6/ Adrian’s main message is that the party needs to remain focused on climate and environment, on cost-of-living issues, & on building broad support. He is not calling for purges or purity tests but does argue that we need to look at ways of making sure that party processes…

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4/ Given that some of these people are calling on social media for several of our elected MPs to be deselected &/or booted out of the party for daring to disagree with them on the ZiR motion, this doesn't seem wildly off (& I don’t believe such views reflect those of most Greens)

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3/ Adrian does *not* say that the huge increase in Green membership is down to “entryism”, and he gives credit to Zack Polanski’s role in this phenomenal growth. He does say that a small number of people among the new intake want to fundamentally change the nature of the party.

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2/ He also says clearly that he doesn’t see the Zionism Is Racism motion as racist or antisemitic, but explains why he disagrees with it (its implicit call for the abolition of the state of Israel, which he sees as being incompatible with Green principles of self-determination).

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Usually we have loads of trick or treaters and this year barely anyone has turned up. So I now have industrial quantities of Haribo going spare. Oh well.

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