by Ian Paul, Psephizo
The Green Party has become one of the most extreme in the UK following its annual conference. If the Church of England bans clergy from being members of other extreme parties, why not this one?
At their annual conference, the Green Party passed a number of measures, most of which went unreported. They included:
- Inclusive Terminology: Enforcing rigid linguistic rules that ban everyday words like “mother,” “father,” “homosexual,” and “female politician” under threat of internal party discipline and expulsion.
- Abortion: Total decriminalisation, allowing a woman to end a pregnancy at any stage for any reason with zero criminal prosecution or consequences.
- Euthanasia: Legalisation of assisted dying for terminally ill adults via independent medical sign-off.
- Trans Rights: Absolute gender self-identification granting biological males claiming a female identity full access to all biological women’s spaces, refuges, and sports categories.
- Defence: Complete unilateral nuclear disarmament by scrapping Trident, undermining traditional military alliances like NATO, and slashing military budgets.
- Net Zero: Forcing net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 through an immediate fossil fuel ban, a trillion-pound Green New Deal, and heavy consumption taxes on meat and dairy.
- Reparations: Enacting state-backed financial compensation and structural reparations for the British Empire and the transatlantic slave trade. (Thanks to Jason Swan Clark for this summary.)
But the one that, perhaps rightly, attracted most headlines was that they voted for and adopted a policy which explicitly calls for the establishment of a “single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine”, which means the dissolution, complete dismantling and eradication of Israel as a sovereign Jewish nation-state, replacing it entirely with a single Palestinian state spanning all of historic Palestine. (That last claim is actually false, since the original mandate for British Palestine included what is now Jordan, and the term coined by the Romans also covered a larger area. This illustrates the problem with calls for a ‘free Palestine’ since the boundaries of such a theoretical state have never been defined because no such state has ever existed. We also need to remember that there are no functioning democracies in the region other than Israel.)