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I like Sharir, we talked a couple of times on GreenLeft after that election a few years back, when I said the party should make him deputy leader to heal this rift and bury the 'Identity politics' crap. He has the qualities a good leader needs.

This is exactly why I stopped participating in GP politics, and recently stopped my subs too - although for several years (Since chatting to Ali, funnily enough) I was apparently removed from mailing lists as to internal votes and discussions, so the only loss has been I haven't been losing monthly money to the party.

I am 100% certain that the "Identitarians" are a US/CIA backed group, probably run by USAID etc monies, and their strong pro-NATO elements - so much for the anti-war Greens... - emphasise that.

The GPEW are just becoming the 'German Greens'. I don't like the look of this Polanksi one little bit, either.

There's plenty of GP/former GP members available for a new, socially and environmentally conscious, left wing party.

Interestingly, according to a recent counterpunch article, the large majority of Reform voters REALLY want that Corbynite Manifesto policies - and not the... CIA/Empire policies of Reform's leadership.

Wonder if Mick Lynch would head up a new Party?

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Gnuneo: Here is a piece by Shahrar in The Telegraph over the weekend: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/09/green-party-sinister-mob-take-it-from-me-deputy-leader/

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Thanks, yeps. Funnily enough, I was pro-Trans - from my teenage years, where an ancient text from Bob Heinlein laid out a very liberal position on this. Having known a couple or so - and a M2F became a good friend - it seemed like a no-brainer.

Until I met the mob he talked about on GreenLeft. OMFG. The only thing close to that level of hysteria is the Hasbara fanatics. Absolute, total, rigid, privilege.

No deviation from their maximalist demands allowed. I suggested the rather vanilla idea that transpeople should get their own public toilets as a 3rd option - as a policy suggestion, to circumnavigate the 'public toilets debate', it doesn't seem extreme.

WELLL!!! Apparently I was "Denying their Humanity", and I probably murdered trans-people due to my extreme hatred of them, and and and.

I was immediately put on the "Trans-hater list", and anyone who didn't block me was also a witch who needed the same punishment.

I was a long-term, respected member of GreenLeft, who had worked strenuously with the mods and admin several times against troll invasions. Suddenly, I could only see ~10% of threads, and damned few replies in those.

Needless to say, that shifted my political perceptions somewhat.

The irony of those claiming to be 'full women' while behaving EXACTLY like extreme male-privilege was not lost on me.

Then I discovered the CIA/MI(x)/Mossad playbook was to break movements using this subject as leverage, and it clicked.

And then the GPEW stopped sending me the emails to vote for candidates, or to join in any discussions. And I read my disquieting stories regarding 'Stitch-ups' at conferences too.

I was a Green member from the 00s, applied to be a local constituency candidate, had chatted online to much of the leadership, and IRL to Caroline Lucas (She was my actual MP); and then suddenly politically homeless due to these extremists. (I was on the edge of cancelling GP membership for Corbyn's Labour when he quit, though like many Greens I'd supported his run from Day 1).

I don't think I'm alone in this kind of story.

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The Left Lane's avatar

Gnuneo: I don't think Mick Lynch would make a good leader. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae7ky9u3n6g&t=16s

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Unfortunately, I can't see that, as in a struggle with YT over ad-blockers. And Google/YT *NEEDS* those pennies from showing me ads, poor things. So I can't watch most YT vids, I migrated to Rumble for my politics vids fix.

I did google the link to see if it was elsewhere, but your FB links back to YT as well.

I saw one link that said Lynch was SocDem rather than socialist, which hardly seems to me to be a deal-breaker, and no doubt he has made compromises too during his career, who doesn't? (Apart from Hasbara Trans-fanatics, that is)

But I can't see your actual argument. :(

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