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Mostly because I dislike the attention
A colleague ran as a green candidate and it attracted the worst kind of social media attention, people posting online his house and car calling him a fraud for not having an EV, all kinds of odd things, unsurprisingly the have chosen not to run again
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I'm already travelling the World and meeting with C-level people
Insert your own meaning for what c stands for here
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Anyhow... I donated, and was then surprised to get an email last week saying "be our candidate" :lolz: , seemingly the requirement to be a Green candidate in an extremely safe Labour seat is "has donated something".
Was that for where you live? If so, I'd be surprised the Greens couldn't have put up a GE candidate there, but I guess that's because I live in Hackney, where I think they are able to cover all the council wards (or they once were and I've just remembered that even if it was a one-off), and they certainly haven't had any problems in putting up parliamentary candidates.
If they were asking you to be a candidate in another safe Labour seat somewhere else, of course it's not a surprise that they can't contest all seats.
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I've been a paper candidate in council elections for the Greens for years. In our area it does generally go to someone who has been in the party for a number of years & had some standing (I am not by much of an active member though). My partner was the GE candidate against one of the current Labour front bench a few years back but she is very active.
We don't have a huge amount of money to play around with, so generally candidates are only selected if there's a good chance of getting the money back. That's more likely if there's consistency over elections with candidates.
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Two weeks ago I donated to the Greens, not a great deal, but not tiny either. Mostly because they were the only party seemingly not seeking to bring back Section 28 via the Cass report, specifically excluding all education on LGBTQIA+ things to the young and preventing any sex education until almost secondary school.
Anyhow... I donated, and was then surprised to get an email last week saying "be our candidate" :lolz: , seemingly the requirement to be a Green candidate in an extremely safe Labour seat is "has donated something". For a brief moment I even considered it, because why not... it's a paper candidacy and nothing more, they even say "you don't have to do any campaigning as we won't be supporting you in this"... a pure "give voters the option of choosing Green, but in this seat we haven't a hope in hell".
I procrastinated long enough to have received the email this morning that only one person responded by the deadline and so they are our candidate. Yay... being lazy works :)
Absolutely amazed that this is all that is required though... just a tiny donation and to now be on their email list.
Why did I not respond? Mostly because I dislike the attention and don't want to be the focus of any when I'm already travelling the World and meeting with C-level people. I'm weird enough and those meetings are strange enough, without adding in "they're also a trans candidate for the Green party in the parliamentary election" as an added weird factor.