Green Party Women EGM on discrimination against gender-critical Greens

The Green Party suspended my membership for two years, 2021 to 2023, for alleged transphobia and anti-semitism. All the charges were dismissed in April 2023. (For more see flimsy-evidence and vindicated-at-last and Cancel-culture-Green-Party.)

Green Party Women convened an EGM on 1 August 2023, part of which was to hear stories from members about discrimination for having gender-critical views. Here is what I said to the EGM.

the flimsy evidence in my Green Party case

The Green Party suspended my membership for two years, 2021 to 2023, for alleged transphobia and anti-semitism. All the charges were dismissed in April 2023. I have blogged about this already: about the result at vindicated-at-last-green-party and about the process up to the hearing of the complaint at Cancel-culture-Green-Party.

Why did the Green Party do so badly in the May council elections in Brighton & Hove?

In the elections to Brighton & Hove City Council on 4 May 2023, Labour won 38 seats, the Green Party won 7 and the Conservatives won 6, with various independents winning the remaining 3 seats. For the Green Party that was a loss of 12 seats compared to 2019.

Why did the Green Party do so badly?

Vindicated at last: Green Party dismisses complaint against me

Last week the Green Party Disciplinary Committee (DC) dismissed a complaint made by a party member against me over two years ago, which had put me on a ‘no-fault suspension’ (NFS), as described in my earlier blog: roadlesstraveller.blogspot.com/2023/01/Cancel-culture-Green-Party.html

Cancel culture and gender ideology in the Green Party

This is an extraordinary story of how an ordinary Green Party member was cancelled and suspended over alleged transphobia and anti-semitism in 2021 - for trying to assert women’s and children’s rights in a party that has been captured by gender identity ideologues.

My story is not unprecedented. The trouble has been brewing since at least 2016 (as I outline in Gender identity politics in the Green Party below).

My cancellation started in January 2021 when my 'gender critical' Green Space discussion page was abruptly deleted by the party’s chief exec. This was followed in February by complaints against me that led to a ‘no-fault suspension’ (NFS) for 'transphobia' and 'anti-semitism'.

That, gentle readers, is the short read. Please allow me to introduce myself and recount this sorry tale.

Bernard Jenkin and climate change

Bernard Jenkin, MP for Harwich and North Essex, has generally voted against measures to prevent climate change according to theyworkforyou.com and source data on PublicWhip.org.uk.

Committee on Climate Change

The UK Gov Committee on Climate Change (CCC) July 2019 report states

Eleven years to limit climate change catastrophe

As reported in the guardian one year ago, the October 2018 report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that we had 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, that is, to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5C.

Next Book Group on universal basic income

​At last, about 9 years after its inception, this blog may have found its raison d'etre as a record of the Gentle Readers Book Group, established 2014.

world population peak about ten billion

In this brilliantly clear video Swedish statistician Hans Rosling uses boxes to explain why the world total human population will never reach 11 billion.

Stop 350 Mersea

Stop 350 is a campaign group founded in November 2016 to campaign against Colchester Borough Council plans to build 350 new homes on Mersea Island, which equates to an 11% increase in the island's population.

Only Connect

“Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.” E.M. Forster

my Essex County Council election result

I came 4th out of 5 with 303 votes and beat Ukip into last place. 

COP21 climate change agreement

Was any binding legal agreement reached at the COP21 climate change summit in Paris?  

Green Party peace policy

Strangely, there is no mention of peace, war or Trident in the Green Party MiniManifesto of 2015. 

Quaker Testimonies

My take on the Quaker Testimonies (or Quaker Values)

​Colchester Orbital Route Project

​The route is around 13 miles. View it at www.walkcolchester.org.uk. 

Electric Vehicles 18/9/2016 Firstsite

Electric Vehicle (EV) workshop with presentation from Nissan and opportunity to drive an EV: Sunday 18 September at 3pm at Firstsite, meeting hosted by Colchester Green Party. My friend WB writes:

Lexden Road Bus Stop

Following my blog on 24 June, here are various objections to the proposed scheme for a bus lane along Lexden Road, edited from various sources.

No to Lexden Road Bus Lane

I'm not opposed to bus lanes in principle, far from it, but this plan to remove the two cycle lanes on Lexden Road to make way for an unnecessary bus lane is driving me round the bend.