"On a dreary Saturday morning, they stream in from all over London, hare along Kent's A-roads, pour off Suffolk and Surrey trains, to converge on this primary school. It's the largest venue the volunteers could hire and the corridors, the loos, even the little library with its impressive range of Julia Donaldsons, are all heaving with grownups. We cram into the assembly hall, where the crowd is declared as the biggest turnout in Green history."
"This winter is a hinge moment in British politics, the point at which the default choice of leftwing voters is no longer Labour. In Wales, it will be Plaid Cymru; in Scotland, the SNP. And in this corner of inner London, as in many English cities, it will be the Greens. For this position, the party owes much to its opponents, among them Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana and their genius advisers for so swiftly turning Your Party into a sparsely attended wake."
A weekend Green party meeting in Lewisham drew roughly 600 activists from across the region, filling a primary school and creating the largest turnout in Green history. Volunteers occupied corridors, restrooms and the small library as they prepared for local council campaigns months before ballots. The surge signals a winter hinge in British politics where the default leftwing vote is shifting away from Labour toward Greens, Plaid Cymru in Wales and the SNP in Scotland. The Greens' rise owes partly to leftwing competitors who fragmented Labour's appeal and largely to the perceived failures of Keir Starmer's Labour.
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