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It's very difficult, isn't it. Staying at home is the only uncomplicated option in this situation. However, the chances are probably quite slim that the average householder has a clue who Emma Bateman is. And anyone who asked you "why was she pushed out?" might appreciate an honest answer: though it might not incite them to vote Green or, even less, join the party in its current state of gender cult capture.

I am being bombarded by emails from Green candidates (some already Brighton & Hove City Councillors) to donate or help canvass or deliver leaflets for the May local election. I replied to the first few saying sorry, I'm 81 with mobility problems -- which saved me from needing to explain how I felt about the gender issue. That would likely be particularly contentious here, as the gay capital of the UK with an aggressively LGBTQIA+ Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle for Brighton Kemptown where I live: as a marginal which the Brighton Pavilion Greens appear to have finally woken up to as an electoral prospect.

But the Green candidate's leaflet for my ward in the last local election was so complacent, generalised and could-be-anywhere, that I voted for an Independent: concerned with traffic jams on the coastal road, persistently missed waste & recycling collections, and buying some open space for community use as orchards and allotments. As a much better bet.

And this time one of the Independent candidates is an energy specialist and active member of Saltdean Climate Action Network (with a Facebook page). So no question who I'll be voting for.

But it's still very sad what's happened to Green politics.

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