Green Party Women need your help TODAY

[GreenChris]

Green Party Women has been doing a grand job championing women in the party, knowing that #sexmatters and providing great resources to support and encourage women to participate in politics.

Today the current committee is up for election and under threat of a take-over by a group that's single concern appears to be self-ID for transwomen - although trans folks have their own voice within the party in LGBTIQA+ Greens. They want the women's group too!

PLEASE REGISTER TO VOTE BY 13.30 TODAY. You need to be:

• A member of the Green Party
• And crucially, signed up to Green Party Women via this link: women.greenparty.org.uk/contact/

PLEASE SIGN UP TO VOTE NOW - list of good candidates standing will be posted this afternoon. Voting closes Sun eve.

Done. Thanks and goos luck @GreenChris

Done. Good luck, sisters.

Seen people supporting other candidates calling for a new direction for Green Party Women. Want to comment that the new direction poster is full of white people and a non woman. That doesn't seem like a new direction to me, more of the same old, same old.

Anyhow, all the best to the OPs group

Thanks for alerting us - signed up and now voted. I've been wavering for a couple of years on whether to stay a member; was involved with my local party but have taken a step back. To my shame, I have not felt confident to voice my views/concerns. (Another local member/councillor has been very vocal on their dislike of JKR on the local party group chat and nobody has challenged him.)

I'm left feeling disallousioned and that no party is for me. Sorry for the waffle - realise these are the thoughts many of us are having. Feel pessimistic about how these vote will go, but you never know?!

Thanks GreenChris, have now voted.

I've voted. Hope it makes a difference. If one party can start to make progress on this it may empower others. We need a green party that considers the needs of women in its climate policies!

I’ve voted, fingers crossed. If the ‘new direction’ win I doubt there’s much hope.

Thanks @GreenChris, I voted last night.

I've voted too.

I have no idea why the Leadership and so many of those in positions of power and influence are so determined to push on with the utter lunacy of trans-identity politics, when the grassroots membership are telling them that they are not interested, do not want this and would actually like to get on with the job of saving the planet.

As far as I understand, there is still time to join the Green Party and gain voting / proxy rights at conference although the cut-off to apply to vote for the committee for Green Party Women has passed. I believe the deadline for joining the GPEW is 8th Oct but by then of course, much of the conference will be over.

When will the results be known?

Sian Berry's been retweeting the "new, diverse" slate all over Twitter so it's obvious where her priorities lie. I don't think they realise the optics of what they're about to do: kick out a diverse group of women and replace them with a bunch of white women, most of which appear to be under 35.

I had given Green Party membership a go because I thought they were moving away from this nonsense but if this election goes the way I suspect it might, then it's not the party for me and l'll be ending my membership.

The deadline for voting has been extended to later in the week because so many didn't receive the voting email so I don't think we'll know the result until Friday.

It does call into question Sian Berry's "leadership" when she's promoting one group over another. Surely part of the leader's role is to encourage harmony in the party rather than stoking division.

I wonder if GP think that by going full on down this route, the will attract even more of the youth and perhaps pick up dissatisfied LP members. I don't know of any time politically when that strategy has actually worked.

The GP I think was one of those rare things, a new political party that had the potential to strengthen and influence over the long term and not a 'one off' like UKIP. The SD had to merge with the Liberals to survive.

The thread by which the GP hangs is Caroline Lucas and she has become more hardline. Parties who don't understand the centre ground of politics, don't understand politics, they are just factions (which frighteningly is what the LP might become if it doesn't get it's act together).

I don't think they realise the optics of what they're about to do: kick out a diverse group of women and replace them with a bunch of white women, most of which appear to be under 35.

Exactly this. And from the reading I've done around the issue, the diverse group are the ones that have reinvigorated the actual women's group. Really hope OP's group can hang onto their hard work and not get pushed out...awaiting the result with interest....

My highlighting game is not on point lol

kick out a diverse group of women and replace them with a bunch of white women

Yep.

Because the younger more middle class white lot must know better than their elders and less educated ones, don't they?

.. It doesn’t stand for envy...

😂

Deadline for voting has been extended to Thursday evening - due to technical problems. If you are a Green Party member, registered with Green Party Women and you haven't yet received a ballot email, please check your inbox today as there is an email from 'Green Party Women' explaining what to do.

kick out a diverse group of women and replace them with a bunch of white women

And a natal male.

I would like to ask any GPEW women and anyone who may know GC / neutral GPEW women, if they will share the information about voting preferences.

These are the suggestions circulated by Green FeministsUK

Co-Chair1. Dawn Furness 2. Emma Bateman 3. Re-open Noms
Secretary1. Chris Holt 2. Re-open Noms
Treasurer1. Nicola Watson 2. Re-open Noms
Membership Sec1. Claudine Letsae 2. Re-open Noms
Non-portfolio Officer1. Julia Lagoutte/Faty Kane jobshare 3. Rossi Addo-Kissi-Debah 3. Andrea Carey Fuller 4. Re-open Noms (or some version of this order)

I've just seen this - I'm not a GP member so can't take part, but am cheering you on. How is it looking?

Will women leave en masse if the vote is for 'diversity'?

A lot of women have already left, in despair - the GC slate is their only hope of hanging onto a lot of the ones that remain, I think.