t: 40px”>I reacted with fury. “Vote Green if you want to completely ignore medical evidence and see more children pumped full of harmful drugs.” I wrote on X (formerly Twitter) in response to that awful, glib video from Garbett.
I knew at the time it would put my 37-year membership of the party in jeopardy. Numerous women in the party have already been suspended or expelled but I was not going to sit back and stay silent while leading members of the Green Party went out of their way to rubbish the Cass Review. The Green Party has also accused me, erroneously, of endorsing the Labour candidate in Brighton Pavilion. I have not, although I will admit to calling some of my erstwhile colleagues “science-denying loons”. Well, if the cap fits.
I am beyond despair that the political party I’ve been a member of for decades, that has always said “trust the science” when it comes to climate change or air and river pollution, is apparently putting ideology before science when it comes to pushing untested medical treatments for children.
By suspending me this week, the Green Party perhaps hopes it can bully me into silence in the run-up to the general election. They will not succeed. Whether they decide to lift the “temporary suspension” they have slapped on me or expel me on a more permanent basis, I will not stop speaking out on this grotesque medical scandal that has harmed many vulnerable young people and harmed the credibility of the political movement I’ve spent most of my life fighting for.
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