The Party's Over

Do you support Motion A105, or do you oppose it?

There is no shortage of Green councillors who will now have to explain their position to their constituents. They can:

• support Motion A105;
• oppose Motion A105 while remaining in the Green Party;
• publicly call for the motion to be reversed;
• or leave the party.

The public deserves to know which choice each councillor has made.

Motion A105 does not merely criticise the policies of an Israeli government.

It declares the Green Party an anti-Zionist party, supports a single Palestinian state throughout historic Palestine, and calls for Zionism to be treated as a form of racism. Read it line by line, or the motion as issued, with its lists of supporters.

That creates an obvious political question:

Can a councillor who believes that Zionism is not racism continue to represent a party that has formally declared that it is?

And an equally important question for voters:

Do Green voters know what their local councillor thinks about Motion A105?

A public record of Green councillors' positions. For each councillor: name, council, ward, position on Motion A105, whether they have publicly opposed it, whether they have called for its reversal, whether they have left the Green Party, and the public statement or source.

No anonymous claims. No rumours. No invented positions. Just what councillors themselves have said or done, with publicly available evidence: the motion's own printed lists of supporters, the pledge they signed on this site in their own name, or their recorded departure from the party. A councillor with nothing on the record is listed as exactly that.

And ask them to put their answer on the record: a Green councillor can sign the pledge in a minute, and the answer goes on this register the same day.

This campaign is about political accountability.

• Do not threaten councillors.
• Do not harass them.
• Do not contact them repeatedly.
• Do not publish private information.

Ask legitimate political questions, request an answer, record the response and let voters decide what they think.

The Green Party is led by Zack Polanski. The question now is whether the party's leadership can maintain political credibility while defending a position that has generated such intense controversy.

The issue is bigger than one conference motion. Political parties depend upon elected representatives being willing to defend the positions adopted in their name. When a party adopts a controversial position, councillors have to decide whether they can continue to stand under that banner. For Green councillors, Motion A105 makes that question unavoidable.

The Party's Over will document what happens next.