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

Well, I saw it here, Google says it was last year 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ah, February 1974 was the first general election the greens were involved in and they gained a few seats.

It's a mixed victory, though. Shahrar's speech is moving.

What anyone wants is for the party to come to its senses and act fairly. Lifelong members and activists are seeing it torn to shreds by these issues being so badly handled.

Yes.

My emoji is ironic but the damp squib weak sounding lone fading party blower in my head doesn't translate to mn.

I can hear it now, Warrior!

I'm hearing a sad trombone.

What an excellent birthday present, Green Party!

Ha ha happy birthday!

I'm also getting tumble weeds and blowing wind.

And the sound of thumbs tapping in many Gp tra WhatsApp groups....

There is a lot of quiet about.

Ah well. Perhaps none of the other political parties have noticed what happened.

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I expect it's one of those Things They Don:t Want To Talk About

And I''m still without a quote button.

Isn't it at bottom left of the post, I think it's moved.

So it has. Thank you.

(My fucked up eyesight is not helping here.)

I still can't edit

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Should encourage Emma Bateman, repeatedly expelling her must be unlawful discrimination. Green Party would be wise to settle that one promptly.

I cant offhand remember the other cases.

Dawn Furness

I'm not surprised the response is muted, unless you live in a Green political stronghold area lots of people will have no idea about internal GP politics.
I live in a Conservative heartland (our MP has a majority of about 20,000). In local elections quite a lot of people have been voting for the GP, thinking of it as a protest vote against their party of preference and to support environment issues. I don't think they would've voted for them if they'd looked a little closer and I'm not sure if the GP doesn't prefer it that way.

I think in Scotland a lot of people are aware of how batshit the Scottish greens are because their leaders like to go on television and talk about their lunacy

Our local GPEW candidate is all kinds of excellent. I'm making a solid guess she's TWAW Bekind, but I haven't specifically asked her nor researched in case someone else did. She's great on local matters and generally busting the chops of our 'looks busy, more interested in pockying in with the tory higher-ups and local rich lads than looking after his povvo constituents' Tory MP. Our constituency is being split in twain and I wouldn't mind her being one of the MPs (the local labour guy is also good, that's my dream team).

But I digress. The GPEW has really let themselves down here and they need to introspect.

Yes @Chrysanthemum5 I bet the situation in Scotland is very different!

Yes the Gp prefer that none of it is discussed publicly.

And in many ways I can see that it's ultimately damaging for the environmental votes. Which I'd rather it wasn't. At the same time a party that is supposedly based on science and social concerns should know what a woman is. And isn't.

Oddly the guardian don’t seem to have reported this anywhere 🤔

Appears that is the case

https://t.co/ZMJAnh3EGi

It took most of yesterday for me to notice it.

Ah ok thanks for sharing.
This is what I was concerned about.