(a) Green Diplomat?

I have resigned as the Electoral Returning Officer of the Green Party of England and Wales. I am willing to talk relatively freely to individuals, but am still of the mindset that discretion, particularly on things like blogs goes an awful long way.

I will remain the National Returning Officer of the Scottish Green Party, which like any group of politics geeks activists and representatives can have its tensions, but has been a generally more relaxing and more rewarding time. I hope I can continue to offer assistance in the future to the GPEW, perhaps as Deputy ERO in at least a year’s time, and I hope that the circumstances of this year’s elections, and my resignation, will give pause for thought, and motivation to debate and ultimately implement the most positive and enabling changes to our internal structure and culture.

I love internal politics, and I’m aware that all the stresses that people in internal politics suffer mean precisely naff all to the general voting public, but it can drain activists, turn people cynical and cause factionalism that has knock-on effects to our external operations.

Our most important targets for activist-energy must remain the Climate Crisis (and the need for speedy implementation of Carbon-Economics/Contraction and Convergence) and attacking the Social Inequity that harms people on the lowest incomes leading to an increasing poverty gap and creating perfect conditions for the far-right to gain supporters.

I will come back… don’t worry.

Regards,
Gordon

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