‘Having witnessed this Group from the inside, I am clear that it is not a safe and welcoming space for all Green Party members, especially those who are trans or non-binary ‘ tweeted Chesca Walton on 29th September in a personal account of her mandate.
Exhausted by witnessing behaviour including outright ‘dehumanisation, harassment, intimidation and gas lighting’, she informs the big wide world that having had to use the Green Party ‘s disciplinary process, it just is ‘not fit for purpose’.
Having engaged on repeated occasions with the Party’s mediation service, she concludes that the whole process should be ‘moved to an external body’.
Finally getting nowhere with ‘begging the Leadership, the Green Party Regional Council and the Executive Committee’ and intensely frustrated with little action forthcoming, she announces that she will not be standing for any Green Party Women’s committee position in the new year.
Reading like a very personal account of all her highly exciting and rewarding activities ‘outside of Green Party Women’ during her 10 months mandate, and not to be confused with the official report from the Green Party Women’s Committee submitted by co-chair Zoe Hatch for the AGM, Chesca Walton proceeds to thank the many members and non-members who have ‘reached out to her’ with support, kind words, gifts and actions of encouragement.
In conclusion, she claims that the committee she has been co-chairing since January 2023 has ‘failed to meet one of the two basic requirements of a Liberation Group’. Which one of those two basic requirements she is alluding to is not made entirely clear.
What is clear from the actual Green Party Women annual report submitted to the Party’s AGM is that the Committee has more than successfully fulfilled its constitutional aims and three objectives.
Chesca Walton then proceeds to end the 4 pages long co-chair’s ‘report’ by calling for the 5000 strong Green Party Women’s Special Interest Group to simply be disaffiliated from the Party. In other words, that it be shut down.
Calls for such drastic action to be taken against members of the Party who do not agree with the apparent and dominant identity politics world view within the Green Party is nothing new. Demands for disaffiliation for ideological reasons is also very much part of the long history of green identinarians connected with the Scottish Greens who keep meddling in the internal affairs of the GPEW.
The mechanism whereby such discriminatory action within the Green Party of England and Wales could possibly ever be considered would be if members of the Equality and Diversity Committee (E&D) responded positively to any such call from representatives of one or more Special Interest Groups. Any decisions made by the E&D committee would then be submitted to the 20 elected regional representatives serving on the Green Party Regional Committee for their consideration.
Note: the existing E&D Committee is likely to be renamed the Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee (EEDI).
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