Congratulations to the newly elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @mothinali.bsky.social
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Dudes an open transphobe.
sep 2, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
@edpoole1975.bsky.social is this the candidate you were supporting for deputy leader?
sep 2, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Congratulations, Mothin!
sep 2, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
Very disappointed. I cast my vote for him before I knew he'd ignored all the questions about trans equality.
sep 2, 2025, 10:33 am • 38 1 • view
Transphobia accusations are a nonsense. If you’re on the left, you can’t criticise muslims.
sep 2, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
First test for @zackpolanski.bsky.social Corbyn faffed on this. We need a strong, explicit, and absolutely clear statement on this. Human rights are not negotiable.
sep 2, 2025, 10:52 am • 40 6 • view
American
sep 2, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view
That's definitely a word.
sep 2, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Words are cheap, as demonstrated by Sultana and Corbyn. No, this time we need firm action. They cannot say "trans people deserve dignity and respect" while allowing a senior to espouse views like he has. No place for transphobes now, and Greens have a history of it.🙄
sep 2, 2025, 12:22 pm • 9 0 • view
Yeeeeeeees!!! Super congrats!!! 🎉🎉🎉
sep 2, 2025, 10:53 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah a transphobe. Break out the champagne. /sarcasm.
sep 2, 2025, 11:03 am • 5 0 • view
Unfortunately this guy is going to now receive huge support from transphobes and anyone who wants to disrupt the Greens and have them getting distracted with internal disputes.
sep 2, 2025, 11:10 am • 8 1 • view
Exactly this - there is no trans debate, trans rights are human rights, any party who entertains terfs is doomed to infighting.
sep 2, 2025, 11:33 am • 8 0 • view
Can't we just take him to the Glienicker Bridge in Berlin and exchange him for Zarah or Nadia or Clive?
sep 2, 2025, 11:55 am • 0 0 • view
Mothin is transphobic. He pulled bullshit stunts to try and conceal it and his mask slipped the second the votes were counted. I hope he wises up or his term in office may be very uncomfortable.
sep 2, 2025, 10:46 am • 42 3 • view
He's not going to wise up, he's going to get roasted by the membership whenever he says anything. * cracks knuckles *
sep 2, 2025, 5:24 pm • 4 0 • view
So basically both the Greens and Your Party are having problems with trans discrimination. Great!
sep 2, 2025, 10:40 am • 18 0 • view
not trying to defend the greens but to me the issue with your party is bigger and more fundamental, while this here is more isolated
sep 2, 2025, 11:11 am • 14 0 • view
Fair point but in theory once Your Party has been established we can vote Adnan out in a selection process, if it is to be as democratic as they say.
sep 2, 2025, 11:15 am • 0 0 • view
there are several other people who are transphobic already afaik
sep 2, 2025, 11:15 am • 5 0 • view
Personally, I’m reserving myself until the party is formed to see if this can be stamped out or if it’s going to be an ongoing problem. It’s early days, but I won’t fault anyone who is counting themselves out already.
sep 2, 2025, 11:20 am • 0 0 • view
I think the percentage of transphobes and the unwillingness by the not-explicitly-transphobes to try to push against the transphobes transphobia gives me approximately zero hope for this party.
sep 2, 2025, 11:36 am • 2 0 • view
That’s fine, but the Greens also have a transphobia problem. Not healthy to pretend just bc Zack has been elected then it’s going to go away. Unless he starts purging people, and that would include Adrian Ramsay.
sep 2, 2025, 11:41 am • 0 0 • view
I guess I don't really have hopes for them either but it still seems less shit than founding a new party so badly lol
sep 2, 2025, 11:44 am • 2 0 • view
I would say think about the Greens a few years ago compared to now. Zack’s election was only possible because the left flooded the Greens after Starmer took over Labour. Your Party looks like it will be popular, the more of us get involved, the better to ensure we have the mandate.
sep 2, 2025, 11:52 am • 0 0 • view
I am an anarchist, my experience working with parties has always been that the careerist and status seekers win out in the end because the structures are built to favor them, and in the end it always converges to the mess that is labour.
sep 2, 2025, 11:55 am • 0 0 • view
The transphobes are already seated at the table.
sep 2, 2025, 11:32 am • 1 0 • view
And now they are here too?
sep 2, 2025, 11:36 am • 0 0 • view
(just to be clear I don’t think parties will ever be something to put your trust in)
sep 2, 2025, 11:16 am • 3 0 • view
The Greens also have two transphobic MPs, and one transphobic peer.
sep 2, 2025, 4:00 pm • 2 0 • view
I heard your speech in which you used emotive language about fighting the hard right. Dont you think leaders and in particular political leaders should be more circumspect, less prone to label or ostracize others, more inclined to listen and to convince others through reasoned discussion Response?
sep 2, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol no. We've got 3 parties pandering to fascism & racism. Pick one of those if that's your flavour.
sep 2, 2025, 2:33 pm • 7 0 • view
There are authoritarian neofascists in all mainstream parties. Political parties tend to attract that type, which is why you will be as disappointed with the Greens as others were with the nationalists, lib dems, et al. Time to stop recycling an outmoded approach to democracy and get real.
sep 2, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
is there some procedure that can be taken against someone elected on a false prospectus?
sep 2, 2025, 11:14 am • 13 0 • view
Boooooo
sep 2, 2025, 2:17 pm • 11 0 • view
I voted Rachel and Frank, and really surprised that Mothin made the cut, he is perhaps the least articulate of all the candidates and does not check all the boxes one would hope for. Frank posted this infographic to help highlight the issues:
sep 2, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Ffs. There’s literally no party for me to vote for. What’s the point?
sep 2, 2025, 1:37 pm • 1 0 • view
As someone with mistrust of politicians, I decided to join Greens a few months ago, he stuck out as someone to be avoided. Seems I was right, I've let my membership lapse until he is ousted for deception. Religious excuses for transphobic bigotry should have no place in politics or the modern world.
sep 2, 2025, 2:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Congratulations @mothinali.bsky.social 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
sep 2, 2025, 12:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Not at all good. He felt free to back transphobes as soon as the vote closed. We literally have someone in a key position who is at the very least extremely sympathetic to transphobia, and I'm very disappointed in this
sep 2, 2025, 10:32 am • 113 3 • view
Hopefully between Zack as leader and Rachel Millward as the other deputy leader, there can be some mitigation. 🤞🏻
sep 2, 2025, 10:40 am • 33 0 • view
A single transphobe in the party is one too many. There should be _no_ 'trans debate'. The rights of trans people are basic human rights and are not up for discussion, or even question. Really disappointing from the Green Party membership. They will lose a _lot_ of support from this.
sep 2, 2025, 11:31 am • 36 2 • view
I'm a trans guy, you don't need to tell me how bad this is. I'm trying to remain hopeful that we can still turn things around, since the Greens are the best chance we've got.
sep 2, 2025, 11:47 am • 18 0 • view
After his acceptance speech he explicitly talked about standing with trans people in the face of attack, when he didn't need to say anything, I think your hopes are well founded
sep 2, 2025, 12:05 pm • 9 0 • view
Unfortunately that’s the same “dignity and respect” like Labour politicians peddle too He refused to answer whether trans women are women in the campaign and implied he had a different view because of his faith
sep 2, 2025, 12:08 pm • 13 0 • view
Exactly. We're under threat and we can't afford to give anyone the benefit of the doubt who can't take the simple step of plainly affirming our rights.
sep 2, 2025, 12:10 pm • 3 1 • view
I've been in meetings with Mothin and heard him consistently and genuinely talking and engaging in solidarity. I've also protested against people-who-shout-at-hotels, who mix their racist chants with extreme homophobia, transphobia and misogyny. It's time to fight the latter. They are the threat
sep 2, 2025, 12:16 pm • 7 1 • view
The people-who-shout-at-hotels are not deputy leaders of the Green Party of England and Wales
sep 2, 2025, 12:24 pm • 8 0 • view
And the deputy leader of the Green party will support trans rights against them at every turn, and the rights of all the other people in their sights. I hope that in a year's time, as I expect, you will feel that your fears are unfounded. If not, he can be voted out
sep 2, 2025, 12:28 pm • 4 1 • view
They are *more* of a threat, yes. I don't deny that. But "solidarity" is meaningless when it's issued through bland platitudes. When he can't even bring himself to say trans women are women, how exactly is he going to stand up properly for trans people?
sep 2, 2025, 12:18 pm • 4 0 • view
Solidarity is actively doing things to support and protect each other. I have no trouble saying, as I believe, that trans women are women, but on its own that achieves nothing - just a platitude. Mothin is the deputy leader, so I hope you will see what an actual ally he is over the next 12 months
sep 2, 2025, 12:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Top tip: best not tell people that their rights are less important than other issues, especially to their faces? Progressive politics isn't a zero sum game. You can't leave people behind because you're distracted by something else.
sep 2, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
They are the same issues
sep 2, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope you're right :-)
sep 2, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Transphobes are in every party unfortunately, however there are some safeguards Zack is the leader, Rachel is the other deputy, and the members direct the policy.
sep 2, 2025, 1:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Hand-wringing and saying 'they will always be with us' is no substitute for actually getting rid of them and reassuring a significant group of people at the same time. I don't vote for parties that tolerate transphobia.
sep 2, 2025, 1:21 pm • 0 0 • view
What's the option then? as no party is safe.
sep 2, 2025, 1:24 pm • 0 0 • view
The option is getting rid of them, which is what I just said. There is no excuse - trans rights are a fundamental progressive issue, and a party that ignores them isn't progressive. You're telling trans people their rights don't matter to you.
sep 2, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
If you find me a Party that has a better chance of turning the dial I'm interested until then it's mute.
sep 2, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Just ask yourself who else you'd throw under the bus.
sep 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I literally don't want to throw Trans people under a bus, who do you suppose I vote for?
sep 2, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Literally not, who are you getting rid off tho? one MP can be dealt with, many other parties are harder. Again as a member of the Green party you can vote on policy you don't get that with other party's
sep 2, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I think this is an issue of communication and religion. Mothin seems to sincerely have a belief in a need for solidarity between marginalised groups, but is uncomfortable with the phrasing of queer liberation. To me, as long as he focuses on solidarity, I think he’ll be a good deputy leader.
sep 2, 2025, 10:45 am • 1 0 • view
what did he say? I seem to remember him saying some promising things about LGBT+ rights during his campaign
sep 2, 2025, 10:47 am • 0 0 • view
No, I in fact took the opposite from him. He didn't attend the key hustings, refused to make clear his support of Green party policy on trans rights, inferred he had a different view because of religion. He will not be able to defend our policy on trans rights unfortunately
sep 2, 2025, 10:51 am • 5 0 • view
damn, that's shitty. this was what I was thinking of: bsky.app/profile/moth... Hopefully he's open to changing his mind and getting better on this
sep 2, 2025, 10:55 am • 1 0 • view
I saw that and put him at the bottom of my list. It was a dogshit answer
sep 2, 2025, 5:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe even worse than that, he's a sneaky deceptive liar.
sep 2, 2025, 5:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Not keen on this one. Transphobe.
sep 2, 2025, 10:51 am • 16 0 • view
Oh no😢
sep 2, 2025, 12:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Outnumbered by the others, though.
sep 2, 2025, 12:40 pm • 4 0 • view
👍
sep 2, 2025, 12:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Ah, the briefcase insurance policy
sep 2, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Sad to see you’re transphobic.
sep 2, 2025, 11:24 am • 5 0 • view
@zackpolanski.bsky.social how did this happen? Apparently this guy's a terf. Have we learned nothing from the last utter catastrophe? I know it's not your fault but....😕
sep 3, 2025, 6:17 am • 0 0 • view
😊🏴🇵🇸💚✌
sep 2, 2025, 11:25 am • 0 0 • view
Transphobic con artist.
sep 2, 2025, 11:18 am • 12 0 • view
Don't care for the transphobia. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
sep 2, 2025, 11:26 am • 5 0 • view
The orchestrated pile-on as expected. Most will not be Greens.
sep 2, 2025, 5:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Have to say I’m disappointed with this. He waited for the voting to close before coming out in support of transphobes
sep 2, 2025, 10:49 am • 32 2 • view
Great another transphobe.
sep 2, 2025, 10:56 am • 6 0 • view
This is fucking disappointing we can’t have good news for a single god damn second can we
sep 2, 2025, 10:55 am • 4 0 • view
@mothinali.bsky.social You have a lot of work to do to gain the trust of LGBT members. I do not yet believe that you take our concerns seriously, or that you will defend the human rights of trans people as they are being violated by the state. I hope to be proven wrong.
sep 2, 2025, 11:48 am • 10 0 • view
Nope, not joining until he's OUT.
sep 2, 2025, 11:49 am • 1 0 • view
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sep 2, 2025, 11:44 am • 2 0 • view
Well done @mothinali.bsky.social you'll be brilliant!
sep 2, 2025, 10:44 am • 2 0 • view
Yes another party elected a transphobe. You all love this.
sep 2, 2025, 11:04 am • 12 1 • view
What? He was talking about standing with trans people earlier at the count. I think your judgement may be premature. But I guess we'll see over the next 12 months. If what you say comes to pass he won't get my vote again, it's as straightforward as that.
sep 2, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Congratulations Mothin, now please let trans and gender diverse members know that they are safe with this leadership.
sep 2, 2025, 10:58 am • 4 0 • view