So far, every party has put a piece of paper containing slightly misleading polling data through my door. The Green Party was the only one where the polls were ones that did not make them look more popular than they are.

The sad thing here is that locally the LDs and Greens were working together, because they were aligned on policy. That's gone now here because the trust is gone.

Not sure about your locale, but in Cambridge (where the council has flipped between Labour and Lib Dem repeatedly) is not positive. The main thing that the Lib Dems do is blame Labour for things (and vice versa). Both parties are far more concerned with playing the blame game than actually improving things.

They managed to reach consensus with Labour on introducing a congestion charge (which would have improved air quality and public safety), and then chickened out at the last minute and blamed the thing that they'd been supporting for the previous two years on Labour.

Oh, and they put a thing through my door using two-year-old polling data to try to justify why they're the party most likely to beat Labour.

So, yeah, not going to trust those guys.

please someone correct me, this is only what i remember from school, and its been a while...

I'm new to the UK so this is my first encounter with council politics, but this felt a little bonkers.

Same, though, I'd (otherwise) welcome more Greens, and actually voted for and got a Green MEP at our most recent European Parliament elections, when I figured the D'Hondt method was up to the task!

In reality, it depends where you are. Plaid Cymru, alongside other opposition parties, has taken a firm stand against allowing Palantir to manage NHS patient data.

I have no issues with more Green councillors but the way our local candidate has gone about it, literally lying about the way he has voted and characterising the LDs as supporting county level issues they don't has been a surprise.

Same as our elections generally, my formula:

1. understand the electoral profile of our ward, e.g. here's me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bredbury_and_Woodley_(Stockport_electoral_ward) (2-way "split", across 3 seats, between Labour and Lib Dem, albeit seems the actual current LAB councillors have since gone Indy!).
2. vote for the closest aligned to us out of those with a chance of getting in.

If you look at the way the Greens have conducted themselves here in Winchester any semblence of a different kind of politics from the Greens has been swept away.