tracking how the green party has become the party of identity politics

22022 – 2023

January 2022

Members of the 4000 strong Green Party Women Special Interest Group elect their committee with a minority of transgender activists.  

Having failed to secure the disaffiliation of  Green Party Women from the Equality and Diversity Committee with help from the Standing Orders Committee, Sian Berry and Carla Denyer immediately instigate the launch of a new and “inclusive” Feminist Greens group.

Feminist Greens  gained recognition from the Equality and Diversity committee in 2024.

February

A majority of members of the Executive voted to suspend Dr Shahrar Ali as re-elected spokesperson for policing and domestic safety because of his ‘gender critical’ views.

Sian Berry tweets: “ I am glad to see a wise decision made today by the party executive. And again, to apologise to members and allies that I was not able to ensure our actions matched our values at a much earlier stage in what I know has been a personally painful process for many of you “.

On 9^th February 2024, Judge HHJ Hellman ruled at the Civil Court hearing Dr Shahrar Ali versus The Green Party of England and Wales that “ the removal of had been procedural unfair”  and that he “could not rule out the possibility ( which has been the Party’s to disprove) that this procedural unfairness has been due to the Claimant’s protected belief”. 

Dr Ali was awarded £9,100 for injury to feelings. The Green Party Executive was subsequently ordered to pay £90,000 towards his legal cost. It has been estimated that the total cost of this case to members of the Green Party will have amounted to between £350, 000 and £400,000

May

An anonymous complaint with allegations of harassment and bullying on behalf of non-binary co-chair of Green Party Women Ani Townsend Stafford against 6 members of the committee who hold the view that sex is biological is submitted to the Disciplinary Committee by “redacted”.

Two years later in July 2024, the complaint was suddenly withdrawn with no explanation given to the 6 respondents. The Disciplinary Committee’s decision to agree to that request cleared the way for Bristol Councillor Ani Townsend Stafford to rapidly ascent into the party’s instruments of governance as national Election Returning Officer.

Diverse Matters’ Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI ) Audit is published. Recognising the “current backdrop of conflict regarding sex and gender”, the report said :

“ While it is absolutely imperative that individuals are allowed freedom of thought and expression (in the context of upholding human rights and responsibilities), this can only be achieved with clear boundaries and standards of behaviours set for a collective. Numerous complaints – from both targets and bystanders of harassment, bullying, antisemitism, homophobia, racism and general bias were evidenced by participants and by Diverse Matters”.

Under the heading “Challenges and areas of development”, the report commented that these behaviours were not being managed effectively and a negative “ virus” was damaging the Party’s culture.

Consutlants also identified a mistrust in the complaints system with “questions about its objectivity and effectiveness”.

Executive Committee Chair Liz Reason subsequently disclosed that trans activists on the Executive insisted that the report be redacted before publication. All words associated with women and biological sex such as ‘sexism’ and ‘misogyny’ were deleted as causes of complaints.

The Green Light can confirm that a search word applied to the 69 pages long report for “biological sex,”, ” sexism” and “misogyny” shows ‘no result‘.

Such unethical interference with a consutlants’ report paid for by members of the party which grossly distorted the findings has in effect made it impossible to implement its long list of recommendations, bar the appointment of an EDI officer.

July

LGBTIQA+ Greens Zac Polanski is elected Deputy Leader.

At the hustings, he accused rival candidate Dr Shahrar Ali of siding with Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on trans rights and confirmed that he was “ sitting with Caroline Lucas, Sian Berry, Amelia Womack”.

August

The Executive committee election produces a majority of 9 trans activists out of 13 members.

Standing for the chair of the Equality and Diversity committee, identinarian Kefentse Dennis expresses the view  that the Green Party is institutionally racist.

Quizzed on transphobia by Bright Green editor Chris Jarvis the candidate shares his concern that members are too fearful to talk about the issue and admits that achieving a consensus “ is going to take a very, very long time”.

October

Conference prioritises the motion ‘ Solidarity with Drag Queen storytime/hour’ proposed by Young Greens and LGBTIQA+ greens  over a motion about the climate emergecy.

A member of Greens in Exile, tree campaigner Alison Teal and democratically selected parliamentary candidate for Sheffield Central is accused of transphobia and suspended from membership of the party.

Her suspension will result in her being barred from standing as the Green Party candidate for Sheffield Central at the 2024 general election.

November

GPRC holds an Emergency meeting with support from SOC seeking to suspend members of the Green Party Women’s committee.

December

Scottish Greens sponsored Gender Recognition Reform Bill is debated and approved by Holyrood MSPs.

Self-identification gains legal status. This will be the stumbling block to the bill being approved by the House of Parliament. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s failure to define “what is a woman ?” is also widely acknowledged to have contributed to her demise in March 2023.

The GPEW adopted self-identification for trans people as policy at its Spring Conference of 2021.

2023

February

Publication of Dr Hilary Cass Interim report

This report challenges Tavistock’s ‘affirmative approach’ as practiced by Gender Clinics for a decade with 9000 children presenting with gender dysphoria. As a result of the report, the NHS decides to stop the prescription of puberty blockers.

Elected transactivists take total control of all the Green Party instruments of governance: the Green Party Regional Council,  the Executive, the Standing Orders committee and the Disciplinary Committee.  

This is as the result of ( unconstitutional ) slates of candidates being orchestrated from the privacy of LGBTIQA+ Greens and Young Greens unofficial social media platforms with tacit endorsements from members of the leadership team.

Baroness Natalie Bennett confirms her support for the mantra ‘trans  women are women, trans men are men  …. ‘ in the House of Lords.

August

The 5 days Hearing of Dr Shahrar Ali versus The Green Party of England and Wales starts in the County Court at Mayor’s and City of London Court with Judge Hellman sitting with Ms Lucy Moreton as assessor.

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