Letter of resignation from Green Pary
The Green Party policy over Ukraine supports the UK Govts perpetual-war policy. It urges HM Govt to:
“defend Ukraine’s right to self-determination in the strongest possible terms on the international stage, making explicit that the UK will stand against any bad-faith actors who attempt to bully or intimidate Ukraine into appeasing Russia’s demands. ” (24.2.26)
That is simply an echo of Starmer’s position, which has recently sabotaged the nearly-successful Trump- Putin deal to achieve peace by a compromise solution [That would, basically, have involved accepting and establishing the then-military boundaries of the conflict]. That pro-war position is simply a re-run of what Boris Johnson achieved in April of 2022, when a peace-treaty had been more or less agreed in Istanbul between the warring parties, and he instructed Zelensky not to sign and continue the war- as a consequence of which several hundred thousand Ukrainians have since died. How shocking that the Green Party should now be endorsing this.
What you ignorantly call ‘Russia’s demands’ are the result of the democratic elections of East Ukraine of September 2022, whereby the four ‘oblasts’ (mini-states) – Kherson etc. – voted by overwhelming majorities to leave Ukraine and join the Russian federation – as earlier had Crimea. These are people who have been Russian for a thousand years, who feel they belong to Russia, and were sick of being bombed continually by Kiev ever since 2014. They requested Russia’s aid to rescue them and it did so – eg thanks to Russia the city of Mariopol has now been rebuilt.
A proper Green Party position, in line with its root-policies, (i.e the reason why it exists) should be, that the wishes of the local residents should be paramount. Thus the inhabitants of Luhansk, eg, do they want to go back to the Kiev regime, after being bombed continually (+ denied gas, electricity, water) for so many years – or, are they happy now that they belong to the Russian Federation? I suggest you try to find an answer to that before formulating your pro-war position.
The proper Green Party position should be, that this is a border dispute which does not involve the UK and we should not be supporting Zelensky. The UK has done more than any other European nation to push Europe towards WW3 in this respect and the GP should be denouncing this not supporting it. In the old days when I worked for the GP, the party was anti-war and anti-NATO, why what a turn-around you have made. I guess you will soon be as ardently pro-war as the German Greens have become. Anyone who disagrees with your pro-perpetual war policy you are describing as ‘bad faith actors’, huh.
A policy in line with the old Green Party – which I used to belong to – would involve reducing military expenditure – from its present sixty billion a year – and spending money instead on rescuing British farming (six thousand UK farms closed last year) and rescuing British pubs (one a day closing last year).
Yours in horror and despair,
NK 1.3.26
(author, Ukraine: the Just War, How the West was Lost)
