co-leader Jonathan Bartley told Bright Green:
This polling reflects the fact that more and more people are joining and supporting the Green Party as their natural political home.
The Green Party is the only party putting forward a proper plan for a green recovery and at this pivotal moment our voice has never been so important.
This increase in the polls has come despite a lack of airtime given to the party and it’s time the Green Party’s recent success was reflected fairly by the broadcast media.
The poll comes as the Green Party is holding its Autumn Conference online. In their joint speech to conference, co-leaders Jonathan Bartley and Sian Berry made a clear pitch to left wing voters disenfranchised with Keir Starmer’s ascent to the leadership of the Labour Party. Railing against privatisation and austerity, Berry told the conference:
A few years ago, the Green Party dissented in a big way. While all the other parties embraced the ideology of austerity, we stood firmly against it.
We said it would be worth it. That austerity was the plain wrong response to the economic crisis we faced. And we were proved right.
With a Green New Deal and a universal basic income, we can break free from the old thinking for good.
Over the weekend, members will be voting on a series of motions to change existing party policy. Among the motions to be debated are proposals on reparations for slavery and adopting new party guidance on anti-semitism, which includes the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition.
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Once again this article says UK, but forgets the UK consists of four countries. Therefore it should read England and Wales because I can assure you that neither the Greens nor the Libdems are the third most popular party in Scotland.
In the last 20 polls, 19 show a Lib Dem of lead of 1 – 5%, mean 2.6%.
Only poll shows a Green lead of 1%.
To say the Greens have overtaken the Lib Dems is utter bunkum.
The level of Green and Lib Dem support is so low in polling of ~2000, sample error fully explains this lead taht isn’t.
I’m a party member and embarrassed this nonsense non story has been publicised.
It’s one poll.
i am not a supporter of the lib dems but they are better at electoral politics than us as they have ten times as many MPs and unlike us have councilors in most towns. i would nt brag about this as i would nt expect these figures to change much even if Greens got double there voters.
My point like the Greens they want an new voting system but unlike the Greens they have focused patiently on doing there best under first past the post and not standing down for Labour eg…..
One poll. Try reporting if it is a trend. What does the green party even stand for anyway, they quit for the lib dems in my area, they quit for labour in other areas, having a former coke head as one leader and a christian minister who hates halal as the other is not something worth voting for.
The premise of this ‘article’ is absurd. A poll taken on exactly the same two days as the Yougov poll has the Greens on 4% and the Lib Dems on 8%. The third poll sampled in October has the Greens on just 3%, also 4% points behind the Lib Dems. What you need to do is take a weighted moving average of polls – see Britain Elects. On this basis the Greens are no further forward than they were four years ago when Jonathan Bartley first became co-leader of the party. Bright Green does no service to members of the Party by indulging in this sort of spin.