A dedicated and valuable member for 16 years, Mike has served the Green Party as Parliamentary candidate for Stafford between 2010 & 2015 and Staffordshire Moorlands in 2017. Mike was elected as co-chair of The Green Party Regional Council between 2014 & 16, sharing the post with Freda Davies, a leading member of the Seniors Group.
This is his letter of resignation dated 15th June 2024
For the attention of the Chief Executive of the Green Party: Mary Clegg
Dear CEO ,
Though I still believe that the Green Party is potentially the best Party for the planet and social justice, I cannot continue as a member. This is because Governance has become to a significant extent both incompetent and considerably morally corrupt.
A victimisation culture is operating in Governance denying free speech and not operating according to natural justice.
As the former GPRC Co-Chair who co-ordinated the establishment of the Disciplinary Committee and its associated Standing Orders , I am appalled to see anonymous complaints granted so-called No Fault Suspensions against exemplary members by a clearly factional Identity Politics zealotry dominating GRPC (as well as dominating SOC and DC.)
My place is now to campaign for restoration of decency in the Party with de-selected Green Party candidate Alison Teal for Sheffield Central.
I hope to return one day but that will not be until there is a return to progressive values and the prioritising of the ecological crises.
Mike Shone
Cannock Chase Green Party
Further explanation for members:
“Though I am resigning for the reasons given in my letter to the CEO of the GPEW and for other reasons to do with the degrading of the Party principally at national level, I want to stress that I am not for the moment giving up on the Green Party.
The country needs a fully functioning and progressive Green Party. Labour is never likely to be ecologically concerned enough being subject to the power of Unions such as Unite protecting fossil fuel jobs. Labour also oscillates between being unelectable, being disconnected from the mass of the electorate (Corbyn , Tony Benn) and too conservative and desperate to be elected like now under Starmer and previously under Blair.
I am fed up with the atmosphere in the Party, so it suits me to attempt to expose its inadequacies from the outside whilst others try to reform it accordingly from the inside. I will publish a fuller statement about the degeneration of the Party at national level soon.”
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