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Mission Statement 2025

The Green Party is in a deep crisis. Its core values, policies and campaigning priorities are being grossly distorted by a faction which reject scientifically established evidence, reason and truth itself. Instead, they are trying to turn the party into a vehicle for post modern ‘identity politics’ whilst driven by opportunism and emotion-based subjectivism.

These changes are undermining the party’s very raison d’être. Externally members of this faction are handicapping the task of winning over the public to the ideas of sustainability, while the party’s internal democracy, from conference to disciplinary procedures, is being grossly warped. One result is a haemorrhage of good and often long-serving members. At the same time, those behind the turn are pushing through a wave of suspensions and expulsions. They have been shutting down legitimate debate and silence critics of their non-green, alien politics.

We must reclaim the ecological essence of Green politics if the party is to be relevant to the real challenges of the 21^st century. That means going back to the ideas that led to the founding of the Green Party in the first place. It means foregrounding the big issues of our times: climate breakdown, the destruction of biodiversity and the grotesque growing inequalities which threaten the very fabric of society and democracy.

We must promote inside the Green Party what unites people, not divides them. The really Green credo is one of sharing the Earth’s limited bounty and caring for all its dependents. The Green Party must foreground policies and campaigns that embody these concerns.  We also must strive to achieve internal transparency and fully democratic decision making whilst ensuring that our elected members are duly accountable to the whole of the membership.

We invite Green Party members who share our concerns for the future of our party and the above approach to get in touch: TheGreenLightBlog@protonmail.com. Our interest is to save our party from the real threat of bankruptcy and potential self-destruction. We want to re-build it into a political force that can play a leading role in addressing the climate and ecological crisis and face up to the challenge of the rise of populism.