With the upcoming local elections in the uk I am finding it hard to decide where my vote should be going. For one, the answer I always see people giving on this sub and others are the Greens; I cannot reconcile myself to voting Green for a massive number of reasons which have been run into the ground as political discussion topics for months at this point. I also have trouble with the concept of voting Labour due to not wanting to show confidence in the current direction the party is moving towards by pandering to right wing voters and enacting authoritarian policies as well as just failing to do anything particularly social democratish despite their huge majority. This leaves the Lib Dems, which seem less likely to pander to the right wing at this point but also like they have no real interest in moving towards a better solution as opposed to just not making anything worse.
All current polling shows the Greens winning my council decisively and labour dragging behind in second. In my ward we have 3 councillors and it’s looking like it could be either 2 green or 2 labour. The Greens are my least favourite of the 3 options and so I would not like to vote for them but then the tactical option for me is to vote labour which could embolden the party leadership if enough people did so. Voting Lib Dem would probably be a vote for change on the national level without voting green but would be a wasted vote and a vote for a party I don’t particularly care for.
What do other British social democrats make of the current situation and if you were in my shoes what would you do?