A Fractured Movement: When Core Values Collide in the Green Party
In the not-so-distant past, certain behaviours were met with near-universal condemnation. Deliberate distortions of gender that risked the safety of women and children, acts of predatory deception, and the use of cross-dressing as a cloak for criminality were concepts society roundly rejected. There was a clear, understood line. Recently, however, a disquieting shift has occurred. Much of this very behaviour has not only emerged from the shadows but has, in some circles, found a bizarre level of tolerance, playing out rife in our communities and across the chaotic landscape of social media. This new cultural frontier has created unlikely and deeply damaging battlegrounds, perhaps nowhere more surprisingly than within the Green Party of England and Wales. A party built on the foundational, urgent principles of environmentalism and ecological justice now finds itself haemorrhaging members and key figures. Why? Because a significant faction within the party has chosen to provide unwav...
