In 2017, I was the secretary to the Green Party executive and a Green town councillor in Padstow and the PPC for the St Austell and Newquay constituency for the local Party.
By the time a year had passed I had been removed from my positions and then excluded.
Ostensibly, I was suspended due to a complaint made by the partner of the previous PPC for St Austell and Newquay, whom I had replaced as PPC. However, this was just a political manoeuvre that suited the parties involved and my gender critical views as a feminist were the real reason.
I was placed under a “no-fault suspension” whilst a supposed investigation was to be carried out. I knew that I was one of the hardest working Greens in the Cornwall area. My feeling was they could not lose me as a local party activist.
I informed GPRC that I had no intention of taking part in a sham process defending myself against a trumped up complaint. I pointed out immediately that this was internal political manoeuvring, that I had done nothing wrong and if the decision wasn’t reversed within two weeks I would pause my activism within the party for a year. A year was the maximum suspension period for the upholding of the sham complaint that had been made.
On doing this I happened to speak informally to another active member of the local party around four months later, who informed me that I had been expelled. I knew nothing of this.
There has been no process involved in this evident expulsion. I had been suspended and informed the co-chairs of GPRC that I would be inactive; it was during this inactive period that I was (evidently on trying to log in to the Green Party website once I had been informed by another activist what had happened) permanently expelled.