u/Apart-Clothes2060

I have heard absorbed a lot of discussion around whether or not the greens should stand a candidate in Makerfield, and if so should they campaign as hard as they did in Gorton and Denton. I think this fundamentally misses the point of how the Green Party works.

By its very nature the Green Party is decentralized, so the decision of whether they stand a candidate is up to the locals. It seems as though they will stand a candidate (thats what I’ve heard). As a less hierarchical organization the question of how hard the greens campaign is up to individual greens (and friends) themselves. If the Makerfield Greens stand a candidate it will be up to that candidate to pitch themselves not only to the voters of the constituency but to Green campaigners as well.

For my part I think it would have been nice to wring some concessions out of Burnham but he seems to have largely ruled that out. If he loses to Reform it will not be the fault of the Green Party, it will be the fault of Andy Burnham for refusing to offer PR before the next general election.