What Do the Polls Indicate for Green Politics?
Current party membership levels in October 2025 are:
- Labour 309,000
- Reform UK 250,000
- Conservative 123,000
- Greens 88,000
- Lib Dems 60,000
With support surging for Greens and Lib Dems, we could be looking at a left-leaning hung parliament, especially if the new Your Party takes off. YouGov polling in July 2025 found that 18% of the UK electorate would be open to voting for this new party co-led by Jeremy Corbyn, and 31% would be open to voting for a united ticket between it and the Greens.
The party was formed by members of the Independent Alliance, a small group of MPs that sit in the House of Commons but do not support any particular political party.
YouGov found 25% of under-30s said they would never vote Labour. In the year since the election, Labour has gone from dominating the youth vote, to being a three-way race with Greens and Lib Dems. Reform (despite the headlines) isn’t even close. University of Exeter
In September 2025, voting intentions of the UK electorate look like this:
- Reform 34%
- Labour 22%
- Conservative 14%
- Greens 12%
- Lib Dems 12%
- Other 6%
So if you do the maths, you can see that it’s perfectly possible that a combination of the smaller parties could (with a few more votes) overtake Reform UK. There is real change happening here, so it pays to stay positive!
George Thinks Zack Can Win!
Political environmental journalist George Monbiot knows his polls and politics, and thinks that Zack’s election as leader may be the beginning when our ‘political drought’ begins to break. Although a fan of the other leadership candidates, he says that the only way to counter the momentum of Reform UK is with a leader who is as equally brash and loud.
He says the way that Zack can get through is that he is a genuine person with a genuine history (son of a hardware shop owner, with a partner who works in a hospice). He’s a gay Jewish vegan, who tends to see the good in everyone.
George says paradoxically that rather than changing the system, Reform UK (that has taken over £2 million in donations from polluting companies) ‘is the system’ that needs change.
Rather than feeling defeated, the truth is that despite their poll popularity, most people don’t actually support them (they just head the polls of people who support political parties). So there is a huge vacuum for people completely fed up of all politics to vote Green, or even have them merge with Lib Dems, Plaid Cmyru and possibly Your Party, in a hung parliament.
A man was on his first day out of prison, to work in a bakery. He arrived, terrified of his new life. He was a little late, because it had been years since he’d used public transport, and there was a cup of tea waiting for him. A simple act of kindness, from one stranger to another.
That’s what this country is, when it’s at its best. It’s thoughtful, it’s considerate and it’s kind. Hateful, divisive politics is on the ballot paper. We can and must reject that. Let’s instead look after each other. Let’s go! Zack Polanski, Green Party leader
One voice is tiny. And alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics, as usual. The people’s voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar. Ross Perot (independent US Presidential candidate).
A politics of struggle is rooted in values, vision and above all trust. It doesn’t say ‘Vote for me and I’ll fix everything’. It says ‘If I get elected, I will not just work for you, I will work with you. When citizens recognise this, they build stronger movement that is about transforming a city, a nation and maybe the world. Bernie Sanders (independent US presidential candidate)
If you can’t put your values into your vote, we don’t have a democracy. Dr Jill Stein (2024 Green Party presidential candidate, who placed third place in the popular vote, but her party won no seats, due to unfair voting systems).
The only difference between Republic and Democratic parties, is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor, when corporations knock on their door. Ralph Nader (independent Presidential candidate)
