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If you identify as an ecosocialist are you likely to be most at home with your national green party? Local Socialist Party? or neither preferring to associate with grassroots social movements or perhaps a trade union. Maybe some combination of the above? What is available in your particular locality or country may make  your options or lack thereof more plain. Many members of the England & Wales Green Party identify themselves as 'ecosocialist'. There is also an adjoined green/left, ecosocialist, anti-capitalist grouping and a quick look at GP policies and actions over the past year would suggest that in this country, ecosocialists may feel quite at home within the green party. It would be interesting to run a poll to find what percentage of GP members would identify with the label ecosocialist. I will post this in as many green party and ecosocialist forums as I can find. I will limit this poll to GP England and Wales, but will gladly create more polls that may provide some insight for the above questions (Let me know if you have a question that a poll could help answer, perhaps country specific)

If you do or do not identify as an ecosocialist it would be interesting to know your reasoning, which you can add in to the comments box. Many Thanks.

 
 
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Nick Clegg referred to it as a 'miserable little compromise' (Choice words Cleggy) and has since been arguing the case for the yes camp. The green party is in favour. The yes vote is ahead in the polls. Thought it would be interesting to conduct a poll of our own, why? Because we can!


Comments from discussion forums:
  • Vote no to AV and you will be stuck with FPTP forever and never get any closer to full PR.
  • A socialist would vote for AV as the progressive move it is. Only those who have put party interest higher than that would deny it .
  • I vote for one party and one candidate I have no interest in giving a 2nd preference, 3rd, 4th and so on to other parties and why should I.
  • It's more democratic than FPTP.
  • Just think it will confuse voters, most people I have spoken to just have a firm idea who they want to win. Can understand why Greens want it, good second choice for a lot of people though if you are last in the first round that becomes irrelevant anyway
  • It's been great in Papa New Guinea
  • Tories and Lib Dems will always give the other their 2nd preference or 1st preference depending on who stands the best chance of winning. So you will have a stitch up
  • Candidates will have to work much harder under AV