Green Autumn Conference Motion Rankings

Written By Alexander Sallons

I hate myself for having read all of these….

It’s that time of year again, Green Party Autumn Conference is coming! (Shouts and cheers and also weeping for our social lives.) That means we need to go through the ****52**** motion on this year’s Prioritisation Ballot and rank them.

I cannot be physically bothered to actually rank them all, instead they’ll be grouped into broad categories, based on my personal opinion on the motions and what I think the party needs.

E Motions are Policy Motions, D Motions are Organisational Motions, so changes to the Constitution and such.

When filling out the prioritisation ballot, remember to read all the instructions, rank all the motions, and thank SOC for their hard work.

  • Motions listed here are the ones I'm actually going to turn up for, pay attention to, or actually change the party for the better. In no particular order.

    • E04 - Abolish Landlords - My own motion, it's good policy, timely, helps the Party in this Parliament.

    • D04 - Allow Two Women to be Co-Leaders - A useful reform to the Constitution.

    • D08 - Change the Governance Structures of the Party - Wholesale reform of the Party Constitution that's been worked on by GPRC for years, democratising, instituting internal PR elections. Good shit.

    • D09 - Change the Members Code of Conduct - See above.

    • D10 - Change the Standing Orders of Party Discipline - See above again.

    • E19 - Green Rail Strategy for the Midlands and the North - The Pro HS2 motion, or rather, making the Green Party pro-trains in practice as well as in theory.

    • E22 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Title is too long - Timely Policy.

    • E23 - New Deal for Carers - Good policy, very timely, great to campaign on.

  • Motions under "Good" are ones that I would say aren't essential to the running of the party, or its electoral priorities, but are nonetheless good motions I'd support.

    In no particular order.

    • D03 - Allowing All Special Interest Groups to Propose Motions

    • E07 - "Care Experience" as a protected characteristic

    • E09 - Electrify the East West Railway Line from the beginning

    • D14 - Ensure diversity of Candidates for Internal Elections

    • E20 - Greyhound Racing Ban

    • E21 - Improving trans policy on non-binary identities

    • E26 - Reforming Trans Healthcare

    • D07 - Amend the Standing Orders of Party Discipline

    • E06 - Anti-Hindutva Humanitarian Stance

  • Meh describes motions I think are either entirely untimely, so doesn't need to be here, or motions I think the Green Party doesn't need to discuss at our Autumn Conference.

    Again, my personal opinion.

    • D01 - Add a Constitution Section on Spokespeople

    • E04 - Addressing the dire need for AI regulation

    • E05 - Aligning policies with the Global Biodiversity Framework

    • D06 - Amend the remit of Campaigns Committee

    • E08 - Covid and Long Covid

    • D12 - EDI Accreditations and Memberships

    • D13 - Eliminate External Influence in GPEW internal democracy

    • E17 - Freeports

    • E28 - Set up a Constitutional Commission to look at Post-Brexit UK Constitutional Issues

    • D21 - Special Interests Need Special Manifestoes

    • E29 - Supporting 50s Women CEDAWInLaw Campaign

    • E31 - Zane's Law

  • This category is for Enabling Motions, Motions which allow the work of Policy Working Groups to rewrite chapters of policy to continue.

    Any motion with Enabling in the title will probably be Fast tracked, so it's not going to be debated, and isn't worth ranking highly.

  • Motions which are people's personal Hobbyhorses and unlikely to feed in to anything politically relevant, or things people could achieve at a committee meeting rather than Conference. It simply could have been an email.

    • E18 - GPEW and the Global Climate and Ecological Emergency

    • E25 - Reaffirm the UK's Commitment to timely Climate Action

    • E27 - Response to the Call for Evidence on Net Zero Governance

    • D19 - Restore Spring Conference

  • Motions that either add nothing, like the two manifesto motions, or simply tinker rather than feeding into larger governance reforms.

    • E01 - 2024 General Election Manifesto - Clarity on Climate

    • E02 - 2024 General Election Manifesto and Economics

    • D02 - Transparent and Accountable Governance

    • D05 - Amend para 14 of the Constitution

    • D15 - Extraordinary Conferences for Remaining Conference Business

    • D17 - Counter Partisanship and Build Consensus Skills

  • Motions to rank at the absolute bottom, under any Enabling motions, they don't deserve points.

    • D11 - Conflict of Interested - Joint Membership of SOC and GPRC (Let's have less coordination between vital governance structures.)

    • E24 - Cass and Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Transphobia)

    • D18 - Reducing conflict over gender critical debate (Please be nice to transphobes.)

    • D20 - Revise Safe Spaces Policies to Enable Proper Debate within the Party (Please don't kick out transphobes for doing transphobia.)

    • E30 - Yes to Public Transport, No to Greenwashing HS2 (We like trains but not building them.)

If you’ve read all that, the link to the Prioritisation Ballot is here.

Alexander Sallons
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