Three Scottish Green Councillors defect to Your Party

Three Green councillors, along with one of the city’s top candidates, have defected to Your Party.

NEW: Leading Scottish Green councillors & activists have defected to Your Party 💥

In a statement, they criticised the Scottish Greens’ complicity in cuts and vowed to stand up against austerity, from Holyrood or Westminster ✊️ pic.twitter.com/0BnQDKH9HF

— Your Party (@thisisyourparty) October 24, 2025

The image Your Party used claimed ‘mass defection’, which I’m not sure is entirely accurate. However, this is an important step as they now have their elected representatives in Scotland.

According to The Herald, Seonad Hoy, Dan Hutchison, and Leòdhas Massie, of Glasgow City Council, announced this morning that they will now sit as a group under the Your Party banner.

Two Glasgow MSP candidates and three West of Scotland MSP candidates have also defected to the party.

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But to some, it seems like a strange move. At this point, Your Party do not have a leader, policies, or processes. They don’t even have a definite name until after their founding conference.

YP does not exist. They don’t have policies or processes. There’s no guarantee they’ll be more left wing or socially progressive than SGP already is. Weird move. https://t.co/MjW29Y4fVn

— Dylan Hamilton🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸 (@_DylanHamilton_) October 24, 2025

Especially when there is currently a huge Green surge. 

Especially when Greens are on a bit of the crest of a wave. Bizarre move .

— MrsF (@AyrDelighted) October 24, 2025

Zack clearly IS the Left-wing leader we need in England, and membership has doubled in weeks.
Good luck to them anyway.

— Heather #FundOurNHS 💙 (@heather_c_c) October 24, 2025

According to Your Party, more than a dozen prominent Scottish Greens activists and candidates have left the party.

Ellie Gomersall, who the Greens selected as their second candidate, told The Herald that every existing party in Holyrood was “complicit in passing on brutal cuts to public services”. She also said that only Your Party could be taken seriously to “stand firm against austerity”.

Some social media users agreed. Can you really change the entire ethos of an existing party, or does it take a new one?

This is why I’m sticking with Your Party.

You can’t change the entire ethos and culture of an establishment party with one man. We need a brand new party firmly rooted in democratic socialism from its very inception. Too many Green councillors are ex-Lib Dems.

Fool me once… https://t.co/eniVGIsG7y

— Frank Owen’s Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) October 24, 2025

However, it does raise questions about whether the two parties will be willing to work together in order to keep Reform out.

This is – clearly – the direct consequence of the Scottish Greens conference voting against talks about collaboration with YourParty.

— Adam Ramsay (@AdamRamsay) October 24, 2025

Silly move making a big show of this, it just creates a further Green/Your Party split. Zarah needs better strategic advice. https://t.co/D79PGE7XCx

— Paul McDonald (@Paul_R_McDonald) October 24, 2025

I beg they form coalitions with other leftist parties instead of splitting the vote and using the left to gain power and stroke their egos https://t.co/VTZhLlHkRu

— franki℮ (@eccxke) October 24, 2025

There is no doubt that Sultana and Corbyn’s Your Party was the thing that finally offered hope to many people.

However, we then watched childish arguments and blatant misogyny in what Sultana labelled the “sexist boys club“. It led many of us straight back to despair.

At the same time, we have seen Zack Polanski stand up and offer a credible alternative – and the huge surge in Green Party members tells us that it’s what people need right now.

Luckily, two things can be true at once. While Your Party takes its time figuring out who’s in charge and what they stand for, all we can do is watch elected officials play musical chairs.

Feature image via Your Party/Facebook and Scottish Greens/YouTube