The 5 days civil court case “Shahrar Ali versus the Green Party of England and Wales” will be in its third day on Wednesday 23rd August. A long service and loyal member, former Deputy Leader Ali was unceremoniously – and arguably unconstitutionally – demoted from his appointed role as spokesperson for Policing and Domestic Safety by the party’s Executive in February 2022.
Ali is arguing that his belief that “transwomen are women and trans men are men” because of their gender and not because of their biological sex – as Stonewall’s definition of transgenderism would have us believe – which is protected in law under the Equality Act of 2010 was the main cause of his demotion, following a harrowing history of bullying and harassment.
Witnesses for the Green Party, which include the former and existing Chief Executives, former MEP Molly Scott Cato, former co-leader Jonathan Bartley and the CEO Mary Clegg will defend the party’s borrowed Stonewall’s definition of transphobia and their record in support for the transgender community.
Witnesses for the Defendant Shahrar Ali are much loved and respected Zoe Hatch, former member of the Executive and the existing co-chair of the Green Party Women, Julia Lagoute former Internal Communication officer on the Executive and Rashid Nix, also a former member of the Executive serving as the Equality and Diversity officer.
No doubt Labour Party leader Sir Keir Stamer, former Director of Public Prosecutions, and all political parties on the left in particular will be – or so they should be – watching this trial with interest, not to mention panic .
This trial is not just about the machinations of a clique captured by the ideology of identity politics and running a sect whilst pretending to be a democratic political party, it may indeed mark a turning point in reinstating the right to Free Speech for members of all political parties within our parliamentary democracies. And restore academic freedom in the process.
The Green Light 