SHahrar Ali is taking the Green party to court

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Over "fanatical clampdown on legitimate debate"
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1cd0a19a-3e7b-11ee-87d9-ff29f95b54f7?shareToken=743d9060f8ee7dda519c50fb93882b73

Thank you for the update, I am in meetings most of the morning, I will read properly later.

Great news

That's great! Looking forward to reading the full judgment when published.

This will have resonance for ALL politicial parties

I am especially appreciating the declaration the judge has granted.

Well done, Shahrar and all who have supported him and held the line in the GPEW. Thank you.

Dr Ali also seeks a declaration that he has been subjected to unlawful discrimination. I grant the declaration sought

Thank you, Judge Hellman

👏👏👏👏

a relief. Now for the gP reaction. And the other cases… I wonder if they will settle now.

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I don't know if they'll be able to, Helle?

I think that ideologically they won't feel able to negotiate a settlement. They're too captured.

That would be the sensible thing but as it’s the Gp I expect a full toddler tantrum & an insistence they actually won

Excellent news.. rock on the other cases...

Great news!

Well that's made my day!

The latest Triggernomatry episode is interesting in relation to this. Peter Boghossian talks about groups whose viewpoints are based on ideas about what is morally right being unresponsive to changing their minds based on evidence. The ideas are evidence free in the first place, so they see no reason to engage in evidence at all.

copied from the Green Party webpage - their response

The Chair of the Green Party executive, Jon Nott, said:
“We are pleased that the court has recognised that a democratic political party has the right to select those who speak for it on the basis that they can and will communicate and support party policy publicly.
“We welcome the findings in the judgment that members of political parties have ‘fundamental party rights’ which include the right to disagree, to advocate for and against policies and positions adopted or proposed in the party, and to organise for those who agree with them and against those who do not, and that the Equality Act is not intended to interfere with those rights.
"The party acknowledges that there were procedural shortfalls in how we deselected one of our spokespeople. We apologise for failing in this instance to live up to the standards that both we and the court expect.”

interesting to see what happens next!

I'm looking forward to the legal analysis.

Has the determination been published yet does anyone know?

I'd love to be able to vote for the Greens again.

Off to the shops, will put some celebratory mint Magnums in my basket.

I am concerned that if this is a procedural win it means that the GP can discriminate so long as they discriminate in the procedurally correct way.

Lovely stuff,have one for me.

He's saying he's won on Twitter

Sorry missed this!

There's some confusion over the dismissed claims