Because we have FPTP and this will further split the left vote and let Reform / Tories in.

Our number one priority should be to kill FPTP and make it so we don't have governments only a minority of the voters wanted.

We know a Corbyn Labour party scares people to vote against Labour. He has a ceiling. There is a lot of country that subscribes to his views, but not enough to do more than strip those votes from Lab/Lib/SNP/Green/Plaid.

Reform are worse than Tories and I fear if they ever get power, they do a Trump. Damage the country and be hard to remove.

I don't know a great deal, but his stance on the Russia/Ukraine war concerns me.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/02/jeremy-corbyn-urges-west-to-stop-arming-ukraine

Wow I don't know if I've ever come across anyone who holds all of those specific opinions. It's genuinely interesting to me. I'd have expected "he's a raging antisemite" instead of "good on Gaza", given the rest of what you said

Or is it when you say "literally everything else" do you just mean "other foreign policy stuff"?

With them coming on the way they are I'm not sure what makes much difference who wins the election.

Keir is doing a great job alienating the base even without Corbyn.

Lol I mean like since when does Keir do anything but bend down to the Tories and Reform

It's funny to me that people use the two party race argument, using reform over conservatives, and not realising the irony in saying the same can't be done with labour.

Kiers labour is an authoritarian government cosplaying as left wingers. Enforcing the OSA, refusing to even investigate let alone restrict our nations role in the Gaza genocide & appeasing a pseudo-hostile fascist dictator at the expense of the common worker in the UK are all facets of a centre to right gov, rather than left. The party is rotten; full of bad actors only intent on kicking the can further down the same alley.

If you have a vote in the English/Welsh Greens leadership election vote for Polanski then.

He's stated a willingness to work with this new party so they don't put forward candidates in the same seats and compete with each other. The other candidates have done no such thing and are greedily and delusionally running on the idea that they can convince enough people to vote Green that the Green party will be able to enact change on its own.

Labour are not left wing, that is evident from the last year.

The Lib Dems are not left wing and will sell their principles for a whiff of power.

A Polanski led Green Party working in tandem with the Corbyn/Sultana party (and possibly the SNP and Scottish Greens) is the only hope I see of the left enacting any serious change. One of the most important of which being proportional representation.

Starmer is not even left — he's properly into Tory spreadsheet economic algorithms.