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Politics is all about making these coalitions, though.
The Greens managed to pull that off last time, winning in both urban, previously Labour constituencies and rural Tory ones.
Johnson's great achievement was to build a coalition that spanned the elite and enough working class voters in Labour red wall seats to give him a majority.
Next time it will be harder for the Greens in the Tory areas, though. Virtually all of their second places, from which they will select their targets, are in Labour seats - so I'd expect them to double down on a positioning to the left of Labour. And Labour has left an awful lot of space there.
If Tories lurch further to the right under their new leader the best outcome for them is if the centerists they lose are split between Labour and LD. The nightmare is if one gets them all as more electorally efficient.
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Sure, coalitions are important, but probably more so if you’re trying to gain/retain power. The Greens are a long way off from that, so like you said they’ll probably double down on positioning to the left of Labour.
Which is a shame in some ways, as green politics sometimes seems like it’s viewed/used by some on the left merely as a convenient wrapper for attacking the centre. I hope to be proved wrong about that.
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Johnson's great achievement
It wasn't Johnson's achievement but his election strategists'. He had no part in it.
rodan
Oliver Schick
Yes the Greens are very interesting on that front, the disaffected ex-Labour left who make up a decent proportion of their swelling support make very strange bedfellows with the rural, ex-Tory NIMBYs you describe, however I reckon they might find a more natural fit with the LibDems eventually.
@dubtap
That’s the sort of thing you could mention in a comment on Conservative Home, if you really wanted to upset them.