{"id":663733,"date":"2026-11-01T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T15:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663733\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T15:26:08","slug":"green-party-at-a-crossroads-says-former-co-leader-adrian-ramsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663733\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Party at a &#8220;crossroads&#8221;, says former co-leader Adrian Ramsay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ramsay also said he has made it clear he is &#8220;deeply uncomfortable&#8221; with the motion adopted and suggested there is an &#8220;opportunity to take some action in relation to the motion in the run-up&#8221; to the party&#8217;s spring conference next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the question now is how Polanski and the party as a whole responds to the motion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ramsay said: &#8220;I think there&#8217;s a real crossroads point for the party at the moment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One option is to sort of dig in more down this approach, not only in relation to this motion, but I think that there&#8217;s a risk it brings with it &#8211; a quite divisive, a quite internally focused approach to politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ramsay said this is &#8220;perhaps seen from small groups of people on the hard left of politics who go around different parties try to influence how those parties are run&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;What I want to see is the party really focus back in on our core aims as a party and our core values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ramsay said this includes ensuring the party is &#8220;consensus-building in how we approach our politics&#8221; and that &#8220;we engage the grassroots of our membership&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added the party needs to be &#8220;very externally focused, because we&#8217;re only going to be able to bring the environmental changes that we need to have to safeguard our society for now and for the future if the majority of the British public come behind that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ramsay served as co-leader of the Greens from 2021 to 2025 alongside Carla Denyer, who is also now an MP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He unsuccessfully stood on a joint ticket with fellow MP Ellie Chowns in 2025, with the pair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd0d0d08jnjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">losing to Polanski in the leadership contest<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Polanski, who missed the conference vote to unsuccessfully campaign for election in a Westminster by-election, previously said he wants to see the &#8220;imperfect&#8221; motion amended in future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he said the &#8220;substantial part of the motion&#8221;, that &#8220;the displacement and genocide of the Palestinian people is clearly underpinned by a racist ideology&#8221; was &#8220;obvious&#8221;. Israel has repeatedly denied its actions in Gaza amount to genocide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under Green Party rules, motions supported by members become official party policy, but will not necessarily be included in the party&#8217;s manifesto at the next general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ramsay also said he has made it clear he is &#8220;deeply uncomfortable&#8221; with the motion adopted and suggested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-663733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}