Volunteer member of Green Party Council (GPC) for the East of England. Communist. Used to run Stats for Lefties. Doing my best to survive while having ME/CFS
What this article shows is that the Optics Left openly seek to deprive Green conference of its policy-making powers. They know a haphazard collection of vaguely-defined "groups" and thinktanks (assembled by party officials, not members) will be far easier to control.
Joe Todd argues the Greens need βa credible programme to transition away from capitalism β not only imagining the end of capitalism and what might come next, but planning in painstaking detail just how we are going to get there.β
@AnsellEade We should not be seeking "unity", nor should we be seeking to dilute our radical edge to appeal to white farmers in their 70s in Dorset. We must take sides, set out what we do and do not believe in, and make it clear what we will do. Forget this "unity" crap. Embrace division.
@AnsellEade Handing thinktank hacks, rural conservative farmers and busybody "community groups" total control over our party's program is a blatant attempt to disempower members and put MPs + leader in full control of policy. All very clearly a response to members voting the "wrong" way.
@chorowitzxxx yeah it's a party of the reformist liberal-left with pockets of organised radicals. "Socialism" has an actual meaning, and despite what these people claim it does not mean "government do thing"
@OfSymbols "We just need to be strategic"
ok but why? in service of what goal? Bastani's goal is to create a borderline fascist state where anyone who deviates from the "norm" is punished with extreme prejudice and obliterated
@OfSymbols Also, "strategy" is in service to an ideal. Bastani's ideal society is one where like 3 million people are in prison, with jaywalking or speaking loudly on the bus being punished with a 5 year stretch. He doesn't want the same world as me, why would I listen to his strategy
@WordMercenary The two ideologies overlap as a perfect circle because their adherents have convinced themselves that their perceived "enemies" are monstrous abominations, and they utilise all means at their disposal to wipe their "enemies" from the face of the planet. Zionists = Terfs
@WordMercenary Both ideologies are genocidal and conspiratorial. Terfs and Zionists both believe that particular social groups (trans people / Palestinians) should not exist, and both believe there is a conspiracy by all institutions to suppress them when in reality everyone in power backs them
@CharB666 If instead you favour a new kind of multicultural state in the region - democratic, with and human rights for all - then you are not a Zionist, because 'Israel' is inherently a supremacist ethno-state
π¨Shocking stuff. The Zionist faction within Greens have immediately embraced a dictator mindset, and are seeking to rig party rules in their favour BEFORE spring conference, without seeking consent of members.
This is, of course, unconstitutional.
These people have no shame.
Senior Green Party figures are looking into ways of clarifying or revising the controversial 'Zionism is racism' motion in the next few months, PolHome understands
Green MP Sian Berry said she wanted the party to have a "package" ready for its spring conference
@zoenora6 & @matilda__martin report https://t.co/jj5r9Ki7vE
@CharB666 If you believe that the Zionist entity known as 'Israel' should continue to exist as it is now - a racist apartheid ethnostate - then yes you are a Zionist.
@mikeyjcs@patpryce@RachelCDailey_ I ran as a Green candidate in **May 2024**, when I had a full-time job. I was diagnosed with multiple chronic illnesses in 2025 and was made medically redundant in 2026. You do realise that a lot can happen in 2.5 years, yes?