{"id":310618,"date":"2017-05-31T12:07:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T11:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-green-party-stands-aside-for-pro-european-union-candidates\/"},"modified":"2017-05-31T12:07:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T11:07:39","slug":"uk-green-party-stands-aside-for-pro-european-union-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-green-party-stands-aside-for-pro-european-union-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Green Party stands aside for pro-European Union candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK: Green Party stands aside for pro-European Union candidates<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Steve James<br \/>\n    <br \/>31 May 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The centerpiece of the Green Party\u2019s campaign for the June 8 general elections is its decision to stand aside for pro-European Union (EU) candidates from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and other parties.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Party\u2019s role as an instrument of the most pro-EU factions of the British ruling class could not be more exposed.<\/p>\n<p> In 39 of 42 seats where local \u201cprogressive alliance\u201d agreements have been reached, the Greens have stood aside for pro-EU candidates deemed most likely to win. However, the Greens\u2019 gesture has been largely ignored by the parties it has sought to woo. The Liberal Democrats have stood down in just two seats to assist the Greens and Labour in none at all. Caroline Lucas, the party\u2019s leader and its only MP, told the <em>Financial Times<\/em> that attempts to build a pro-EU, anti-Tory alliance have been \u201cvery disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After contesting a record 573 seats in 2015, the Greens are standing candidates in 457 seats in England and Wales this time around. However, they anticipate winning just two of those at best. The party won over 1 million votes in 2015\u2014up by more than 300 percent on their 2010 vote. This was the Greens\u2019 high-water mark, as the party won support from those opposed to the Tory-lite pro-austerity program advanced by Labour leader Ed Miliband.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the Greens\u2019 support, especially among young people, has since been captured by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Indeed, large chunks of Labour\u2019s election manifesto recycle policies previously advanced by the Greens, including the abolition of student tuition fees and renationalisation of the railways.<\/p>\n<p> The Greens expect their vote to fall sharply. \u201cGiven that we have stood down in a number of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/05\/31\/gree-m31.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK: Green Party stands aside for pro-European Union candidates By Steve James 31 May 2017 The centerpiece of the Green Party\u2019s campaign for the June 8 general elections is its decision to stand aside for pro-European Union (EU) candidates from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and other parties. The Green Party\u2019s role as an instrument [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}