Would Caroline Lucas, or indeed anyone in the Green Party, have guessed back in 2010, when Lucas won the Brighton Pavilion seat and became the UK’s first Green MP,
“let us turn our faces to the future again. Our adversaries have succeeded in their revolution. Its fruits will be bitter, but there is opportunity in this crisis.”
Rather than blaming Corbyn/Brexit and retreating into nativist neoliberalism, Labour must ally itself more deeply with those already fighting – and winning – that better world.
