Green Empowerment Campaign

About us

We are a group of members of the Green Party of England and Wales who are seeking to uphold the Green Party's long-standing commitment to non-hierarchical structures and 'grassroots' democracy. We oppose the creation of a Party Leader or leader posts.

We believe in collective leadership: empowering all our members and the wider public to participate in decision-making, working together for a just and sustainable future.

We believe that the Green Party's aims are best communicated by the many excellent speakers and elected members the Party already has. Creating a 'figurehead' Leader would not only draw attention away from other speakers and the wider Party, but would bring with it risks that the other parties in this country are all too well aware of.

The campaign organisers include elected members and both new and long-standing members with many years of experience both inside and outside the Party working for social and political change. Our common belief is that effective and long-lasting change comes through grassroots empowerment and collective leadership.

Campaign aims

Our aims are to:

• Uphold the Green Party's commitment to non-hierarchical structures, participatory democracy and consensual decision-making
• Engage in constructive debate to promote the benefits of collective leadership and the Green Party's current structure of gender balanced Principal Speakers
• Work to defeat any motions to create Leader positions in the Green Party of England and Wales

Why Green Empowerment?

The Green Empowerment Cmpaign takes its name from the Empowerment section of the Party's Philosophical Basis. This forms the basis of the Green Party's position of not having a Party Leader.