Sexism/other issues in the Green party England & Wales - Discussion Thread 3

Garynomics

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Hasn't he been moaning on Piers Morgan's show that he hates all the attention of being hyper visible, and just wants to work in a library on research.
So, what's stopping him?

Polanski rates Gary Stevenson as having taught him about the wealth tax he advocates.

This must be his first non YouTube appearance actually fronting a documentary

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/08/how-to-get-filthy-rich-with-gary-stevenson-review-channel-4

I know the inside story of a prominent Green who was treated as if she was a criminal, or more accurately, a traitor to the cause.
Silence, innuendo, cold shouldering, group shaming.
This is no group of people you want anywhere near running this country.
And this is before Polanski's caste took over, it must be 10x worse now.
If you heard her story as relayed to me, you'd see everything they say about weaponised cancel culture is accurate.

“As far as I know, people haven’t been expelled simply for being gender-critical and, if they have, that should never happen,” she says. Suspension as a result of someone being accused of transphobic language or actions is one thing, Lucas says, whereas those who are gender-critical but “perfectly respectful – I don’t think we should be hounding those people out of the party”.

'As far as I know', is a pretty paltry fig leaf. Wasn't she in charge when exactly this was happening.

Precisely how can members be GC but still be considered 'perfectly respectful'. We've seen time and time again; Upton, the Darlington nurses, the current tribunal, there's no acceptable way to be openly GC. I wish she'd have given an acceptable example. The GI brigade get away with calling for murder.

There's a series on R4/ BBC sounds called 10 fights that shaped the green movement. I've not listened to all of them but heard the one yesterday about the People Party, which later became the greens.

I had no idea it was founded by Teddy Goldsmith or that his nephew Zack (now Tory peer. Ex London Mayoral candidate) succeeded him as editor of the Ecologist magazine he founded. It was about the blue- red axis and the fight for trying to overcome that, which with ZP seems to have gone full left populist.

Sorry Caroline Lucas, but get lost. I know someone who was very prominent in the party (would have been a cabinet minister had they won power), and was treated like shit for over a year for calmly and reasonably expressed GC opinions, zero hate speech, forcing her out of the party.
How would Lucas like it if her and other members who aren't rabid anti Zionists are similarly treated?

case management hearing on 10 September, Eresh, so hopefully sometime soon after that?

I planted seeds in this case at the beginning, it’s dragged on for years! Hope she gets a date for the hearing soon.

Video from Emma Bateman.

'I have with contributions from Baroness Claire Fox, who explains why my case is important politically, and my solicitor Elizabeth McGlone, who sets out my legal case against the Green Party.
I hope that the film will help to raise awareness of my case and raise funds for my next court date, which is a case management hearing on 10 September. Following that hearing, I hope to finally have the timetable for the hearing of the actual case laid out - it has been a long time coming!'

Although in Farage's case Coutts closed his account in part because he was no longer a high net worth individual. This was before he received the £5 million bung from the crypto billionaire of course

Although in Farage's case Coutts closed his account in part due to his views being considered incompatible with the bank's "values or purpose".

The bank's own documents, released when Farage made a subject access request, said as much.

Banks typically freeze accounts when there is suspected fraud or other criminal activity e.g. sanctions busting. The bank cannot tell the individual the details of why the account is frozen because that would tip off the criminals that the authorities are on to them.

I had a quick look to see what they'd said about Farage getting debunked, but htey have published so fuckin many pieces on him that I gave up equally quickly.

The first person I heard about being debunked was through a thread on MN, she was a National Front type and, iirc, wasn't getting much sympathy. I mentioned her in one of the threads about Farage getting debunked. Now this.

However unsympathetic these people and organisations are it wasn't right then, it isn't right now. Although I'm allowing myself a smirk because the Canary published an article claiming 'cancelling' wasn't a thing.

I agree. I bet they made fun of Farage and others complaining about though.

Oh, dear.

The Canary may be a bunch of pricks, but debanking media is potentially worrying.

Probably of more interest to the Your Party thread, but ex Corbyn supporting news site Canary (rivals of hated Skwawkbox against the Tory mainstream corporate media that IS Novara 😂) have been "debanked"

https://nitter.net/TheCanaryUK/status/2071930062715195608#m

I do recommend the Garbett interview in audio.

The pauses and hesitation are very interesting and don't translate in type.

Starts at 5.13, if the timestamp doesn't work.

I struggle to imagine the chaos tbh. Almost worth rejoining just to watch it play out.