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SUMMARY the Evening Got Underway with a Few Words from the Green Party’S New Co- Leader, Jonathan Bartley A progressive alliance: can it work in Lewes? A Green Party discussion event, 14 Sept, Westgate Chapel, Lewes SUMMARY The evening got underway with a few words from the Green Party’s new co- Leader, Jonathan Bartley. He set the scene by talking about the case for a progressive alliance and the prospects for building one, not just in order to get the Tories out of government but as a way of bringing about real change - in our electoral system, and potentially in the way we do politics. Anthony, the local party’s Elections & Campaigns coordinator, then presented some potential options for how a progressive alliance might work, as outlined in The Alternative, a new book of essays co-edited by Caroline Lucas, Labour MP Lisa Nandy and Libdem activist Chris Bowers on issues related to the idea of progressive parties working together. Options ranged from an explicit electoral pact, with parties signing up to an agreed set of common values and policies known as Platform, to simply continuing with tactical voting in marginal seats. These options were presented as food for thought rather than as a set menu from which one choice had to be made. The room then divided into four groups so that discussions could happen on a smaller scale and everyone could have a chance to speak. There were two parallel but closely intertwined questions to explore: How would it work? What do we want to get out of it? What are our ‘lines in the sand’? The following is a selection of the points raised in all the various discussion: A progressive alliance: can it work in Lewes? A Green Party discussion event, 14 Sept, Westgate Chapel, Lewes 1. How would it work? Some form of fully-fledged electoral pact - with the working title ‘Platform’ - was the favoured option among the majority of those present. In the conclusion to their book, The Alternative, Caroline Lucas and her co- authors quote at length a proposal from the Guardian journalist Stephen Moss, who wrote a long feature last summer looking at the possibility of building a new party of the left. His vision of Platform would feature four partners: a socialist Labour, a social democrat Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens. He suggested they could agree a set of common values and policies, and then in any seat put up the candidate most likely to win, eg. a LibDem Platform candidate in Lewes. The others could stand aside, or just put up paper candidates. Paper candidate, to paraphrase Wikipedia, is 'the term often given to a candidate who stands for a political party in a constituency where the party in question enjoys only low levels of support.’ It means that the candidate is really just a name on the ballot paper; the party will usually not actively campaign or seek votes, but are at least offering the electorate the option of voting for that party. Simply standing a paper candidate - sitting on our hands and quietly giving people our blessing to vote LibDem, in order words, doing what we used to do in the Norman Baker years - was strongly rejected: it would be like the Greens simply admitting their own irrelevance, rather than being an activepart of the solution. It was also agreed that standing a paper candidate alongside a Platform candidate could be confusing for voters: we’d be asking them to vote Platform, but still standing as ’Green Party'. On the other hand, some voters will not want to have their choice restricted. It was noted that some members present, and others not present but mentioned anecdotally, would only vote for a Green candidate. Otherwise they would probably not vote at all. ‘After 2010 I swore I would never vote LibDem again - I don’t want vote for anything other than Green’ - local member But a local Platform agreement between Greens, Labour and LibDems, with the active involvement of Greens and with strong commitments to Green priorities A progressive alliance: can it work in Lewes? A Green Party discussion event, 14 Sept, Westgate Chapel, Lewes like electoral reform and swift action on climate change, would be a more positive alternative which the Green Party could actively campaign for - see ‘What we want - Green ‘lines in the sand' An independent candidate - with the progressive seal of approval? One idea in The Alternative was that of a ‘progressive kitemark’, to which candidates at the 2020 election (and even earlier elections) could sign up to demonstrate to their electorate a commitment to a core set of priorities, which would include red lines for all the progressive parties. Some thought that one way to deal with the Gordian knot of competing local parties would be to go independent - put up a ‘Lewes’ Platform candidate, not an actual LibDem candidate. Many Greens and Labour supporters won’t want to put their cross next to LibDem, alliance or no alliance. Such a candidate might have to be selected through some kind of open primary - all the voters in the constituency having a chance to select a candidate to go forward and contest the Tories for the seat. Of course, it was agreed that any alliance of this sort would only work if there was a serious commitment to non-tribalism from the other parties, especially Labour, who have thus far shown little enthusiasm for any kind of alliance, apart a handful of MPs like the aforementioned Lisa Nandy and shadow defence secretary Clive Lewis. There would be a need to 'get Momentum on board’, locally as well as nationally, given that the local Labour party is strongly pro-Corbyn. It was also suggested that we might build up to some form of alliance, develop a form of cooperation over a number of General Elections, starting with an informal agreement not to compete with the LibDems in 2020. Some ideas on how it would work in practice came through; campaign material could be clearly branded as Green, but calling on people to vote Platform. ‘Vote Green? Vote Platform’ posters could sit alongside ‘Vote Libdem? Vote Platform’ posters. For Greens, at local or national level, if we are to agree to a Platform, we need to be clear with the electorate which of the ideas and policies in the platform come from the Greens. We need to insist on our own distinctive vision and identity. A progressive alliance: can it work in Lewes? A Green Party discussion event, 14 Sept, Westgate Chapel, Lewes 2. What we want - Green ‘lines in the sand' This cannot be a coalition of the losers - we’ve got to have a positive message about why we’re doing it. - Neal Lawson, Compass Our primary target is our archaic and unrepresentative electoral system - Molly Scott Cato, MEP ‘…Contemplation of any pact requires us as a party to work even harder to keep our ‘brand’ intact. If we are doing any kind of deals with Labour or LibDems, it makes it all the more important that we insist at every juncture on what is distinctive about us. Otherwise, we’ll go the way of the Irish Greens, [or] the LibDems' - Rupert Read, Eastern region Green Party There has been much talk of a progressive alliance but if this includes the Green Party it should include a policy agreement and dialogue that considers the links between environmental sustainability and limits, and social diversity and equality. - Jonathan Essex, Green Party chair, South East Region The meeting was agreed that an alliance needs to carry a postive message - it can’t just be ‘Tories out’. Amongst other reasons, voters will resent anything perceived as a backroom stitch-up to deprive a certain party of power: it might drive people to the Tories, especially UKIP supporters, as UKIP starts to lose relevance. But an alliance - even a progressive one - might even attract UKIP votes if it had the promise of bringing a fair voting system at its core. Electoral reform: is it a vote-winner? The another question arose: how do we get people to vote for a platform centred on electoral reform? Whether or not they think the system is fair, for the majority of people who don’t take an interest in the nuts and bolts of politics, it’s a difficult thing to get them interested (especially if large sections of the media are hostile, as they were in the AV referendum in 2011). It was suggested that a Platform alliance in the Lewes constituency should campaign on issues that affect the local community: it should work with issue-based lobby groups like Stop TTIP, Lewes Living Wage, and Homes 4 All. The Platform could be implemented at the regional level - across the South East, for example - to ensure some balance in the representation of Platform parties in the area. A progressive alliance: can it work in Lewes? A Green Party discussion event, 14 Sept, Westgate Chapel, Lewes Green ‘lines in the sand’: • Electoral reform: a system of true proportional representation (PR), not a poor compromise like the AV referendum • Greater representation for environmental and social issues, particularly housing • LibDems need to re-establish some credibility • One election only: the alliance is only temporary. Once we have PR, further electoral alliances (as opposed to coalition governments) will be unnecessary anyway • No coalitions with Tories: once the Platform has disbanded, none of its partner parties must use their new position to prop up a Tory government • Europe: a second referendum (NB: ‘second’ as in ‘subsequent’ referendum,on the proposed terms of Brexit - not a re-run of the first referendum. These two ideas are frequently confused) Another possibility was campaigning for proportional representation in council elections.
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