The Green party is failing, here's why.

The invisible crisis dividing Britain - and how we fix it.

The video above shows the Green Party’s biggest political failure today.

It reveals the gap we Greens need to bridge, and aren’t, between Reform members and us.

It shows that Nigel Farage’s voters want many of the same things we Greens do.

Yet, the only messaging that makes many Reform voters feel heard is Farage’s.

Why is this happening? Why are we failing?

It is not just about semantics and political posturing - it’s that many of the things the left says do not help the people struggling to feel heard.

When Farage’s voters (especially the large majority of Reform’s base who come from relatively impoverished areas vs wealthier, on average, Green constituencies) hear us talk about how we need to help immigrants, and give them hotels…

they hear;

“We can’t afford our bills, to feed our kids, no one helped us, and you’re helping them, and you, like everyone else, don’t care about us.”

they feel;

Betrayal.

they experience;

The reality that poverty in the UK is, at best, invisible and, at worst, a reason to be ashamed.

they hear;

Poverty is their individual responsibility and an expression of their failure.

… Perhaps best captured explicitly in the idea of benefit scroungers (which most of us would never align with).

But more implicitly, every time, we call them stupid, for being angry, of their lived reality, that no one cared, and so they placed their hope in someone who might be different, we reinforce the same message.

(Levels of education and wealth have a strong positive correlation).

And, when we call them stupid, because they stood in hopeless anger, against others, who are not them, but get support when they don’t.

they hear, feel, and experience;

We don’t care.

And that we are blind to it.

So, why does this matter?

Because this gap. This blindness. To the reality so many of us live through daily, is tearing our country apart.

We, as Greens, must address this gap in our country, in our messaging, in our focus, and in our policies. We must prioritise tackling wealth inequality.

Reading this, you might wonder, why I am a Green member?

Simply: because I know my values - compassion, sustainability, respect, dignity, and democracy.

And, I believe the Green Party is the only party in Britain that represents my values.

The Greens, represent the potential of change.

But we, as Greens, must also realise: strong values are not enough to drive the change we need.

Strong values, without change, especially when many are left behind, is moral purity.

Success is not holding onto ideals.

Success is realising our values in the society we live in.

And for the people, we live with.

And, if we close our eyes to the reality people face, that isn’t success. It’s wilful blindness.

So I think, as Greens, poverty is the gap. The demographic data makes this clear: despite our values, we are not addressing, or communicating, effectively enough, about the biggest challenges people face.

The invisible poor in Britain, left behind.

And, the millions of hard-working ordinary people across our country, who are slowly starting to realise that things, are getting worse, not better.

That their hard work, doesn’t work.

How can we fix this?

The Greens, are not a promise - we represent years of values and progress.

The type of progress, that millions in Britain need.

And, which other parties, new and old, can only ever promise, but will never deliver.

Because, the lack of the right values, will, also, never, deliver the right results.

But to move beyond our success, and into the future, we must now recognise - the biggest challenge we face is not climate change.

The biggest crisis we face today is:

The crisis of wealth inequality.

Sweeping Britain.

Because, a divided country, will never be a Green one.

Our society, and our country, is broken. Fractured.

Divided against itself.

But, I believe, as I outline here; together, we can fix this.

The crisis of wealth inequality is tearing Britain apart. If we don’t confront it now, no party, not even the Greens, will succeed in building the future we all need.

Dee.