tracking the ‘capture’ of the green party by critical theories activists

INTRODUCTION

The incursion of Identity Politics and the ‘Social Justice Movement‘ into our ecological and humanist Green Party can be traced back to the year 2010.

The notion whereby all knowledge – including scientific knowledge – is socially constructed and that group identities trump class and poverty was a straight import into the Green Party via the Young Greens from universities.

As new cohorts of graduates deeply influenced by post modernism and Critical Theories joined the Party circa 2010 and set about to move the Party away from its ecological roots towards more of a broadly ‘leftist’ Party.

Why the Green Party of England and Wales and the Scottish Greens have been so much more vulnerable to the impact of anti-science post modernism, critical theories and identity politics than any other political party in the UK will no doubt be the object of much soul searching over the next few years.

Some older members who joined before post modernism made its incursion within the Party have chosen to hold on. Sadly, too many have either been banned or just left.

If lessons are to be learnt, members should ask themselves when and how did the Green Party lost its way and how coud it have been ‘captured’ by an ideology so totally opposed to its science-based world view and green liberal values.

This time-line with the occasional foot note has been painstakingly put together by the Green Light team of researchers based on primary sources provided by long serving members.

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PART ONE : 2010 – 2014

2010

6th May – Caroline Lucas is elected as Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion.

The Equality Act defines “ Protected Characteristics “.

 “Bright Green” social media platform is launched by members of the Scottish Greens and  Open Democracy.

The platform soon becomes the voice of ‘identitarianism’ within the green movement in the UK

2011

A  one year free membership to join the Green Party leads to a sudden influx of students and graduates in the party. Fresh from social sciences and arts university departments almost exclusively, new recruits bring with them a post-modernist philosophy and Critical Social Justice “Theories” which defines sex, gender, race and other “ characteristics” as the basis of a hierarchy of competitive identities.

Mentored by a handful of postgraduates from Green Left and Open Democracy, the Young Greens is set up as an autonomous body with its own constitution and sets of rules, with automatic voting rights for two its officers on the Executive and the guarantee of a generous annual grant.

In 2019, the Young Greens handed back part of their £25000 grant to the Executive towards the Party’s General Election campaign.

2012

A strong suppporter of the transgender ideology and community, Natalie Bennett is elected leader of the Green Party.

2013

The Green Party Regional Council sets up a Governance Working Group which comprises of ‘Green Left’ Doug Rouxel as chair, Derek Wall, GPEX Chair Liz Reason, John Street from the Executive and representatives from the Green Party Regional Council (GPRC).

The concept of “Liberation Groups” emerges from this Working Group with a view to be inserted into the new constitution.

The Black Lives Matter movement builds up in the US.

Nottingham Conference. A revision of the Philosophical Basis of the party which prioritise social justice is adopted. Written by Young Green Josiah Mortimer, this ‘clause 4’ declares that  “The Green Party is a party of social and environmental justice which supports a radical transformation of society for the benefit of all, and for the planet as a whole. We understand that the threats to economic, social and environmental well being are part of the same problem, and recognise that solving one of these crises cannot be achieved without solving the others.”

Conference passes a vote of ‘No Confidence’ in the chair of the Governance Working Group for a lack of objectivity in pushing his own identity politics agenda.

Doug Rouxel has been a mentor to the Young Greens and played a key role as a member of the Standing Orders Committee for many years. He remained an active member of GPRC’s Party Structure Working group until 2024.

Brighton Council under a green administation adopts Stonewall’s Trans Inclusion School Tool kit for local schools.

2014

Green MP Caroline Lucas pushes for a Gender Identity clinic in Brighton

Bright Greens is launched UK wide.

Mermaid, a charity which supports trans, non binary and gender diverse children, young people and their families captures the Tavistock Gender Clinic

Aimee Challenor, a Trustee of Coventry Pride and trans equality campaigner comes out aged 16 as she left school. She spoke openly about her experiences as a young transgender woman.

Diagnosed as autistic, she is referred to the Gender Clinic at Tavistok by Mermaid. Her father is on the parents’ board.  Copy of the letter of referral.   

PART TWO 2014 – 2019

January

Ruper Read, philosopher and green activist is forced to apologise after posting that the use of the word “cisgender” as the opposite of “transgender” troubled him. Accused of transphobia, a concerted vendetta starts against him.  Part of this orchestrated campaign are some 10,000 accusatory tweets. He is forced to recant like some medieval heretic.

This incident can be considered as a milestone in the closing down inside the Green Party  of free speech and the abandoning of science and reason relating to biological sex and gender.

March  

The concept of Intersectionality makes its way into the party’s narrative

“We live in a racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, imperialist, classist, transphobic, disablist, xenophobic, ageist world. If we aren’t the person being oppressed by any one of those dynamics, then society is built in such a way as to encourage us, unthinkingly, to perpetuate them. Simply by standing still in our place in the pyramid, we squash those below us. Those injustices which stubbornly survive do so like genes or memes not so much because of those who mean to perpetuate them, but because of those who do it unthinkingly”.  Adam Ramsay, member Bright Green Editorial Board.

The idea of a hierarchhy of oppressions and “unconscious bias” concept thus make their incursion into the Party.

September

Trans gender extremist Natalie Bennett is elected Leader of the Party. Defender of sex based women’s rights, Shahrar Ali is elected Deputy Leader.

Conference approves a motion which rewrites the party’s Philosophical Basis to privilege social justice. 

The synopsis in the preamble  reads : “Our Philosophical Basis should reflect Green principles of social justice and put our struggle for equality and democratic control of resources at the centre”.

Transgender activist Matt Hawkins is elected External Communications Officer on the Executive.

December

Aimee Challenor joins the Green Party with an ambition to become Party Leader.

He/she is admitted as a patient at the Gender Clinic Tavistock’s on a pathway to gender transition as a transwoman . A pediatrric consultant report listed 3 mental health conditions: autism, ADHD, and ODD.

2015

Nick Martin recruited from Tavistock is appointed as Green Party’s CEO. New staff for HQ are selected on the basis of their support from Stonewall.

Aimee Challenor become the party’s equalities spokeswoman with a particular focus on LGBT issues.

Father of Aimee, David Challenor is arrested for kidnap, rape and the electrocution of a ten-year-old girl, while dressing up himself as a girl. The Challenor’s home was registered as Coventry Green Party’s address.

Conference: 4 options for a proposed new constitution are put for debate, One option favoured by the LGBTIQA + Greens would give identitity groups a greater role in any new instruments of governance.

May

Caroline Lucas is re-elected as Green MP for Brighton Pavillion  

October 

Green Party Sian Berry and Amelia Womack sign David and Aimee Challenor’s Open letter supporting Mermaids, a charity that facilitates sex change in children. The Open Letter is cited at a High Court Ruling.

Whilst a member of Stonewall Trans Advisory group and on her “pathway” to transition as a transwoman, Aimee Challenor is elected  chair of the national LGBTIQA+ Greens.

Conference agendas word searches reveals that there were more references to “LGBT” than there were to “climate change”

December

David Challenor joins the Green Party.

The Challenor’s father/child relationship sows the seeds of a major scandal that brought huge discredit upon the Green Party as Aimee had been interviewed by the police in 2015 and therefore knew about the case, but nevertheless, was allowed to appoint her father to be her election agent in Coventry in May 2016.

2016

January

Aimee Challenor stands as Green Party candidate for the Coventry council elections

Matt Browne leaves the Conservative Party. “Following a gradual process of intellectual conversion to the cause of progressive politics and environmental activism”, he joins the Green Party.

 Appointed by CEO Nick Martin as the Complaints Referral Officer, “skilful operator” Matt Browne will play a key role in 2022 in assisting the then co-leader Sian Berry preparing for the discriminatory demotion of spokesperson and defender of women’s rights Dr Shahrar Ali.

September

Natalie Bennett stands down as Party Leader. Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley are elected co-leaders, thus, arguably, depriving Deputy Leader Dr Shahrar Ali the opportunity to become Leader.

Birmingham Conference -“ Recognising Trans Rights” motion proposed by Aimee Challenor, with support from non-binary Carla Denyer, transgender woman Kathryn Driscoll and 29 proposers, is approved.

This anti-scientific mantra which declares that biological sex is the same as gender marks a sharp turn into the GPEW’s journey towards becoming the UK Transgender Party. As a reminder, it reads as follows:

Synoposis

This motion would affirm that the Green Party believes that the identities of Transgender People are Real and Valid, and that we shall respect them.

Motion

Insert into Rights and Responsibilities, under Trans Rights, RR520, keeping this policy at the top of the Trans Rights section and renumber accordingly:

RR520  The Green Party recognises that there are many Gender Identities, that are within, and outside of the traditional Gender Binaries of man and woman. The Green Party recognises that Trans Men are Men, Trans Women are Women, and that non-binary identities exist and are valid. We shall respect transgender and non-binary people’s identities as real. The Green Party shall include, and push for further acceptance of, transgender and non-binary people within all areas of society “.

October

Neurodiverse Clare Lorraine Phipps and partner to Matt Hawkins is elected chair of the Green Party Executive Committee.

According to our source, Matt Hawkins told Clare he had managed the communications issue regarding the David Challenor’s horrific crime with the press office. Clare Phipps response was to contact Aimee and focus on supporting her personally. She subsequently explained she did not speak to the the CEO, Nick Martin, whom she line managed, about the charges because she saw it as a communications issue. She believed that the communications team would have told him if they judged it necessary. Nick Martin told members of the Executive that if he had been informed the party would have taken action in accordance with its safeguarding policies.

Two years later, David Challenor was convicted and jailed for 22 years.

Wave of books aimed at promoting identitarianism amongst children eg ‘Who Are You ?” come in the market as is a Kid’s Guide to gender Identify aimed at three year olds

November

Matt Hawkins is re-elected as external communications co-ordinator. When he received the message from Aimee Challenor on 5 November that her father was charged for kidnap, rape and the torture of a ten year old child, he emailed three members of the communication team to tell them that “a very close relative of one of our spokespeople has been arrested. I can’t really share with you the full details… but in case anyone does get in touch about it we do know about it and just raise it with me”.

Matt Hawkins is on the record to have regretted not asking Aimee Challenor for more details of the charges against her father and not asking if he/she was a member of the party. His first instinct was to look after Aimee and to give her re-assurance that he would handle issues.

This was a clear breach of party rules as officers are required to inform the party of anything that may bring the party into disrepute. It also ignored the child safeguarding implications of the case.

Green Party member Andy Healey is dragged in the court by David Challenor ( on bail at the time ) and Aimee Challenor. He faces accusations of transphobic harrassment. The case was subsequenlty dismissed.

2017

April

Aimee Challenor is elected as a member of the Executive

May

Caroline Lucas is re-elected as Green MP for Brighton Pavillion

September

Conference . With strong support from Caroline Lucas, a Holistic Review Commission (HRC) is launched to look at new structures for the party, with a Transition Team to oversee the process.

The idea of Common Interest groups – or formerly named Liberation Groups – emerges.

Andy Healey is suspended for whistle-blowing about safeguarding and children transitioning.

Later suspended again for 2 years, Andy is eventually driven out of the party. There is a parallel campaign against whistleblower Dawn Furness, member of the Executive.

The international declaration the ‘Yogyakarta Principles + 10’ is published.

Those principles are influential in transgender circles, if not widely known. On closer examination they contain many contradictions.

Robert Wintemute Professor of Human Rights Law at King’s College, London, a key member of the panel has since aknowledged that the voice of women had not been listened to, thus causing much harm to women as a sex and women’s rights.

“Remarkably”, he later confessed, ”the co-chair of the YP10+ committee was a woman, a Brazilian sexual rights activist named Sonya Correa ” and added : ” She views the biological differences between men and women as “fundamentalist” and “a 19th century western construct,” and holds up the Yogyakarta Principles as a model for laws because they do not mention the word “woman.”

In 2019, Robert Wintemute lent his support to Maya Forstater wrongly accused of transphobia because of her belief that trans women are “not women” in her landmark case under the Equality Act of 2010.

Controversy over Black Lives Matters leader who appeared to have labelled white people as “defects”.

2018

Matt Browne is elected GPEX secretary.  

Formal complaint are submitted by trans activist Richard Firth against former Deputy Leader Shahrar Ali and feminist Beatrix Campbell with allegations of transphobia.

A year later, both were cleared of transphobia whilst urged to treat party members “ with more courtesy in the future”. Beatrix was prohibited from public office for a year.

June

Aimee Challenor stands as a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Green Party.

August

Aimee Challenor’s Father David Challenor is sentenced to 22 years in prison for raping and torturing a 10-year old girl.

Internal campaign against former Deputy Leader Shahrar Ali starts to build. Beatrix Campbell is also subject to parallel attacks.  

She will feel obliged to leave the party in 2020.

The Executive takes the decision to approach Verita for an independent inquiry into Safeguarding.

Julie Bindel declares that the Green Party has a “woman problem’.

September

Jonathan Bartley and Sian Berry are elected as co-leaders.

Olivia Palmer, twice a GPEW parliamentary candidate is suspended for alleged ‘transphobia’.

Conference : Theo Simon proposes a motion “for a renewal of GPEW`s democratic structure” to address concerns that ” an unhealthy culture had arisen within the party “.

The motion was prompted by the actions of extreme transgender activists, which it was felt, had caused many decent and tolerant members to leave the Green Party and had been a toxic distraction from more important matters. The motion stated that it was high time that the problem was addressed before even more harm was done.

The proposer was able to rally co-proposers from every side of the opinion spectrum in the Green Party including Dr Rupert Read, Shahrar Ali, Beatrix Campbell, Judy Maciejowski, long time GP executive member Dee Searle, veteran anti-nuke campaigners Linda & Brig Oubridge, Land magazine editor Dr Mike Hannis and over 60 others.

The motion falls off the agenda. This marked the beginning of a pattern whereby motions deemed to be on the ‘wrong side’ of identity politics and gender ideology end up being systematically pushed out of the Conference Plenary sessions and allowed by identinarian chairs to simply “fall off the agenda”.

December

Scottish Green trans extremist Magie Chapman joins Bright Green editorial team

2019

January

The Verita report is published which points to serious flaws in the party’s safeguarding policy and its implementation.

Green Party Women adopt a new constitution which gives ‘gender variants’ the right to vote. Transwomen and non-binary members who are also active members of the LGBTIQA+ Greens and Young Greens take control of the committee and proceed to disband it.

This marks the end of biological women’s right and freedom to organise as a sex within the Green Party. Refusing to accept that sex and gender cannot be conflated is now deemed to be transphobic and therefore in breach of the code of conduct. The purge of heretics will commence.

December

All members but one member from the Holistic Review Commission Task Team resign due to “the unfettered control of SOC has over so many different aspects of our decision making it impossible to bring about any meaningful change “.

Quote from Martina Weitch’s report : “the Holistic Review: What went wrong? “

PART THREE 2022-2023

January

Members of the 4000 strong Green Party Women Special Interest Group elect their committee with a minority of transgender ideology 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 with the ambition to become the official voice of all green party women gained recognition from the Equality and Diversity committee in 2024.

February

A majority of members of the Executive vote 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 had been procedural unfair”  and 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. The exact figures has never been revealed to the membership.

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 the then Bristol Councillor Ani Townsend Stafford to rapidly ascent into the party’s governance as national Election Returning Officer.

The ‘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”.

We understand from the trusted source that Trans activists on the Executive insisted that the report be redacted so as to delete all references associated with biological sex before publication. A search word undertaken by The Green Light applied to the 69 pages long EDI Audit report shows “no result” for ‘sex discrimination’, ‘sexism’ or ‘misogyny’.

Such 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 to address sex discriminatory pratices bar the appointment of an EDI officer.

July

LGBTIQA+ Greens Zack Polanski is elected Deputy Leader.

At the hustings, Polanski 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” on this issue.

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. He declares that his favourite politician/mentor is Black Liberation revolutionary Malcolm X.

Quizzed on transphobia by Bright Green editor Chris Jarvis, Dennis 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.

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. She subsequently joined the Greens in Exile campaign.

November

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

December

Scottish Greens sponsor the Gender Recognition Reform Bill which is debated and approved by Holyrood MSPs.

Self-identification gains legal status in Scotland. 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 ?” contributes to her demise in March 2023.

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

2023

February

Publication of Dr Hilary Cass’s Interim report

This report challenges Tavistock’s ‘affirmative approach’ as practiced by Gender Clinics for a decade, dealing 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’ social media platforms with tacit endorsements from members of the Leadership team.

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle confirms her support for party policy ‘trans  women are women, trans men are men ‘ in the House of Lords.

Launch of the Green Light blog.

TO BE CONTINUED.…

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