Groundhog Day for Green Party Unlawful GC Discrimination
Groundhog Day for Green Party Unlawful GC Discrimination
Latest: May 3, 2026
Green Party Actual Danger to Society
My litigation against the Green Party is progressing well, thanks to your continued support. I am deeply grateful to everyone who responded to my last appeal. Thank you from every fibre of my being.
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Read moreFormer Deputy Leader Instructs Lawyers to take Green Party to Court a Second Time for Unlawful Gender Critical Discrimination
I need your help to meet the Green Party of England and Wales in court again! The extremist gender identity authoritarian mob simply cannot go unchallenged. You do not need to care about the future of the Green Party to recognise the dangers of allowing a political association – one responsible, no less, for procuring primary legislators for election – to break the law and to continue to do so with impunity once found guilty.
Landmark GC discrimination case in Politics
In February 2024, I won my claim for unlawful discrimination against the Green Party after they removed me, two years earlier, as a front bench Justice Spokesperson (Ali vs GPEW). It had already been established by Forstater at the Employment Appeal Tribunal, in 2021, that belief in sex realism was Worthy of Respect in a Democratic Society. In my case, the courts also ruled that, despite the necessarily higher thresholds for lawful freedom of expression in political associations, politicians were still protected from gender critical belief discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. The Green Party had breached that threshold.
Following my appointment as a national spokesperson, I was subjected to an unrelenting campaign of harassment, led by Sian Berry and others, that culminated in my unjust removal. Judge Hellman found that the Party had produced no evidence to warrant my removal; they had breached procedural fairness in doing so; and had discriminated against me because of my gender critical belief (Shahrar Ali wins 'gender critical' court battle against Green Party, BBC, 9 Feb 2024). The Party expended vast sums (I would estimate £400,000) to defend the case and lost. They had to pay damages and, at a subsequent hearing, I was also awarded 60% of my costs, too (Greens hit with £90,000 bill after discrimination case, BBC, 13 Sep 2024).
Unlawful Discrimination since the Win
I remained an active member throughout those proceedings, able to contest elections internally and externally (such as the London Assembly). However, in August 2024, the Green Party subjected me to two sets of complaints, concurrently – each based on my sex realist statements on social media. They subsequently notified me of two types of sanction, purporting to both suspend and exclude me, simultaneously, which had the effect of removing the rights associated with my membership in a targeted act of overkill.
After 22 years an active member, having just won a two-year court battle against the Party, you can imagine my horror and dismay at being so blatantly discriminated against, again; excluded with breathtaking chutzpa. Despite an encouragement from the judge for rapprochement between the parties, and fat chance of an apology from the Party, I found myself being punished instead. This felt like victimisation on steroids!
Persecuted for my stance on Puberty Blockers and Age-inappropriate educational materials
In the first set, the Party heard four complaints against me, each alleging “transphobia”, suddenly accelerated to a disciplinary hearing after they reversed their decision to undertake a proper investigation first. The allegation central to the complaints was that I had somehow compared gender identity to schizophrenia. I did, however, compare the age-inappropriateness of wanting to teach a two-year old the concept of transgender identity to the inappropriateness of wanting to teach schizophrenia, to illustrate relative complexity of ideas. I argued, and still maintain, no reasonable person would want to teach either of those things to that age and I criticised Stonewall for pushing their ideological agenda down the throats of unwitting kids.
I was also disciplined for seeking to bring a motion to conference, in 2021, that would have banned GenderGP from dispensing puberty blockers in the UK. Instead of being commended for my foresight in anticipating the risk of harm to children, as subsequently evidenced by the Cass recommendations and the PB moratorium on NHS and private providers, I received a two-year exclusion from the Party and five-year ban on standing for all internal and external positions upon readmission.
Disciplined for Criticising Imane Khelif in Women's Boxing
In August 2024, the Party suspended me on an emergency “no-fault basis” following a further complaint from one of the earlier complainants. This one was to do with my criticism of the obscene spectacle of the International Olympics Committee granting Imane Khelif, whom I described as male and correctly attributed sexed pronouns to match, entry into the women’s boxing competition. I regarded the consequences for fairness and safety of female competitors as grotesque. According to the disciplinary referral group, convened by an officer who had publicly boasted about wanting to remove me from the Party, “There is no justification for presuming that she [sic. Imane Khelif] is male. No evidence.” Anybody who has followed reports into Khelif’s sex eligibility tests, will know this to be a demonstrably unsafe assumption. I was suspended for “misgendering” Khelif even though I had correctly sexed him; and Khelif has confirmed that he does not identify as transgender.
Procedural Unfairness on Kafkaesque Scale
As Gandhi once said, the means is the ends in the making. Justice is a perfect example of both means and ends; just as procedural justice subverted is justice denied. As with the first case, I believe my legal team will be able to compellingly argue that I have been subjected to gross abuse of disciplinary process by agents of the Green Party, acting in a coordinated effort to subdue the lawful expression of my gender critical belief within and outside the party. The examples of procedural abuse are legion – from refusal of officers with clear conflicts of interest to recuse themselves to convening inquorate hearings and playing fast and loose with disciplinary standing orders. When the time comes, I will press for the court hearings to be live streamed so that the fanatical rot of the Green Party and their mob perpetrators can be fully exposed to the electors.
The Party is currently denying the timely supply of my personal data that would probably assist me in defending myself against the onslaught of abuse of disciplinary process. In October 2024, I made a data subject access request: six months on this has still not been supplied, despite their repeat promises that it would be.
Appeal for Funds
I was deeply moved by the groundswell of moral and financial support for my first legal case. I cannot overstate my indebtedness to everybody's generosity, however small or large your donations, often on a repeat or regular basis. I faced financial ruin, and significant hardship, over the course of the last legal fundraising campaign.
I need your support again now, please. The Green Party has become a morally bankrupt imposter of its former self – who would:
1. Cheer on effective mutilation of children’s bodies, despite Cass;
2. Refuse to condemn balaclava-clad incitement to hatred of women by TRA fanatics on marches that they would themselves sponsor;
3. Abandon all reason when it comes to the protection of single-sex spaces for women and same-sex attracted lesbian associations.
The Green Party's disinformation around the Supreme Court ruling has been as contemptible as has been their denial of the reasons for my court victory.
The Green Party is playing a dangerous game. They have inflicted significant detriment upon me already – preventing me from attending conference last year to move a motion on Cass and seeking to stop me from standing for the London Assembly or a future leadership election this year (in 2021, I garnered 21% of first preference votes). The fanatics are terrified that I could win a leadership election on the back of a court victory and among a membership that is becoming increasingly wised up to the authoritarian intoxication. No longer a serving spokesperson, they would be even harder pushed to justify my exclusion on such disproportionate terms. A second court win against them could cost them bankruptcy.
Can You help me Raise £10,000 in May?
I am initially seeking £10,000 over the next two weeks. This will enable me to fully engage my legal team to complete an objective assessment of my chances and home in on the best legal strategy. I would expect a Letter Before Action and Particulars of Claim to follow shortly thereafter.
I have instructed Doyle Clayton, one of the most formidable discrimination firms on the circuit, engaging the services of James Murray and Peter Daly. I have extraordinary confidence in my counsel, Jeffrey Jupp KC, in bringing to bear his power of legal persuasion and political insight. He was able to face down two wrecking applications from the Green Party, before commanding every argument at trial and the costs hearing.
In politics as in court, the Green Party plays nothing if not dirty. We, however, play clean – because the truth, as with justice, will continue to prevail.
Caption/Credit: Shahrar Ali Judging a Debating Matters panel March 2025: House of Lords 2025/Roger Harris
Shahrar Ali
May 3, 2026
Green Party Actual Danger to Society
My litigation against the Green Party is progressing well, thanks to your continued support. I am deeply grateful to everyone who responded to my last appeal. Thank you from every fibre of my being.
On 24 April, I had a hard-hitting appearance on the Daily T podcast, available across multiple platforms. You can watch or listen here:
Beware the Greens, warns ex-deputy leader: ‘They are a danger to society’ | The Daily T (You Tube) and Spotify.
Unfortunately, Ellie Chowns, featured after me, grossly misrepresented my court win, which is the usual way with the party apparatchiks briefing her. I won the main claim, and the party lost again at the costs hearing. The judgment did not establish any new right to remove spokespeople, which was never in dispute. Nor was this a simple procedural error.
The party failed to produce any evidence that I breached the code of conduct or misrepresented policy, even after prolonged litigation. I believe this mischaracterisation underlies the party’s continued unlawful conduct and one of the core reasons they will lose a second time. With denial and refusal to combat unlawful discrimination comes liability, especially when perpetrating against the person who had just beaten them, truly unhinged misconduct!
On 27 April, Spiked published my article setting out the gender-critical legal fightback in court. You can read it here: The Green Party has become a monster: Former deputy leader Shahrar Ali on the authoritarian rot at the heart of Zack Polanski’s machine.
Regrettably, and for reasons I consider closely connected to the long-standing gender-critical discrimination within the party, the Green Party is now losing its sense of purpose on core principles.
Thank you again for your continued support. I could not do this without you! Big hugs!
Shahrar Ali
April 18, 2026
The Disclosure Battle against the Green Party: Help us to force full Compliance
My second litigation against the Green Party of England and Wales is progressing well. Thanks to your continued moral and financial support, we are now looking towards a trial date later this year. After the party lost a landmark claim of unlawful protected belief discrimination against me in 2024, it swiftly moved to exclude me entirely from membership, just as I was about to bring a motion on the Cass Review to conference. This was an audacious, unhinged act, orchestrated by a network of officers and representatives motivated by ideological hostility towards me.
Let me be clear. By the Green Party’s own admission, gender critical belief, and its expression, is protected across the party, and members must not be unlawfully discriminated against on this basis.
The party’s recent surge in popularity under Zack Polanski’s leadership, both in membership and in electoral support, only heightens the need for accountability when a political association chooses to act as a law unto itself. While internal corruption persists, the party poses a live risk not only to democratic politics but also to the protection of single-sex spaces for women and girls, and to the safeguarding of children and young people from what has emerged as the “gender-affirming” medical scandal of the century.
You can hear me discuss the importance of this gender critical struggle for the soul of the party in a podcast hosted by Free Speech Union, broadcast this week.
In conversation with the superbly well-informed Connie Shaw, I explain the basis of my first legal victory against the party (first 25 min), as well as the additional threat posed by Polanski’s courting of a deeply misogynistic Islamist political movement. See The Green Party is a DANGER to society says Ex Deputy Leader: Dr Shahrar Ali or play above. The podcast was also covered in Telegraph in ‘Islamist’ Green Party is danger to society, says former deputy leader (16 April).
We are currently at the disclosure stage. From the first litigation, we know that the Green Party failed to meet its legal obligations with the necessary rigour. Several key documents surfaced only on the eve of trial, while others had to be compelled by court order during proceedings. My excellent legal team is applying sustained pressure to ensure that the Defendant fully complies this time, and no stone will be left unturned.
As part of my own preparation for trial, I submitted a data subject access request. I had to endure more than a year of continued non-compliance before the Information Commissioner’s Office intervened. The ICO has since confirmed that the Green Party’s “handling of this matter has been logged on our systems as an infringement of the UK’s data protection legislation”. This happened under the new CEO's watch.
Please consider helping me raise the funds needed for this vital next stage in the fight for justice. I am seeking to raise £3,000 by the end of this month.
Shahrar Ali
Oct. 27, 2025
Shahrar Ali Interview on Free Speech Nation
Dear Friends,
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your continued, unwavering support! Last month we served our Particulars of Claim, Ex-Green deputy leader launches new legal action against party (BBC, 26 September 2025).
The Green Party, up to its usual tricks, has not complied with the one month deadline for filing its Defence, but instead decided to give us 24 hours to respond to a deadline extension request on threat of an application otherwise. We have granted them an extension up to 21 November 2025.
On 5 October 2025, I featured on Free Speech Nation and seem to have won a lot of plaudits as I came off air. Our commitment to free speech and women's rights resonates with the public. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your continued support. The totalitarians, defended and enabled by the Green Party, will lose and lose big.
On 21 October 2025, in a separate matter, the Information Commissioner's Office warned the Green Party that its handling of a Data Subject Access Request, submitted by me on 3 October 2024 — yes, over one year ago! — has been logged as "An Infringement of the UK’s Data Protection Legislation". The Party has been given another ultimatum and I shall be pressing for full enforcement action should they continue their refusal to comply with their legal obligations. I have no doubt that their blatant disregard for the law is motivated by cover-up of evidence that would incriminate them in unlawful discrimination against me. They act like a law unto themselves. I remain committed to standing up to institutional corruption of highest order.
On 18-19 October 2025, I spoke at the Battle of Ideas. Many brilliant gender critical friends were also featured and we got together for a group portrait here. Faika al-Nagashi, Maya Forstater, Jo Phoenix, Connie Shaw, James Esses, Denise Fahmy and Rosie Kaye to name but a few inspirational partners in gender critical thought crime pictured plotting!
I am immeasurably grateful for your continued support. Please donate here or using the pledge button.
I will push for public hearings to be made fully accessible so the totalitarian rot of the Green Party can be exposed for the good of women and children's sex-based or everyday rights and for the future health of democratic politics.
I will not let the Green Party wear me down!
Big hugs, Shahrar xx
Shahrar Ali
Sept. 27, 2025
New Claim against Green Party Filed and Served!
Dear Friends,
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your continued, unwavering support! As reported by BBC News, Ex-Green deputy leader launches new legal action against party (BBC, 26 September 2025), Zack Polanski's Green Party is now heading for its second protected belief discrimination case from me.
After winning my landmark claim against them, in February 2024, we are pleading victimisation, too. I think it's important only to litigate when there's no other way and to do so dispassionately. I simply cannot abide by:
- A political association aspiring to make law thinking it can get away with continuing to break the law with impunity!
- Lifelong activists, having built the party up from nowhere, being unlawfully discriminated against for standing up for the rights of women and girls to same-sex spaces and protections.
- The totalitarian subversion of freedom of expression, without which fundamental liberty democratic politics simply cannot function.
For these reasons and more, I cannot allow the officers and representatives - those who continue to hold the party hostage with their ideological fanaticism - go unchallenged through the courts. It is my duty to do so.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your continued support. The totalitarians, defended and enabled by the Green Party, will lose and lose big.
I am relying on the continued support of each and every one of you to help fund this case. We have some significant outgoings this month and I will be forever, immeasurably grateful for any assistance you can offer in helping me reach my current stretch target.
Just a reminder of the kind of authoritarian mind control and thought police the Green Party is in the grip of. These are the kinds of beliefs expressed by me that the Party will have to prove in court justified my exclusion:
- In 2021, I pushed for conference to approve policy to ban GenderGP from dispensing puberty blockers to kids. I must have been ahead of the curve as the government, in December 2024, indefinitely prohibited such dispensing respect to all private providers.
- In 2022, I claimed Stonewall should not be promoting teaching of gender ideology to 2 year old's.
- In 2024, on grounds of safety and fairness, I condemned the Intentional Olympic Committee for allowing Imane Khelif to compete against women in the boxing ring. I described him accurately as male and for this was sanctioned by the Green Party for "misgendering" him.
You can read about my analysis of the recent leadership election here How my beloved Green Party lost the plot (Telegraph, 3 Aug 2025), archived here.
I will push for public hearings to be made fully accessible so the totalitarian rot of the Green Party can be exposed for the good of women and children's sex-based or everyday rights and for the future health of democratic politics. I and my world class legal team will leave no stone unturned.
I will not let you down!
Big hugs, Shahrar xx
Shahrar Ali
July 12, 2025
Letter Before Action Served on 11 July 2025
Yesterday was Groundhog Day for the Green Party of England and Wales, Three years ago, on 4 Feb 2022, the Green Party were served a Letter Before Action. The following day, the Executive Committee persisted in removing me as a national party spokesperson. That act led to a train of events that culminated, in 2024, in a Judgment of unlawful Gender Critical Discrimination against the Party.
What could lead a political association to want to continue discriminating against — and then victimising — the very person who had just beaten them in Court on substantially the same grounds? One way or another, we will find out.
On 11 July 2025, alongside my brilliant solicitor, James Murray partner at Doyle Clayton (pictured with me), we served our Letter Before Action. Nobody should have to abide by discrimination — nor excommunication nor extraordinary persecution — for expressing sex realist belief, in everyday life or in politics.
Thank you to everybody for your generous donations! I could not do this without you! We are poised for Groundhog Day Round 2. To help us to go the legal distance, please continue to pledge using the link on this page. 💚 ♀️
Warmest regards,
Shahrar
Shahrar Ali
May 20, 2025
Huge Thank You to All My Supporters: Initial Target Reached!
Dear Friends,
On 30 April 2025, less than 3 weeks ago, I launched my fresh legal fundraising campaign against the Green Party. Thanks to your incredible support, and almost 200 pledges, I have already reached my initial target of £5,000! These funds will be going over to my legal team in a matter of days. Thank you so much!
I have been writing and speaking about the authoritarian corruption and ideological bankruptcy now represented by the Green Party — a total betrayal of everything we once stood for.
On 9 May 2025, The Green Party is a sinister mob. Take it from me, its former deputy leader was published in The Telegraph — also archived HERE. I talk about how the Party leadership has been incapable of making rational statements about the Supreme Court ruling, destroying the party's credibility instead. In the forthcoming leadership election, the party has sought to suspend or evict all gender critical voices from standing — giving credence to wholly vexatious complaints (including against me, of course, see Greens exclude activist who won discrimination claim, BBC).
In the second article, by Jill Foster, I am extensively quoted alongside fellow Green, Emma Bateman, just a few days earlier (again in The Telegraph, not The Guardian!). How the Green Party forgot the environment and was torn apart by trans rows also archived HERE.
I hope you will enjoy reading these. I also want to plug this incredible briefing from Sex Matters on recent goings on in Parliament around the fight to secure proper recording and management of sex data in the proposed Data Bill: Inaccurate sex data: excuses and bad arguments - Sex Matters. Unfortunately, Green MPs voted irrationally and demonstrated their utter contempt for protection of women's services and spaces.
I felt invigorated by a recent debate hosted at the LSE about the Supreme Court ruling, with an incredible line-up of legal expertise and experience, including Akua Reindorf KC and Naomi Cunningham. You can play back the whole thing HERE, including the Q&A (and I got to ask a question about pronouns at 1.46.00 mark)
I share this noble struggle with all the brilliant people I have had the honour of getting to know and campaign alongside — particularly intensely in recent years. We will continue to prevail and I thank you for your continued support from the bottom of my heart.
I have put the stretch target to £7,500 and will raise it again as required. I have an extraordinarily dedicated and highly competent legal team behind me. We will not let you down. Whether you have pledged £5, £50 or £500, your funds will be used effectively and wisely - of that you can rest assured.
Here's the link again for helping me to raise more funds in what will be another long game: Groundhog Day for Green Party Unlawful GC Discrimination.
Thank you again for your continued support! I am always cheered by those of you leaving such heartfelt comments when you pledge. My fight for sanity is your fight for sanity!
Big Hugs,
Shahrar XX
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