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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.
Oliver Schick-
Yes, for where I live in N8.
I did look, the local party photos appear to be about 8 people 🤣 and most of them are councillors in Haringay already, there was one that seemed to be lined up to be the contender but they've shifted to Labour and want to contest a seat up North... so it does look like they have slim pickings.
It's a very safe Labour seat, https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3538/election/397 and Green barely scores above national average for them. So the local party focusing on council and London elections makes a lot of sense.
They have picked their candidate now anyway, so I'm thankfully off the hook.
Velocio
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.