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How "normal" is this, can you tell? (Not that anything in British politics is normal any more.)

Disregard the two who must resign because they've been elected as mayors - that's reasonable. That's still 6 Greens and 5 Reform. I expect no better from Reform - but from Greens, who should know better, this is really disappointing.

🌍 Green Regent's Park (Camden) - Ineligible North Acton (Ealing) - Resigned Dalston (Hackney) - Elected Mayor Hackney C. (Hackney) - Resigned Northumberland Park (Haringey) - Dsq. Clapham Park (Lambeth) - Resigned Streatham St Leonard's (Lambeth) - Resigned Crofton Park (Lewisham) - Elected Mayor

➡️ Reform Rayleigh West (Essex) - Resigned High Fell (Gateshead) - Resigned Sweyne Park & Grange (Rochford) - Resigned Haydock (St Helens) - Resigned Hylton Castle (Sunderland) - Resigned

When is the MSM going to report on this?

Why. Why are they resigning? 6 departures is NOT a good look.

2 were teachers and aren't allowed to be councillors, 1 resignation was for health reasons, 1 was because they were arrested - ?!, and 2 we don't know

Are they vetting their candidates ?

I don’t think so. They’ve no understanding of how local politics works.

Usually if you want to win in America you talk to local party leaders and community movers and shakers BEFORE you file paperwork to run. Do things work that way in the UK or are Reform and Green just not worried about candidates other than the leader ?

Which parties vet their candidates via selection committees? Labour, Tories, SNP, Lib Dems? Plaid Cymru, SNP, Sinn Fein, DUP, UUP, Alliance, SDLP?

What about the other parties just for context.....?

I'm curious to know the reasons for resignation…

Sorry Green Party but this is pisspoor. You can do better. To outperform fucking RefUK when it comes to crap selection takes some doing. Proportionate to councillors elected it gets worse still. And as the OP notes in response to a direct question, the answer for everyone else is zero.

It shows a lack of due diligence in picking candidates and some were paper candidates. An utter waste of local bye elections when council are strapped for cash.

I agree. I do think the party needs a bit of slack due to rapid expansion (and without the massive funds flowing into RefUK) but they need to get on to this fast. You can't claim to be the leading left-of-centre party and then be a clown show.