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years before. The strategy was open to criticism for raising hopes unrealistically and not then delivering the necessary changes needed to drive the party forward. However, the Green 2000 group itself felt that the 'decentralists' managed to sap their energies and prevent direction being formed. It also strengthened those in the party who shared Green 2000's electoral bias but thought they were going about in the wrong way.
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The aim that the Green party could enter government by 2005 was optimistic to some, but it reflected an ‘electoral’ bias – the real division in the Green Party. Opponents at the time felt that direct action, grassroots networking and other tactics were more likely to provide political benefit
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The group of Green 2000 supporters that ran the party in 1991–2 presided over an unsuccessful General election campaign, which was ill-prepared, and led to a subsequent demoralization and large drop in membership. The party was also unable to cope with the growth in members it had experienced some
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After the departure of Green 2000 the structures that they had put into place remained. A constitutional review was set in motion which lasted three years which was to finally put a number options to the party conference. However even though there was a clear majority for change none of the
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Although the changes were adopted by the party, many of the members who proposed the changes left the party at the end of the first year's executive, in September 1992, leaving 'decentralists' and a leftist group called
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talking to the Independent about 'socialist parasites' i.e. myself and Penny Kemp who had been members nearly as long as her. They won and then imploded, when the Party received just a couple of percentage at the
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says: “The right around the Green 2000 faction wanted to make us into a mainstream party with mass appeal, ditch the radicalism, reengineer the Party constitution and centralise power. We fought them. I remember
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These Executive and Regional Council structures replaced a very large single "Green Party Council".
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than a focus on gaining councillors and then Westminster seats. Morrissey, for instance, believed:
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in the early 1990s, with the stated aim of getting a Green government by the year 2000.
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Creating a Regional Council to hold the Executive accountable between conferences
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Creating a party Executive of 10 members to replace the Green Party Council of 25
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was a movement to streamline the constitutional arrangements of the
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Creating a single party Chair to replace the three Co-Chairs
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proposals quite gained the needed two-thirds majority.
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The constitutional changes passed in 1991 included:
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Green Party of England and Wales
Principal Speakers
Association of Socialist Greens
Derek Wall
Sara Parkin
1992 General Election
Green Party history
Archived
Wayback Machine


"Article by John Morrisey"
"Interview with Wall"
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Green Party of England and Wales
Leadership
Caroline Lucas
Natalie Bennett
Jonathan Bartley
Siân Berry
Adrian Ramsay
Carla Denyer
Adrian Ramsay
Will Duckworth
Amelia Womack
Shahrar Ali
Zack Polanski
2008

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