The Greens: torn apart by trans mania

Even when caught with their pants down, the sleazy, duplicitous Tories still manage to look competent and dignified when compared with the squabbling, identity-obsessed left. In May’s local elections, the impressive failure of charisma-vacuum Keir Starmer led to many left-leaning voters switching allegiance. The Green Party enjoyed a net gain of 91 council seats, taking its national total to a record 444. But just a few months after this success, even the greenies are now breaking their vegan diet in order to gorge on each other’s bloodied flesh. Last week, Sian Berry, Green Party co-leader for England and Wales, announced her intention to flounce.

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Somewhat awkwardly for Berry, one of the first to welcome her ‘principled stance’ was Aimee Challenor. Challenor identifies as a woman and was a rising star in the Green Party when, in 2017, he appointed his father, David Challenor, as an election agent. At the time of the appointment, David was on bail, charged with 22 offences – including the rape and torture of a 10-year-old girl, in the attic of his family home in Coventry. It seems the Greens were so excited by the prospect of having a trans candidate that they failed to do their due diligence.

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Ali was not the only wrong-thinker to come under the watch of the Green Party’s Big Sister. Emma Bateman was delighted when she was re-elected as co-chair of Green Party Women (GPW) late last year. As a feminist, she is unequivocal in her view that the sex you are born into determines your life chances – meaning, for instance, that females are more likely to be raped than to be rapists, and more likely to be victims of domestic abuse than to be perpetrators. She also believes that women-only experiences like pregnancy matter.

Bateman shared the role of chairing GPW with Kathryn Bristow, who is male. Bristow describes himself as ‘solo-polyamorous’, ‘pansexual’ and uses the pronouns ‘fae/faer’. Bristow also claims to be a ‘genderfae female person’. Bateman tells me that when she asked if Bristow was female, she was suspended from the party. ‘The complaints system has been used to muzzle insubordinates so the leaders can claim there’s a unified voice’, she says. Bateman thinks that a gulf between the grassroots Greens and the party leaders is becoming obvious:

‘I think most members focus on their local communities and the environment, and are unaware that gender ideology has been nurtured at the party core, while those at the centre saw the “trans women are women” policy waved through and took the lack of opposition for assent and support… Whoever is elected [as Green co-leader], I hope it is someone for whom climate change, not pronouns, will be a priority.’