The Green Party's Orphanage: What Happens When Britain's Political Refuge Gets Power.
Why the Greens are collapsing under the weight of their own compassion.
The Green Party has a problem, and it’s not climate change.
Read that again. The Green Party - the party literally founded to address environmental issues - has a problem, and climate change isn’t it.
That’s how comprehensively they’ve lost the plot.
The Greens have accidentally become Britain’s largest political orphanage - a dumping ground for every emotionally volatile, grievance-addled stray who couldn’t function in an actual political party. And like any institution crammed full of problem children from broken backgrounds, it requires brutal authority to maintain even basic order.
Except you lot categorically reject authority. Because authority is oppressive. Hierarchical. Triggering. Problematic.
Which means you’re running an asylum where the inmates genuinely believe they’re the therapists. And while you’re all busy validating each other’s feelings, the planet you claim to care about is burning.
Welcome to the Orphanage.
Look around your local Green Party meeting. Go on. Really look.
What do you see? Environmentalists? Maybe three. The rest is a carnival of personal dysfunction cosplaying as political engagement.
There’s the middle-class professional performing their progressive credentials because their actual job involves gentrifying working-class neighbourhoods. The perpetually traumatised activist whose every policy position is just their childhood issues with a green veneer. The person who’s made their identity category their entire personality and demands everyone else does too. The conspiracy theorist who swapped chemtrails for slightly more respectable eco-anxiety. The NIMBY who discovered that “protecting local green spaces” sounds better than “I don’t want those people near my house.”
And you. Yes, you. The one currently thinking “well, I’m not like that” while being exactly like that.
You all ended up here for the same reason: you were politically homeless. Labour wouldn’t validate your feelings. The Lib Dems expected coherent policy positions. The Tories were obviously unthinkable. So you found the Greens - the party that promises to centre the marginalised, amplify unheard voices, and create safe spaces.
The party that would finally treat your personal angst as if it mattered.
And in doing so, you completely forgot what the party was actually for.
The Therapy Session Never Ends.
Here’s what you actually wanted: a political support group. A place where your grievances would be validated, your trauma acknowledged, your identity affirmed. Where every meeting feels like group therapy and every policy debate is really about whose pain gets prioritised.
What you accidentally created: an ungovernable mess of incompatible neuroses all demanding equal airtime while the environmental agenda - you know, the reason the party exists - gets buried under endless disputes about pronouns and identity.
The Green Party is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on legal battles over gender ideology. Four consecutive co-chairs of Green Party Women have been suspended or expelled for questioning gender identity theory. Your former co-leader resigned because the party wouldn’t maintain ideological purity on trans rights. Meanwhile, your flagship Bristol administration can’t even get the basics of local governance right.
You’ve created a political party where hurt feelings trump environmental strategy. Where being the most oppressed in the room grants you more influence than actually understanding climate science. Where suggesting the party should focus on its founding purpose gets you labelled a reactionary.
The planet doesn’t care about your validation needs. But you’ve made the Green Party care more about your validation needs than about the planet.
The Bristol Bloodbath.
Let’s talk about Bristol. Your flagship Green administration. Your proof of concept.
They’re implementing policies despite 54% resident opposition. Selling off 1,222 council homes while promising to build 1,000 new ones annually. Stonewalling Freedom of Information requests. Walking out of scrutiny meetings. Using police and drones to enforce traffic schemes.
This is what happens when the orphanage gets power. When people raised on validation and emotional safety suddenly have to make executive decisions. When the problem children who joined a party specifically because it would never discipline them discover they now have to discipline an entire city.
And what are they actually achieving environmentally? Traffic schemes that generate massive local opposition without meaningful emissions reductions. Virtue signalling over substance. Progressive aesthetics over environmental outcomes.
The cognitive dissonance is exquisite. You’re implementing authoritarian policies while maintaining progressive aesthetics. You’re wielding power while pretending you’re still marginalised. You’re doing exactly what you accused other parties of doing, except with better virtue signalling and worse environmental results.
What the Party Was Actually For.
Here’s what you’ve forgotten: the Green Party was founded to address environmental issues. Not to be a therapeutic refuge for identity politics. Not to fight internal battles over gender ideology. Not to provide validation for every grievance that doesn’t fit elsewhere.
The clue is in the name. Green. Environment. Ecology. Climate.
But you’ve spent the last several years tearing yourselves apart over issues that have nothing to do with saving the planet. You’ve expelled women for stating basic biology. You’ve spent an estimated £400,000 defending discrimination cases you lost. You’ve driven out former leaders who dared to prioritise different issues.
Dr Shahrar Ali - your former deputy leader - was unlawfully discriminated against for his gender-critical beliefs. The court found the party “produced no evidence” to warrant his removal. You lost. You were ordered to pay him £99,100 in damages and costs.
Emma Bateman, former co-chair of Green Party Women, has been expelled three times for questioning gender ideology. She’s taking you to court. Using the same lawyers who demolished you in the Ali case.
Four consecutive co-chairs of Green Party Women - Dawn Furness, Emma Bateman, Zoe Hatch, and Jude English - suspended or expelled for gender-critical beliefs.
Siân Berry, your former co-leader, resigned in July 2021 because she “could no longer make the claim that the party speaks unequivocally” on trans rights after members elected spokespeople whose views she found incompatible with party values.
This is what you’ve prioritised. This is where your energy goes. This is what tears your party apart.
Not climate policy. Not environmental strategy. Not actually saving the planet you claim to care about.
Gender ideology has eaten the Green Party from the inside out.
The Choice You Refuse to Make.
The Green Party needs to decide what it actually is.
Are you an environmental party focused on climate change, ecological collapse, and planetary survival? Or are you a therapeutic collective for progressive identity politics that happens to have “Green” in the name?
Because right now, you’re failing catastrophically at both.
You can’t do serious environmental policy when every meeting descends into trauma processing. You can’t build electoral coalitions when you’re expelling people for biological facts. You can’t govern effectively when ideological purity matters more than practical outcomes.
And you certainly can’t save the planet when you’re spending all your time, money, and energy fighting internal battles over issues that have absolutely nothing to do with environmental policy.
The UKIP comparison is instructive. They became the refuge for political homelessness, attracting every grievance-obsessed person with nowhere else to go, briefly succeeded, then imploded as incompatible factions tore each other apart.
You’re following exactly the same trajectory. Except UKIP at least stayed focused on their actual issue - leaving the EU. You’ve completely abandoned yours.
The Ramsay Impossibility.
Adrian Ramsay faces an impossible task. Anyone trying to lead the Green Party does.
Because to save the party, they’d need to make a choice. Environment or identity politics. Climate or pronouns. Actual governance or therapeutic validation.
They’d need to tell you - specifically you, reading this, feeling that hot flush of recognition and rage - that the party has lost its way. That personal trauma is not environmental policy. That gender ideology battles are not a climate strategy. The Green Party needs to remember it’s supposed to be saving the planet, not validating your feelings.
They’d need Stalinist ruthlessness to refocus the party on its founding purpose. To purge the mission creep. To expel the entryists who’ve turned an environmental party into an identity politics battleground.
And they can’t because the orphanage is now running the asylum. The people who joined for validation now outnumber the people who joined for environmental policy. The therapy collective has completely overtaken the political party.
The Mirror.
So look. Really look.
At your party. At your meetings. At your priorities. What you actually spend your time, energy, and money fighting about.
At yourself.
You joined the Greens because you wanted to be heard. To be seen. To have your pain validated and your identity affirmed. You wanted a political party that would finally treat you the way you think you deserve to be treated.
And in getting exactly what you wanted, you destroyed what the party was actually for.
Every council the Greens control becomes a circus of incompetence focused on progressive aesthetics over environmental outcomes. Every policy announcement is a masterclass in saying everything while meaning nothing. Every election is a disappointing reality check that most voters want climate action and competent governance, not therapy sessions and identity politics.
You built an orphanage for broken people, filled it with problem children, and then acted shocked when they couldn’t save the planet.
The Killer Blow.
Here’s the final, brutal truth:
The Green Party doesn’t have an authority problem. It has a purpose problem.
You’ve forgotten what you’re for. You’ve abandoned environmental policy for identity politics. You’ve replaced climate strategy with trauma processing. You’ve expelled people for stating biological facts while the planet burns.
The tragedy isn’t just that you’re ungovernable. It’s that there is real environmental work that needs doing. Actual climate policy that needs implementing. Genuine ecological crisis that requires serious people making hard decisions based on science, not feelings.
But you’ll never achieve any of it.
Because you didn’t join the Greens to save the planet.
You joined to save yourself.
And while you were busy validating each other’s pronouns, arranging therapy circles, and expelling women for asking questions, the actual environmental crisis - the thing the party was created to address - got left behind.
The planet doesn’t give a shit about your feelings. And the Green Party has forgotten that saving the planet was supposed to be the point.
This piece examines how the Green Party of England and Wales has abandoned its founding environmental purpose for identity politics warfare - not from partisan bias, but from documented observation. Every claim is sourced. Every pattern is evidenced. If this makes you uncomfortable, ask yourself: when did the Green Party last prioritise the planet over pronouns?
SOURCES & VERIFICATION.
All claims in this article can be verified through the following documented sources:
Legal Cases:
Dr Shahrar Ali v Green Party (2024): BBC News, 9 Feb & 13 Sept 2024; Court Judgment J00CL858
Emma Bateman's ongoing case: Crowdfunder “The Green Party must respect our sex!”
Leadership & Resignations:
Siân Berry resignation (July 2021): openDemocracy, 17 July 2021; PinkNews, 14 July 2021
Suspensions & Expulsions:
Gender Critical Greens tracking database: gcgreens.uk/suspended-expelled-resigned
Multiple Green Party Women co-chairs expelled: Gender Critical Greens, Tribunal Tweets
Bristol Green Administration:
Housing data, FOI stonewalling, traffic schemes: thealmightygob.com (Bristol Council coverage)
East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood opposition data: Bristol City Council public consultations
Party History:
Maingreen Affair (1980s): Wikipedia, Green Party (UK)
UKIP comparison: Multiple political analyses, publicly available
Current Context:
Lloyd Russell-Moyle defection (Nov 2025): Yahoo News UK, 20 Nov 2025
Party membership figures: Green Party official statements, Novara Media, 13 Nov 2025
All sources accessed November 2025.