Yes to Green Leadership
Britain needs leadership. Green leadership
Leadership is the inspiring, organising, motivating force that makes sure good ideas actually get put into practice. The Green Party has such good ideas. We have so much potential. But if we as greens do not realise our potential, and soon, we will not just be letting ourselves down; we will be selling-short our planet and everything on it. We owe it to the world to make Green ideas work, and make them work now; not in 10 or 15 years but right now, from today. Ours is a generation perhaps unique in all of human history. And ours is a political party uniquely placed to make a difference.
The referendum - your say
In November 2007, a referendum ballot will be sent to all members of the Green Party of England and Wales. The question before them will be whether we should retain the posts of "Male and Female Principal Speaker" with no vote on the Executive, or to replace them with a "Leader and Deputy" or "Co-Leaders", with responsibility for presentation of policy and election campaigns and a vote each on the Executive.
Green Party Conference has already agreed by majority vote that this motion should be put to the broader membership, and that is why it is before you now.
I hope that you will join me and help stregthen the Green Party's democracy, participation and effectiveness by voting "Yes" in the upcoming referendum.
If you are not already a member of the Green Party, but would like to join and help the Green Party take its rightful place at the centre of British politics, you can join here.
Leadership is the inspiring, organising, motivating force that makes sure good ideas actually get put into practice. The Green Party has such good ideas. We have so much potential. But if we as greens do not realise our potential, and soon, we will not just be letting ourselves down; we will be selling-short our planet and everything on it. We owe it to the world to make Green ideas work, and make them work now; not in 10 or 15 years but right now, from today. Ours is a generation perhaps unique in all of human history. And ours is a political party uniquely placed to make a difference.
The referendum - your say
In November 2007, a referendum ballot will be sent to all members of the Green Party of England and Wales. The question before them will be whether we should retain the posts of "Male and Female Principal Speaker" with no vote on the Executive, or to replace them with a "Leader and Deputy" or "Co-Leaders", with responsibility for presentation of policy and election campaigns and a vote each on the Executive.
Green Party Conference has already agreed by majority vote that this motion should be put to the broader membership, and that is why it is before you now.
I hope that you will join me and help stregthen the Green Party's democracy, participation and effectiveness by voting "Yes" in the upcoming referendum.
If you are not already a member of the Green Party, but would like to join and help the Green Party take its rightful place at the centre of British politics, you can join here.
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posted by Jon at 8:41 PM
3 Comments:
Are you saying that our current Principal Speakers are not providing the "leadership" you require?
Our current Principal Speakers provide excellent leadership, despite the fact that they are not elected to do so and they are not held accountable for their leadership.
They are not allowed to vote on the Party Executive (and consequently, there is no record of how they voted) and they have no mandate to lead the party, they are part of an ill-defined "collective leadership" including the Executive, the Regional Council and, some would say, the Standing Orders Committee.
I'm backing a Yes vote in the referendum to formalise these de facto leadership positions.
I've spent a long time working in co-operatives and "flat" structured organisations and I've seen the kind of invisible hierarchies these produce. I'd far rather we were honest with ourselves and the electorate.
EH?
They are "accountable" in that they have to re-stand for election every year.
They have a "mandate" to "speak" for and on behalf of the party as do other subject speakers.
I am as yet undecided, but leaning to NO. So, I would appreciate some more info on "invisible heirarchies"
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