The Green Party has previously accused ChangeUK of "vapid centrism"

Green Party members have taken to social media to reject the idea of an alliance with Centrist Remain parties like Change UK and the Liberal Democrats.

Some pro-Remain twitter users have suggested that these three parties, who all support a second referendum, should co-operate in the upcoming European elections.

In England and Wales, to avoid splitting the Remain vote, Change/Lib Dems/Green should form a Remain alliance for the European elections and call themselves The Remain Party. pic.twitter.com/3yfggc339w — James Melville (@JamesMelville) April 10, 2019

However, Green Party of England and Wales co-leader Jonathan Bartley has previously criticised Change UK, formerly known as ‘The Independent Group’.

Writing in the Huffington Post in February, he said they stand for “the vapid centrist politics which helped leave Britain so damaged in the first place.”

He continued: “Far from learning the lessons of the past three years, the Independent Group pinned their colours to the mast of yet another form of the old-school politics the British people are so sick of.”

The Green Party was also a strong opponent of the Liberal Democrats participation in the 2010-2015 coalition government.

The other Green Party co-leader Sian Berry confirmed that the party was not considering the idea of an alliance and suggested discussing it was a waste of energy.

Several Green Party members also took to twitter to reject the idea of an alliance.

Anyone talking of a 'remain alliance' – thank you, next. Green platform is about changing the system that is so damaging to the natural environment, that is hurting the most vulnerable in society. ChangeUK and LibDems both represent austerity politics — Clifford Fleming (@cliffordfleming) April 14, 2019

I wrote @TheGreenParty 2014 Euro election manifesto. It was radical, anti-capitalist, a plan to change Europe – a world away from Lib Dem/CUK centrism. Some kind of Remain alliance on the tepid turf of establishment consensus would be a disaster: https://t.co/fMr6XZzjJE — Adam Ramsay (@AdamRamsay) April 13, 2019

Not interested in calls for a Remain Alliance. It seriously misreads a lot



A) There are huge political differences between the Greens & Lib Dems. Brexit is not the only issue in town. On a European level we have hugely different opinions on TTIP & economic governance. — Benali Hamdache (@greenbenali) April 13, 2019

MAKE IT STOP!!!!!



There is no alliance. It would not be possible to get one on the ballot. Even if anyone within the very different parties/groups wanted one.



And, for everyone's sake, stop thinking of vote shares like Lego blocks that you can reassemble into your own creation. https://t.co/UwTDP853Zv — Owain Sutton (@OwainAlty) April 13, 2019

The Green Party’s education spokesperson Vix Lowthion also pointed out that the Greens and the Liberal Democrats are part of different European parties.

The Greens are part of the European Green Party and the Liberal Democrats are part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

In England, Scotland and Wales, European elections are conducted using the d’Hondt system of proportional representation – regional closed list.

This means that each region is allocated a certain number of seats in the European Parliament. For example, Yorkshire and the Humber has six.

Those six seats are allocated to different parties depending on what percentage of the vote that party got.

So in Yorkshire and Humber’s 2014 election, UKIP got 31% of the vote and three seats. Labour got 29% and two seats and the Tories got 19% and one seat.

In contrast, the Scottish Green Party has signalled that it would co-operate with the Scottish National Party at the next Scottish Parliament election.

This is because both parties are in favour of Scottish independence and want a pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament.

Joe Lo is a freelance journalist and a reporter for Left Foot Forward.

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