Labour supporter Jack Monroe defects to Green Party

[Gumbo Robot]

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Anti-poverty food blogger cites concerns about Labour's stance on immigration

...and there I was thinking working class girl finally comes to her senses & realises what labour's open door immigration policy has done for communities such as the one she comes from.

But no...

Apparently they're TOO TOUGH on immigration!

She added she was very "uncomfortable with recent statements on food banks, immigration, welfare" by Labour.

Must have missed that one myself....

in an ideal world she hoped to see "a Labour/SNP/Green coalition"

Ideal world? My God - has she really taken on board what the greens are proposing?

We would need a complete and utter tyranny to get those policies implemented...

But still, WGAS - I suppose she has to write tripe like this to keep the money rolling in from the Guardian.

[MicrosoftBob]

It worked for Toynbee, make millions attacking the evils of capitalism, then go and live in Tuscany away from the plebs

[SueEllen]

Labour are going to close food banks.

[DimPrawn]

It worked for Toynbee, make millions attacking the evils of capitalism, then go and live in Tuscany away from the plebs

Another vile Champagne Socialist, Tony Bliar must be very proud.

[pjclarke]

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Ideal world? My God - has she really taken on board what the greens are proposing?

Have you?

[DodgyAgent]

Have you?

easy really. They are self loathing liberal attention seekers.

[NickFitz]

Not sure which is more pathetic: that the Telegraph think reposting something from somebody's Instagram account is journalism, or that you lot think it's worthy of comment

[DodgyAgent]

Not sure which is more pathetic: that the Telegraph think reposting something from somebody's Instagram account is journalism, or that you lot think it's worthy of comment

It is an opinion that she has expressed in public. Does that the fact that it was posted on instagram invalidate it?

[NickFitz]

It is an opinion that she has expressed in public. Does that the fact that it was posted on instagram invalidate it?

Not exactly hard-hitting journalism, is it? What's tomorrow's front page lead - something about a bloke in Skelmersdale posting a pic of his fish fingers on Facebook?

[pjclarke]

The Girl Called Jack expands ...

For a long time now I have found myself defending my membership of the Labour party while wondering what values of mine it defended any more. I didn’t leave the Labour party. It left me, and many others besides. Yet we, the “defectors”, are lambasted as traitors, since it’s easier to launch personal attacks than political arguments, easier to insult and scaremonger than to reflect on why so many core and loyal voters are edging away uncomfortably. “Vote Green and you’ll get Tories!” they shriek at me. I voted Labour last year. I got Tories. There are no guarantees in a first-past-the-post system that we get the government that represents us.

The joy of living in a free and democratic country is that you can work out what your fundamental ethics and values are and vote for someone who you feel represents them. Oh for proportional representation: perhaps politics would be less brutally tribal. Perhaps politicians, at all levels, would do better to focus on their policies and shout loudly about those.

Forget what I’m doing; my little ballot-paper cross means as much as the next person’s. The only person whose vote you should care about is your own. Because if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything – and many a glossy leaflet shoved through your front door over the next seven weeks will be relying on exactly that.

I didn

And, to keep the debate at the required level for CUK: I would.