I’ll see everyone there at the weekend – exciting times for Greens and friends.

‘Co-operatives and the Green Party’

Seems everyone wants to be in with the co-ops these days…

And why are people being nasty to Adam. I may not politically agree with him, but it probably is quite exciting being a Green party member at the moment.

Knit yer own yoghurt.

The Green PPC for Hampstead & Highgate is Beatrix Campbell, the former Communist, lesbian marxist feminist who accepted an OBE last year, after writing:

‘The survival of an honours system clothed in royalism and imperialism is a reproach to New Labour’s craven sentiment about pomp and power. It’s timidity about reforming the constitution and its indulgent accommodation of the monarchy encourages the belief that these institutions are somehow natural, that radical renewal is too painful – that powerful people’s feelings would be hurt.

By clinging to symbols and rituals that belong to a cruel imperial order the government compromises the gonged’

She’s nuttier than squirrel shit. (& has had her comments on 9/11 conviently deleted)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Campbell

Interesting to see whether they win in Brighton.

But they are nutcases – with quite a few 9/11 troofers as you say – and will only ever make the most limited progress.

“ill only ever make the most limited progress.”

Well they’ve succesfully conspired to take over the worlds universities, the UN, the EU ,and every major government, purely so they can impose pigou taxes on us via the global warming scam. Rather more than limited progress I’d say.

Nice to know where the nutters are – somewhere between comment 2 to comment 5.

I’m venturing off to Finchley for the weekend, safe in the knowledge that the nutters are trolling Liberal Conspiracy.

Hey! Deleted my comment about a certain purple-clad lizard-worrier being a former Green? Peculiar. FWIW I’m probably voting Green at the next election, but they do need to sort out their house from the tinfoil-hat wearing wingnuts. Or something. Maybe they can discuss that at the conference.

But they are nutcases – with quite a few 9/11 troofers as you say

Coming from a climate change troofer – that’s pretty funny.

[edited out - you want to get us sued? - ed]

Oh for fuck’s sake. Sued!!?? Beatrix Campbell’s litany of being totally wrong on a whole series child abuse cases is a matter of record, it’s in papers,it’s on the web

From Cleveland, through Nottingham, the Orkneys to Newcastle.

Daily Express: “She (Campbell) claimed the (Newcastle) council inquiry was “stringent” and had found “persuasive evidence of sadistic and sexual abuse of up to 350 children.”

Oh yeah?

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006D9B9.htm

http://www.bfms.org.uk/site_pages/shieldfield.htm

http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CAF17.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/aug/04/childprotection

“the damage she’s done along the way – to families, to social workers – in her relentless pursuit of self-aggrandizement is always going to be front and centre of a lot of people’s minds.” That’s a comment on The Guardian CiF, safe enough for you? She has never made an apology, or a retraction. Beatrix Campbell is essentially a Bea-ist above all else.

There are Greens tearing their hair out she’s been chosen as a PPC (for Hampstead & Kilburn, not Hampstead & Highgate as I said above, & it has a large Green vote) and voters who say they intended to vote Green but will not now do so. You have to question a party that chooses her as a PPC.

Add to that she still (in her usual, tortuous and mangled prose) boasts of her career in the CPGB, as a Eurocommunist and as part of the ‘Marxism Today’ grouping, while laying into New Labour. The irony here is that the Eurocommunists and ‘Marxism Today’ were one of the ideological heirs of Blairism and New Labour. But self-awarness was never her strong point.

And she now thinks all parties of the left, except the Greens are ‘mens movements’ inimical to the interests of women.

If you want to to find out what people of all political shades (including some Greens) think of Campbell go to the comments section on here. I’ve never known someone get such a coating on CiF (except possibly Trudie Styler)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/18/green-party-candidate-communist?showallcomments=true#comment-51

I leave it with one of those comments:

“When Peter Tatchell joined the Green Party, I seriously gave thought to signing up. If it’s good enough for him, I reckoned…

Any party that is home to an instinctively authoritarian, dogmatic, anti-rationalist ideologue like Bea is no place for me.