Author: concernedgreens

According to the GPEW 2025 accounts submitted to the Electoral Commission, the party spent £1,030,118 on legal costs in 2025, which is almost four times as much as it spent in 2024. It is nearly one fifth of the party’s entire expenditure for 2025. Here is page 8 of the party’s Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 31 December 2025:The story was picked up in The Telegraph on 22 August 2026, which highlighted two of the current court cases that are contributing to the party’s legal bills.

• Firstly, Shahrar Ali, who previously won an unlawful discrimination case against GPEW, has been expelled and is suing again over this.
• Secondly, Emma Bateman is suing the party for discrimination after having been expelled from the Green Party three times for expressing gender-critical beliefs.

The Telegraph (Sabrina Miller on 11 July 2026) has reported that the Green Party will consider a motion to support “trans-centric and trans-inclusive sporting projects” and “work in government to undo the toxic environment around trans, intersex and gender-non-conforming people in sport”.

This contradicts the Supreme Court decision in April 2025, which defined sex under the Equality Act as biological sex only.

The Telegraph adds that Fiona McAnena, director of campaigns for Sex Matters, said: “The party says it will oppose ‘gender-based blanket bans’. In plain language, this means allowing men who claim to be women into the female category and denying fair sport to women and girls”.

All eyes on the Greater Manchester Mayoral By-Election on 30 July 2026, now that Andy Burnham has left the mayoralty after being elected MP for Makerfield.

Geraldine Coggins, the Green Party councillor for Altrincham, is the Green candidate for Mayor. She has been likened to Mrs Goggins in Postman Pat. Both of them seem quite sensible characters and it is probable that neither is a trans activist.

‘Welsh greens to go it alone as they ditch identity politics on their way to the Senedd’ reports The Green Light Blog (19 April 2026). If you don’t have a BBC TV licence to watch BBC Wales ‘Your Voice’ in Llandudno on 15 April 2026, you can watch here as Plaid Werdd Leader Anthony Slaughter answers a question about women’s rights to single-sex spaces.  

See also the long thread of comments on the post by Wales-Women’s Rights Network @WRNWales including criticism of Slaughter’s points about: women’s rights are a ‘culture war’, vulnerable groups, trans kids, all rights considered but men’s are more important, men with trans identities are less of a risk than other men, “research” supports his position, etc, etc.

Early on Friday, 10 October 2025, just hours before the start of the FiLiA women’s rights conference there that day, a group called Bash Back vandalised the Brighton Centre, as reported by the BBC.

Later that day, Sian Berry, Green MP for Brighton, posted on X that

The choice of Brighton was clearly provocative from organisers and the problems caused predictable.

The X thread is worth reading in full. Berry continued:

I raised this with the Council, including the leader, months ago and offered my help to prevent all this. Very disappointing not to have had this taken up.

Respondents naturally posed questions and comments about what Berry’s ‘help’ would have been:

And what exactly did ‘your help’ look like? Your help to ban the conference? Your advice to continue to look away as men terrorise women – no worse, you continuing to smear the women as the problem?

You can’t ban people from Brighton, Sian.

Rather than issue a statement in support of the conference, Berry chose to post a message that it was ‘provocative’. She made no criticism of Bash Back.

Bash Back describes itself as a ‘trans-led direct action group combatting the rising tide of bigotry in the UK’. Its attack on FiLiA follows the one during the summer, when the group vandalised Wes Streeting’s constituency office in Ilford, as reported by The Telegraph on 1 August 2025.

It has published an ‘action guide’ doc at www.transbashback.com/actionguide.pdf. For the record, here are some pages from the action guide. It’s nice that they ‘do not condone causing physical harm to any human being’.

Zack Polanski was elected Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) on 2 September, soundly beating joint-ticket rivals, Adrian Ramsay MP and Ellie Chowns MP. Mothin Ali and Rachel Millward were elected as joint deputy leaders.

A new  post at greensinexile.org.uk/ecology-of-polanski-green-party considers whether the party is straying from its traditional ecological foundation under its new leadership.