Why do people vote for the Green Party?

I would never vote Green Party.

It's one thing to be a single issue party but I find they cater more to the misguided and ideologically naive elements of environmentalism rather than of practical concerns and realistic policies.

As a rule any party that is anti-nuclear power is immediately filed under 'Ignore & Never Vote For'.


Enjoy exercising your democratic rights!

Yet research has shown that Green Party voters have a higher average IQ than voters of all other UK parties.

And FYI, if you live in a safe seat, which more than half of voters in the UK do, then your vote is worthless regardless of which party you vote for.

I wouldn't get into the business of comparative IQ studies. Debate policies please, not IQ scores.

Hipsters
People who believe in global warming
People for whom gay rights is number 1 issue

they probably appeal most to the people have haven't realised that socialism has already been tried in the past and didn't work for us

Proper socialism has never been tried.

They believe that humans are a plague on the planet and that authoritarian measures such as high tax and government regulations must be imposed on the public.

They are anti-growth, telling us we need to reduce our consumption when in fact we should be increasing it so we can increase prosperity for all humans.

They oppose nuclear energy even though it is much more efficient and cheaper than renewables.

They're a left-wing protest vote when there are no real left-wing options to vote for. The big three are all different flavours of centre-right and right-wing neoliberalism, and UKIP are far-right nationalists. Their environmental and science policies are generally terrible but they are pretty much the only party that recognises that these problems need to be higher policy priorities rather than just paying lip service to them. They're the kind of party where the country's politics would be better for having them more involved in the debate, but would need serious internal reform before they would be capable of effective governance.

Well, we kind of are. We comsume rescources and give little back to the environement. we're the only species to do this.

I cba to reply to this point, you're either trolling or just plane stupid.

Believe me when I say, it really, really, really isn't cheaper.

Yet research has shown that Green Party voters have a higher average IQ than voters of all other UK parties.

And FYI, if you live in a safe seat, which more than half of voters in the UK do, then your vote is worthless regardless of which party you vote for.

Yet research has shown that Green Party voters have a higher average IQ than voters of all other UK parties.

And FYI, if you live in a safe seat, which more than half of voters in the UK do, then your vote is worthless regardless of which party you vote for.

Is this like the apparent research that showed that Democrats had higher IQ than Republicans in the US, only for it to turn out to be completely made up? Or the good old Firefox users vs IE users that fooled everyone a few years back?
Pretentious liberals have a habit of falling hook, line and sinker for dubious studies that back up their apparent superiority.

Considering the average UK IQ is 100, I'm not even going to point out the obvious flaw in those figures.

Even if they were true, the data is based on IQ tests they took when they were ten. Clearly some people wised up as they got older while others didn't.

Furthermore, it is entirely down to the choice of the individual as to how much they decide they want to work. I did a year working for a large multinational in a typical office job - it was so relaxed it was mind-numbing. Of my 7 'work' hours a day I probably only really had to put any effort in for 2 hours. Most of my time was spent browsing the net or chatting to colleagues - all of whom did the same.

I would not disputethe IQ range of Green voters and by that logic you would assume they must be best for the job. The reason I am put off by them as is a large proportion of the electorate, they want to equally focus on issues like the environment ( I actually think everything they say on this issue is true), social welfare and general socialism alongside issues such as the economy, immigration, education and health. I want a party that focuses primarily on the economy and education for example. These minor concerns for the whole population (Various polls find immigration, the economy and EU are greatest concerns) take up too much time, money and effort. It would be awesome if we could have complete social, economic, environmental and political stability but that seems like a perfect world. Greens want to highlight all these issues while at least Tories follow the economic trend, labour the social instability and UKIP the European concerns as their primary message.