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

Oh dear. This is not going to end well Times Article. Don;t have a share token. I wonder if the article mentions the Greens have already kicked out Green Women's Declaration (GWD) from having a stall at conference for believing women are a thing last year.

Greens accused of ‘banning’ antisemitism charity from conference
Zack Polanski's party will not host an event by the Antisemitism Policy Trust and More in Common as part of its conference fringe programme.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/green-party-antisemitism-conference-ban-zack-polanski-mbjkdpts7

Important article on legal fights in Greens wait till the costs from this year come in. How many Green councils are committed to banning women from having toliets or saying anything?

Hatip @IwantToRetire

Green Party spends over £1m on legal costs in a year
Party accused of using member’s money to fight ‘unwinnable’ battles against people with gender-critical views
In 2024, the Greens spent £270,227 on legal and professional fees, which rose to £1,030,118 in 2025, according to accounts submitted to the Electoral Commission.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/08/22/green-party-spends-over-1m-on-legal-costs-in-a-year/

Also at https://archive.is/6G3ek

Huge reverse ferret from Greens.

Green Party ditches 'mad' call to ban police Tasers and pepper spray
The Green Party has sparked controversy over a draft conference motion to ban Tasers - but party officials say the wording has now been dropped

Zack Polanski's Green Party has dropped a request to adopt a policy to strip police of Tasers and pepper spray. Documents seen by The Times reportedly showed party activists were also keen to scrap the government's Prevent counter-terror scheme, pull cops out of schools and even close down prisons in a draft motion put forward earlier this year.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/green-party-sparks-fury-over-37587318

Sexist Greens in Bristol
Green politician quits party to 'protect free speech'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2025v7qleo

Shahrar Ali on the fallout over the Greens policy proposal to remove Tasers where ZP and others attempt to justify the discussion as showing Green democracy at work.

Shahrar Ali

Whilst the concept of member-driven policy is a good one, what Polanski fails to mention is the full-on manipulation exerted by the dominant internal clique of the day, often aided by the leadership, to get their way at all costs. Anything but one-member one-vote, but extreme factional authoritarianism has been the order of the day in recent years.

In 2018, in Bristol, a grassroots campaign of sensible members who wanted to debate sex-based rights were subjected to all sorts of sabotage tactics, ultimately successful, to stop their motion being debated. This was the conference ThePosieParker
was seen distributing literature at the entrance to venue and had police called on her by Sian Berry and other ideologues.

In 2021, my own motion on banning GenderGP from prescribing puberty blockers to kids in UK was subjected to an extraordinary negative campaign to prevent it from being heard, despite widespread internal support. Weaponised use of disciplinary processes followed, which were resuscitated following my first unlawful discrimination win against the party.

In 2022, in an audacious affront to our rules, a dominant clique manipulated conference process to leapfrog a motion expressing "Solidarity with Drag Queen Story Hour/Time". This was despite a clear prioritisation ballot to the contrary, which had put an environmental motion ahead on the time-starved agenda.

In 2024, again, I had a well-founded motion coming to conference, post-Cass, to help put the party on a sensible policy footing with respect to the medical malpractice scandal of the century. Just days ahead of that conference I was subjected to an emergency suspension.

So don't believe Polanski when he claims you can't read a lot into the direction and culture of the party from what gets through to the conference agenda and what eventually gets heard, overcoming obstacles along the way, or getting a manipulative helping hand.

October 2026 Brighton will see another showdown on "Zionism is Racism" motion. The party has an explosive internal fight on its hands because of the fanatical beast they have enabled and unleashed not now doing as they are told, with those genuinely concerned about the antisemitic direction of the party forming alliance with hypocritical leaders who themselves realise the politically suicidal optics of passing such a motion. They're hypocrites because it's simply the natural extension of their chants of "from the river to the sea".

Some of this abuse of internal democratic process coming to an unlawful gender critical protected belief discrimination case near you. Women, in particular, have been silenced and persecuted in the party for too long. It's antidemocratic and unlawful. Political parties and their representatives aspire to make law but they are not above the law.