Green Youth Surge Driven by Progressive Values, Not Economics

Green youth surge driven by progressive values, not economics

A popular narrative on both the Left and the Right is that the rise of the Green Party reflects young Britons’ struggles to buy a house and manage the cost of living. But this phenomenon is explained less by rent than it is by progressive social views. In the wake of the Greens’ victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election last month, a YouGov poll showed the party in second place nationally, with 21% support. The age dynamics were especially st…

What Does the Green Party Really Want?

Following their Trip episode on Ecology, the ACFM crew take a closer look at the Greens as Zack Polanski’s party nudges past Labour in national polls. Have the Greens got what it takes to become the main political vehicle of the radical left? Or is a blue-green coalition still a possibility? And can the party become the site of the kind of weird left culture celebrated by ACFM? Whither Acid Polanskism? From the 60s dream of ‘steady state economi…