Photographs of the Green Party candidates
The Green Party candidates: information, comment, criticism
David Willington, Stocksbridge and Upper Don
- more information / comment
Andy Davies, Walkley - more information /
comment
Maia Salman-Lord, City - more information / comment
Richard Tinsley, Hillsborough - more information / comment
Tessa Lupton, Ecclesall - votes only
John Ronan, Fulwood - more information / comment
Lynsey Angell, Nether Edge - votes only
Dylan Lewis-Creser, Crookes and
Crosspool
Ruth Abbey, Manor Castle - more information / comment
*Malek Haybe, Broomhill and Sharrow Vale
Luke Hunt, Richmond - more information / comment
Hannah Nicklin, Woodhouse - more information / comment
Billie Turner, Park and Arbourthorne - votes only
Tom Atkin-Withers, Graves Park - votes only
*Marieanne Elliot, Gleadless Valley
Alan Yearsley, Birley - more information / comment
Gill Black, Dore and Totley - votes only
Stewart Kemp, Kim Perry, Beighton - votes only
Jonathan Bagley, Beauchief and Greenhill
Julie White, Mosborough - more information / comment
Kathy Aston, West Ecclesfield - more information / comment
Rosie Trevillion, East Ecclesfield
Mustafa Ahmed, Burngreave
Mohammed Zayed Al-Mahfuz, Darnall
(1) The entries in the section below Green Party candidates: information, comments and criticisms give the results for the candidate in previous elections, if any, and in all cases a space for the result in the 2026 election.
(2) In some cases, further information, comments and questions are included or will be included, amounting to a profile in a few cases. These are marked with 'more information' / comment' in the list below. This part of the page is at a very early stage.
(3) Some names in the list have 'Votes only' appended. I've decided not to provide critical or other information concerning these people for varying reasons and this situation continues after the election results. In the case of other names, further information, comments and questions will be added after the election in some cases - in all cases when the candidate has been elected as a councillor.
(4) Names with neither annotation: decision still to be made as to the course of action.
Eamonn Ward, Election Agent. A prima facie case of libel?
Supplementary: Eamonn Ward, ex-candidate
Supplementary: the case of Alison Teal
Background information 3: High rankings in Google. Extinction rebellion.
Background information: a very critical profile, of Mark Berry, a critic who hates being criticized
In this column, a list of Green Party candidates for election, Sheffield 2026, with names of Wards.
In every entry, I include previous election results, if any: the number of votes received by the candidate and the result, elected or not. David Willington (Stocksbridge and Upper Don) and Julie White (Mosborough) are candidates with very extensive experience in previous elections (they have already contested 6 election each) but have never been elected. Andy Davies (Walkley) has contested a parliamentary constituency, but not successfully.
The entry for each candidate includes space for information which will be available after the election of May 7: number of votes received by the candidate and the result, elected or not.
Below, information / comment on some of the names highlighted.
The material here will be revised and extended and more material on the candidates will be added, but not in the case of candidates who are already councillors, seeking re-election. The full list of candidates for the 2026 election is provided in convenient form on the Home Page.
The material on this page will not be deleted after the election results have been announced, for various reasons. One reason is that candidates who don't succeed in an election very often have the chance to contest a seat in a different ward. Most of the material on this page will remain in place, for the long term.
After the election of 7 May, candidates who have been successful - some of them may be councillors for the first time, some of them already councillors - will have new entries on the page Don't vote for the Green Party. Don't donate to the Green Party, again, taking the form of information, profiles, comments, questions. The exceptions: any names in the list above in the category of 'Votes only.' In this case, no additional information, critical or other, will be added. There are already profiles of Shefield Green Party councillors on that page but the profiles are from years ago and all of them are in need of revision and extension. Some existing councillors already have material on the page Shambolic Sheffield. Material on some newly elected councillors will be added to the page.
It can be expected that once a candidate becomes elected councillor for the first time, background information and news information will become available in greater quantity. This isn't to say that people unsuccessful in this particular election will be left in obscurity. I may well provide a great deal of information and comment in some cases.
When candidates are elected, they will be provided with email addresses. This will solve a problem which applies to most of the candidates, the difficulty of communicating to bring to their attention material, mostly critical.
There's information about removal of profiles and other material on the page About this site. As in the case of many other pages, this material is in need of revision and extension. I don't leave pages in place if they are clearly inadequate. I believe that none of the pages of the site are in this category.
For many, many years, I've had a policy of not publishing adverse, very critical material concerning people I know have faced critical difficulties or for some other reasons - unless the disadvantages of withholding publication outweigh the advantages of publishing. Even if I feel I've a great deal to gain by publishing, if the person is in a very bad way, then I won't publish.
For most of the time that this site has been in existence, I had a policy of treating all emails sent to me as confidential. People were able to take issue with anything published on the site without any chance of their comments reaching the public domain, unless they decided to put their comments into the public domain.
This is still the case in the vast majority of cases, but a fairly recent development is the publication on the site of emails or extracts from emails. In the case of these particular issues, to do with Sheffield Green Party candidates for election on 7 May, I make it clear that anyone in the list of candidates for the election who would like to contact me by email won't have the content of their emails made public in the period leading up to the election. After 7 May, some will still have emails kept confidential and in other cases, emails may be disclosed. I wouldn't expect anybody to email me, but the offer is there, if they feel inclined.
If people aren't willing to disclose an email address, I can understand the reasons. People can contact me by phone, withholding their number, if they want to. My mobile phone number is 07301785530. Again, whatever the nature of the caller's conversation, the caller is free to disclose it but I won't. I'll observe strict confidentiality, unless the caller doesn't mind whether the conversation is confidential or not. This is my policy until 7 May, at least.
I use a landline but hardly ever use the mobile phone, which is very basic (no internet access), cheap and cheerful, or not so cheerful, but the phone is capable of receiving calls and messages. Again, I don't expect in the least that any candidates will decide to contact me.
I write at a time when I've been finding out more about some of the candidates and have already obtained plentiful material - but the profiles / comments sections haven't been written and published on this page as yet. It may be that one or more candidates contact me after I begin putting the material in place here, but I doubt if any candidates will want to contact me even then.
Above, Andy Davies, candidate for the Walkley ward.
Photographs of Green Party candidates to illustrate this page would make the page more varied - but images have much less importance for me than argument and evidence. I observe copyright, and don't use published images which are in copyright. The law allows photographs - and filming - of people with practically no restrictions. I restrict my own activities - for example, no photographs of children. Attendance at a single Green Party event might well give me many suitable photographs. I took this photograph of Andy Davies, the Walkley candidate, after correcting the misapprehension of another party worker, name unknown. He had no idea that photography of this kind was allowed, legal. For the time being, I'm dependent upon links to other sites - mainly Green Party sites - which illustrate the text with photographs. I include a link to a photograph which shows some candidates for this election.
Below, links to Green Party Website pages which provide images of people and events. This is a small selection:
The second image on the page
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sheffield-green-party-elections-2026
shows assorted Sheffield Green Party functionaries, although quite a number are missing. These people were standing outside Sheffield Town Hall, the place where Councillor Alexi Dimond delivered his shockingly mindless speech. More information on the page Don't vote for the Green Party. Don't donate to the Green Party. He can be seen in the photograph on back row at far left. In the front row are two candidates for election, preparing to launch themselves into competitive political life, with its possible or inevitable exposure to publicity in the public domain, good and bad publicity.
On the front row far left is Richard Tinsley, candidate for the Hillsborough Ward. On the far right is Maia Salman-Lord (City.) In the centre of the middle row is Andy Davies (Walkley). In my experience, all the elected Green Party Councillors are experienced evaders of awkward questions but none of them can be sure that this situation will continue. Towards the centre of the front row is the Leader-with-no-leadership-qualities-whatsoever, Zak Polanski.
The second image on the page
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/news/2025/three-parties-lead-sheffield-city-council-third-year
shows other leaders. The least able by far - as I see it - is Angela Argenzio. I knew her well. Toby Mallinson is someone I also knew well. Over a long period of time (20 years in my case) we were members of Sheffield Amnesty International. For most of that time, I was the Death Penalty Co-ordinator for the group, although I worked on very many other issues. Toby Mallinson is more obviously fanatical than Angela Argenzio but she has no shortage of views I find dismaying and harmful.
The photograph shows, in the middle, the Leader of Sheffield City Council, Tom Hunt, one of the Councillors for the Ward where I live. To the right is the Leader of the Sheffield Liberal Democrat party. These three are established in an arrangement which could be called a political necessity but one which has serious disadvantages. The Labour Party has the greatest number of Councillors but no party has an absolute majority.
I regard the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats as belonging to a different category completely from the Green Party. I'm critical of various policies of the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats and many people with positions in the parties, but they have important strengths - unlike the Green Party. I've no need to specify and explain the weaknesses of the Green Party because the site already contains so much evidence.
The Green Party in Sheffield has an influence out of all proportion to its electoral results and its councillors. Sheffield Green Party is discredited - and its Councillors are discredited. The same applies to the national level.
The page
https://sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/council-election-2022/eamonn-ward/
shows Eamonn Ward, a prominent (and negligible) supporter of Sheffield Green Party. He's holding a sign 'SHEFFIELD ZERO CARBON 2030.' Success has eluded him in the elections he's conducted as the Green Party candidate.for various wards, Darnall, Firth Park and Richmond. In the election of 2016 he received 116 votes, in 2019 he received 181 votes, tried again in 2021 and received no less than 277 votes. In 2022 he received 214 votes, in 2023 173 votes but in 2024 the astonishing number of 438 votes, despite his obvious limitations. Does he confine his reading to Green Party publications? I don't think for one moment that he has the wide ranging background knowledge needed to arrive at a fair-minded assessment of the Net-Zero-by-2030 issues, which are very, very complex. The difficulties of achieving this result over such a short time-scale are formidable. In fact, the chance of achieving Net Zero by then are surely non-existent.
David Willington has a long record of competing in elections and failing in elections. It's extraordinary that he's been given the chance to prove himself yet again. This documentation gives only the year and the number of votes cast. The party has stayed the same, the Green Party, and the Ward has stayed the same, Stocksbridge and Upper Don and the result has stayed the same: not elected.
2018 election 409 votes
2019 election 596 votes
2021 election 596 votes
2022 election 733 votes
2023 election 390 votes
2024 election 607 votes
A long profile of David Willington is in preparation.
Result for the 2026 election:
Andy Davies took part in the parliamentary election of 4 July 2024 for the Penistone and Stocksbridge constituency. He gained 2,044 votes, 4.6% of the total votes cast.
An election address written by Andy Davies (or some Green Party functionaries) and delivered to addresses in Walkley - all or most of them, presumably - is grossly misleading and economical with the truth. For example, he has the audacity to make this claim:
'As a Green, Andy is independently minded. Unlike Labour councillors, Greens are not told how to vote and put the community first.'
The Green Party is in the grip of dogma - of multiple dogmas. If Andy Davies ever begins to doubt that biological men who declare that they are women are truly women, he will be suspended in no time at all. If Andy Davies ever begins to doubt that Israel is really the greatest threat to the world, he will find himself instantly disowned.
A much longer profile of Andy Davies is in preparation.
Result for the 2026 election:
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2024 election (Walkley) 1782 votes
2023 election (Fulwood) 752 votes
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2023 election 654 votes
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2024 election 339 votes
2023 election 304 votes
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2024 election 486 votes
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2024 election 1043 votes
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2024 election 308 votes
2023 election 344 votes
2022 election 296 votes
Comments on Alan Yearsley are in preparation.
Result for the 2026 election:
2024 election 574 votes
2023 election 454 votes
2022 election 876 votes
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Julie White's election results:
2024 150 votes
2023 105 votes
2022 235 votes
2021 220 votes
2019 225 votes
2018 153 votes
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2024 election 288 votes
2023 election 227 votes
2022 election 295 votes
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2024 election 271 votes
2023 election 263 votes
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For convenience, this is the material which I was referring to in the second email and originally located in the column to the left. It has simply been moved from the let hand column to a new location here: in the left hand column I was referring to.
Recent activities (followed by 'future activities')
This section was written on 15 April, 2026. The photographs [above the text, in the left hand column] were taken in two sessions, the more recent session on 14 April. I'm happy with the results. Yesterday, I received an email requesting removal of a photograph which I'd published in the section above requesting removal of a photograph, giving reasons. I accepted the reasons and removed the photograph very quickly, but I'm sure there was nothing shocking about the photograph. I could have argued a case for retention of the photograph. I won't be using the email address to contact the sender of the email at any time and I've respected the principles of confidentiality which I follow.
There's nothing dramatic or difficult about removal of photographs from this section, photographs already published or photographs which are published in future, but I obviously have limits (restriction) which would make it impossible to remove photographs in some cases.
Requests for removal of photographs / comments on this page or other pages / criticism of the material I include should be addressed to
or by phoning me at 07301785530 (I point out elsewhere that the phone is subject to faults and until I get round to repacing the phone or having it repaired, there may be difficulties in contacting me by this method. Any callers can conceal their own number. I'll keep emails sent to me and calls made to me confidential, at least until May 7 and in most cases beyond that date, indefinitely. Any emailers or callers are free to act as they wish, provided they don't make threats which are clearly illegal.
As I make clear on this page, I take the view that publication should involve restriction in some ways. In this case, the restriction applies to me. I won't publish text or photographic material if I find that the person concerned is 'having a hard time' or belongs to certain groups - one example would be mothers with young children. There can be complexities which constitute exceptions, but this is the rule I follow.
The photographic sessions have been very constructive, for me at least. Yesterday, I had a very interesting talk with someone who had seen me taking photographs and wanted to find out more. This person shared my views of the Green Party.
Whilst taking photographs at another property, the door opened and a person with very different views appeared and obviously wasn't in the least pleased to find me there. This was a property with no Green Party poster in the window or on a board but with a pro-Palestinian poster. The photographs I took at this property haven't been used in this section or anywhere else in the site. If the person I spoke to had wanted to discuss the issues, to oppose my views, then I would have been happy to listen - and to give a response.
I don't know where any Green Party Councillors or Candidates live and have no wish to find out. I can recognize the Green Party Councillors and some of the Green Party Candidates as online photographs are readily available, but if, hypothetically, I found that I was photographing or filming a property and a Councillor or Candidate emerged from the property or was outside the property, I would make no use of an opportunity to debate, comment, challenge or publicize an address. If I encountered Councillor Alexi Dimond, Tobias Mallinson, Angela Argenzio, Peter Gilbert, or any other Councillor, Candidate David Willington, Andy Davies, Hannah Nicklin, Alan Yearsley or any other Candidate, I would respect their privacy. The one address which I can link with a Green Party name is the address of Eamonn Ward, whose address is easily available. I don't give the address anywhere on the site or anywhere else for that matter. In all these cases, I confine myself to legitimate online criticism, sometimes hard-hitting criticism (devoid of all implications of physical attack, it goes without saying), sometimes milder criticism.
The people criticized are free to respond to the criticism and free not to respond in any way.
I would urge the Green Party to reject the tactics so often used by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign - holding aggressive and intimidating demonstrations outside the offices or homes of MP's and sometimes, I believe, Councillors. My view is that the Green Party's endorsement of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign is a serious mistake. It's also my view that endorsement of the Green Party is a serious mistake. I have no respect for either organization. I'd use stronger language. I have contempt for both organizations but strongly believe that methods shouldn't be used against them which are similar to their abysmal level.
There are far
too many
extremists in
the Green Party
and many more in
the Palestine
Solidarity
Campaign and my
view is that
strong action is
needed to combat
such people,
including
vigorous police
action,
including
restraint and
arrest when
necessary. I've
personal
experience of
the ignorance
and cynical
opportunism of
these people.
Their claims to
be merely
exercising the
right to free
speech are
hollow. A
society gives
way to such
people and
allows them to
do exactly what
they want risks
being undermined
or worse, much
worse. A society
has to cater to
the needs of
people who are
very different,
including the
innumerable
responsible,
hard-working
people. It can't
afford to give
too much time
and resources to
people who want
to destroy the
society.
Best Wishes,
Paul Hurt
From the Home Page:
The Election Agent is the person
responsible in law for the entire conduct of a candidate's (or
candidates') campaign. If laws are broken during the campaign,
the agent is responsible: libel and copyright laws are the most
likely categories of laws broken. The agent during this
Sheffield Green Party campaign is Eamonn Ward. He sent me an
email on 17/04/2026. He made accusations which I am vigorously
contesting. I can show that they are completely false. (Is there
a prima facie case of libel here?) He wrote,
'This e-mail and the links to your websites
[correction: I only have one website and I know of no links from
external sources to any material on Green Party campaigning and
candidacy and related issues from the time that the material was
posted to the present] are being shared with South Yorkshire
Police as a personal safety issue as you have clearly been
visiting candidates at their home addresses, taking pictures of
where they live and sharing them online.'
Taking a photograph of a
building is a legitimate action, freely permitted by law (unless
for use in planning terrorist action and a small number of other
circumstances, none of them of any relevance here.) At the time
I received Eamonn Ward's email, I had undertaken two tours on
foot of quite a large area of Sheffield. I simply set off with my
camera and took photographs of any properties I saw which had
Green Party posters or placards. I didn't see or speak to any
people living in the houses with Green Party publicity. I had no
knowledge at all concerning any of the people living in the
houses. I have absolutely no knowledge of the addresses of Green
Party candidates or other members, with one exception. I do know
the address of Eamonn Ward, since it appears on the posters and
placards, a legal requirement. There was nothing that justified
the intervention of the police. He has manufactured claims which
have wasted police time. He needs to present any evidence he has
for these claims. His behaviour has been poor, well below the
standard to be expected.
Images would enhance the pages
where I comment on Green Party councillors and candidates. I
observe copyright and before I can use photographs of
councillors and candidates, I have to take them myself.
Photographs of properties with Green Party posters and placards
are much easier to take than illustrative photographs of Green
Party members. The main area for display of these images is the
Home Page, which is intended to be a carefully constructed
graphic design. I think that images of ordinary houses form an
effective contrast with the many images of larger buildings with
architectural significance. The massed images form an effective
pattern, I think. Very many pages of the site - including ones
with literary and conceptual content - have no images at all.
The pages with images serve important purposes.They increase the
variety of the site but do much more than that.
https://sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/council-election-2022/eamonn-ward/
shows Eamonn Ward, a prominent (though, in my view, negligible) supporter of Sheffield Green Party. He's holding a sign 'SHEFFIELD ZERO CARBON 2030.'
Success has eluded him in all the elections he's conducted as the Green Party candidate.for the Darnall Ward.
2016, 116 votes
2019, 181 votes
2022, 214 votes
2023, 173 votes.
Does he confine his reading to Green Party publications? I don't think for one moment that he has the wide ranging background knowledge needed to arrive at a fair-minded assessment of the Net-Zero-by-2030 issues, which are very, very complex. The difficulties of achieving this result over such a short time-scale are formidable. In fact, the chance of achieving Net Zero by then are surely non-existent.
From the site
.https://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/ward/16414/
'To keep global warming to no more than 1.5°C – as called for in the Paris Agreement – emissions need to be reduced by 45% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.'
These objectives, much more modest than the impossible objective of 'Net Zero by 2030' are more realistic but almost certainly unachievable in themselves.
This is a short extract which lists some of the difficulties:
I see no sign that Sheffield Green Party has the expertise, the background knowledge (or the basic common sense and sense of realities) to provide reliable and trustworthy evidence for so many of its claims - or the majority of its claims.
Alison Teal is one of a large number of former Green Party members who seem to me to have legitimate reasons for complaint against the Green Party. The Alison Teal case gives disturbing insights into Green Party procedure. Further information available on the Website 'Greens in Exile,'
But horrible treatment by the Green Party is no guarantee of goodness, wisdom, political skills, adequate knowledge, good sense, freedom from illusion, adult values in the person who has been horribly treated - and 'horrible treatment' needs to be put in context. It can't possibly be compared with the victims of Nazism, such as the millions who died in extermination camps, concentration camps and at the hands of the Nazi mobile execution squads.
Alison Teal, Green campaigner with a strong interest in trees (I've a strong interest in trees too), is also a political ignoramus, with grossly deficient knowledge of the realities of Israeli-Palestinian issues. She's a willing accomplice of the unspeakable Palestine Solidarity Campaign, with no trace of independent and unbiased views.
The 'Greens in Exile' site includes the rational and interesting testimony of Deborah Fink, another ex-Green Party member, ejected from the party.
Her general behaviour has often been anything but rational and interesting - pathetic. A video which shows her in action, after she had been ejected for her childishness and ridiculous behaviour at the Sadler's Wells theatre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIg3v6pxeQ
She wasn't ejected from the Green Party for her childishness and ridiculous behaviour - if all the childish and ridiculous people in the Green Party were expelled, the membership would be only a fraction of its size. She was expelled for doctrinal reasons.
Deborah Fink posted this comment on an anti-Zionist weblog: 'Israel does not deserve to be called ‘The Jewish state.’ It should be called ‘The Satanic state.'
Compare this statement with the words of a Supreme Leader of Iran for a time, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who described Israel as satanic and cancerous and praised the Lebanese group Hezbollah for its jihad against Israel.
The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, predicted that Muslims would uproot “satanic powers” and reaffirmed his prediction that the Jewish state will soon be wiped off the map, the Agence France-Presse news agency reported.
"I must announce that the Zionist regime (Israel), with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene," Ahmadinejad said.
"Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started," he stated.
She's 'Deborah Fink (soprano)' in the list of signatories protesting against a concert given by an Israeli group At the protest,. Deborah Cretin-Fink can be heard singing, to the tune of 'Happy birthday to you,' these words, 'Happy birthday to you, I'm ashamed I'm a jew.' When some policemen got hold of her in the ensuing disturbance, she called them 'fascist.' Tired, stale, predictable.
To emphasize some essential differences between British policing and fascist policing, I quote something I wrote in connection with Seamus Heaney's misuse of the word 'interrogation:' Seamus Heaney had been stopped at a road-block during The Troubles in Northern Ireland and asked a few mild questions, although in this case by soldiers of the British army rather than the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
'The phrase in the poem 'everything is pure interrogation' can only impress as pure sound, devoid of moral content and almost devoid of meaning. So far from being pure and of one kind, interrogations are of the most varied kinds, from the kind common in totalitarian countries which remove finger-nails, smash bones, dislocate joints, break jaws, leave the victim blinded or with face unrecongnizable, with health ruined for life, the kind of interrogation conducted by the Nazi Klaus Barbie, smashing vertebrae with his spiked ball on the end of a chain - to this far less stressful kind of 'interrogation,' amounting to a few questions and a few searching looks by the security forces, with perhaps a search of the car to find out if there's any explosive there which might smash the bones of innocent victims, break their jaws, leave the victim blinded or with face unrecognizable, health ruined for life, or dead.
'Anyone routinely questioned for a very short time, like innumerable other people, whether on the roads of Northern Ireland during the Troubles or now at the airports of North America, Europe and other places, in order to prevent bombings, who complains of a 'quiver in the self' or of feeling 'subjugated,' let alone 'gross intrusion' or 'sexual violation' should have their histrionics under better control.'
Deborah Fink should have her histrionics under better control. The distinction between liberal democracies which sometimes have recourse to drastic action to protect themselves (eg Britain during the Second World War, and Israel protecting itself against terrorism) and totalitarian or authoritarian regimes (eg Syria, Iran) is basic. Deborah Fink has next to no understanding of the difference.
This is what Alison Teal has to say about her experiences:
'In August [2022] I stood to be the next PPC for Sheffield Central and was selected as the candidate in September 2022.
The press launch for the selected PPC was intended to take place a couple of days after the votes were tallied but Natalie Bennett refused to attend and the event was cancelled. The Sheffield Green Party never put out a press release about my selection. On 10th October five Green councillors: Martin Phipps, Brian Holmshaw, Alexi Diamond, Angela Argenzio and Ruth Mersereau tweeted: “I am a member of Sheffield Green Party and I support trans rights. I will not campaign for any candidate who discriminates against trans people”. This was perceived as an allegation that I discriminate against trans people, which I do not, however, my former colleagues made this deeply distressing claim and it was widely understood to be about me.
“I received a formal complaint from the Green Party on 20th October from Cllr Martin Phipps alleging that I had made transphobic tweets. On 25th October I was told by the party that GPRC had imposed a No-Fault Suspension on me but eight months passed before I was given a reason why. The reasons were just as spurious as the complaint. “
'The facts are that none of my tweets are transphobic and I have never discriminated against a transgender person. I have been expressing concern about the impact of gender identity ideology since 2017, starting with a critique of Self-ID and the potential unintended consequences this practice could have (illustrated by the incident of double rapist, self-identifying woman Isla Bryson being sent to a women’s prison in Scotland).
'Multiple failures in the disciplinary and governance process, mostly the result of the flagrant practices of GPRC, led to the continuation of my NFS through to the time that the next GE was called on 22nd May 2024. Because of my NFS status, I could not be removed, according to the constitution, by any means other than a deselection process. This did not take place. However, GPRC saw fit to tell the Sheffield Green Party to go ahead and select a new candidate for Sheffield Central.
'I learned about the process of selecting a new candidate from a member emailing me to ask if I minded them standing! No one had the courtesy to formally tell me this decision had been made. I was devastated. I picketed the meeting with friends and supporters but the hustings went ahead and Angela Argenzio, one of the councillors who smeared my reputation, was selected by fewer than 50 votes.
'After working very hard for the party over the past ten years it was extremely difficult to come to terms with how disrespectfully I was being treated. I made the painful decision to resign for the sake of my dignity and with the encouragement of many people I submitted my nomination papers to stand as an Independent candidate on 7th June 2024.
'Miscarriages of justice have continued in my name with 15 members of the Green Party being accused of campaigning for me who have now been expelled unconstitutionally by GPRC.
The body intended to protect the reputation of the Green Party, GPRC, continues to be responsible for bringing the party into disrepute by its own malicious actions.
' I have suffered vexatious complaints from six named complainants and some anonymous, since 2021. The disciplinary system has created an opportunity for members with strong opinions on gender identity ideology to harass and bully members who understand the vital importance of women’s sex-based rights and also child safeguarding and the way that proposed Self-ID can negatively impact women and children.'
What of the electorate? Will Sheffield Green Party, will the national Green Party, apply the same censorious ideology to the members of the electorate - the majority - who don't take the view that trans issues are more important than furthering the welfare of mothers, fathers, children? Green Party Councillor Brian Holmshaw is chair of the Sheffield City Council Allotment Advisory Board.
Does Brian Holmshaw regard issues to do with trans people as relevant to his allotment duties, or are such matters irrelevant? Can he explain. Does he take a censorious attitude to allotment
tenants who don't share his views on trans issues? The many people who don't share his view can't be evicted. In the illusory, deluded ideal world imagined by Green Party People there will be no aggression between nation states, if only they will adopt the Green Party Peace through Pacifism Panacea. If the Green Party is so successful in local and national elections that it can take and enforce decisions free from tiresome contrary views and other parties - a One-Party Green Party administration, then it will be free to evict people from allotments who have their doubts about the Trans Movement.
Revd Lu Skerratt-Love, who makes an appearance on various pages of the site, as a founder-member of the Garden Church near to my allotments and as principal instigator of action against me by South Yorkshire Police. Lu Skerratt-Love was based in Sheffield at the time but moved to Liverpool and was ordained there.
This is a short extract from a sermon preached by Lu Skerratt-Love at Liverpool Cathedral:
'May we encourage our [trans] siblings to ... raise their voices high so even the stones of our government buildings want to shout aloud for trans rights!'
Lu Skerratt-Love may be a member of the Green Party or may not be. I've no information about that, but the opinion of Lu Skerratt-Love, biologically male but affirming 'she' and 'they as
pronouns, about the supremacy of trans rights amounts to a rejection of reality or one aspect of reality - there's absolutely no prospect of a world where public buildings are converted into
promoters of 'trans rights.' To imagine that parenthood and bringing up children are far less important than 'trans rights' is a travesty. Lu Skerratt-Love, Sheffield Green Party, the national
Green Party, are telling people what to think again and again, attempting to suppress any dissent again and again.
In matters to do with polemics, I'm not a beginner. This is just one example of a profile published on this site, on someone who regards himself as a 'progressive' (a word which used again and again - and misused again and again.) The profile was published a long time ago, as many of the political references will show, but is still on the site. It has been revised but not extended. I've no intention of extending it. This is a very long profile already. The subject was Dr Mark Berry, now Professor Mark Berry. At the time he was an academic at Royal Holloway, University of London and is still an academic there.
The profile can be found in my page 'Cambridge University, excellence and stupidity.' The page has material on other universities, including Oxford and Royal Holloway. The profile is at
www.linkagenet.com/themes/cambridge-university.htm#berry1
Dr Berry wasn't at all pleased to find himself profiled, it seems, and went so far as to contact the senior legal officer of Royal Holloway at the time. The legal officer sent me an email, which I had to treat as an exception to the rule that I followed for year after year - non-disclosure of emails sent to me. I think this was the only time I didn't follow the rule, on the grounds that this was an official communication which had a bearing on issues to do with freedom of expression.
The email I received was courteous, with a polite request to remove material on Dr Berry from my Website. This was a request which was out of order, which should never have been made. Many of the quotations I provided from Dr Berry's writings were deeply disturbing or otherwise in need of comment or criticism. This is my Website and I decide what appears on it. There's no material which appears now or which has been published at any time in the past which I regret including or which should be regretted. Dr Berry got nowhere, then, and the senior legal officer got nowhere. I made it clear that the material on Dr Berry would stay and it has stayed. I heard no more about the issue.
It's inconceivable that profiles of Sheffield Green Party councillors, candidates and other members, would ever be as long as the profile of Mark Berry, or a fraction of the length, but these people should realize that sometimes, my interpretation of robust free speech can be very robust. What Sheffield Green Party members, any category of members, will never have to put up with are mindless slogans and slurs with no evidence provided at all, insults and denunciations in one word or a few words. I leave that tactic to Sheffield Green Party - or rather I actively oppose that tactic. My opposition is determined and unyielding but far from inflexible. If the situation calls for flexibility, if there are very good reasons why I should be flexible, then I try to be flexible.
What I publish on this site is my decision. How Google treats the material for the specific purpose of page ranking isn't my decision, but again and again, I find that if the material I publish is full and detailed, it may well have a certain prominence in Google and the results may be very striking. If I write about a person or an organization, then the material is not only in the public domain but may have a certain prominence in the public domain. I think that these considerations have relevance or possible relevance to people who are members of Sheffield Green Party and to the organization, the Green Party. It generally takes quite a long time before material published on the internet becomes prominent from the perspective of Google ranking, unless the person or organization is already prominent. Personal obscurity is a disadvantage but is far from being a decisive disadvantage given enough time.
Publication of the images in the column to the left does me no good at all in terms of furthering Google rankings - and similarly with the images on the Home Page, which include the images to the left in smaller format. Publication of all the images on the site hasn't helped with Google rankings, with 'Search Engine Optimization.' (SEO.0This is for the reason that I don't include alt text with the images. Images with alt text do contribute to higher results in Search Engine Optimization.
Despite my relative indifference to SEO, I'm at fault in not including alt text, since alt text has other advantages. It assists users who rely upon assistive technology. In various places, I make it clear that conveying information by words is far more important to me than conveying information by images. Images have secondary importance for me. All the basic information is provided in text or sometimes symbolic form. I think that a visually impaired person can gain all the essential information from the text, and sometimes symbolism. I think that the usefulness of alt text for this purpose can be exaggerated, that the person using assistive technology isn't disadvantaged. Despite the large number of images employed, this isn't at all a site which gives great prominence to images. I'm ready to receive and take into account views which differ from mine. I'm ready to change my practice if I'm convinced. It would have the disadvantage to me that adding alt text to the images on the site would be a massive undertaking, taking up time which I don't realistically have available, and that adding alt text to future images would have a significant effect on my work on the site. This has to be taken into account.
I don't write with the intention of obtaining high rankings in Google. I write with the intention of providing content which satisfies me and which may satisfy other people. The critical content to be found on the site isn't designed to be popular but to point out deficiencies in people or organizations, as I see it. There are ways of improving the Google rankings of pages but I don't pay attention to them. Very often, I'm writing about topics which are very much minority interests but deeply satisfying to me.
As for high Google rankings, I can't complain. In fact, Google has been good to me. What is helpful to me may well not be helpful in the least to some people. In one specific case, I put the search term Lu Skerratt-Love extinction rebellion into Google very, very recently, to find what information is available on the subject. I've published material on Lu Skerratt-Love in various places on the site, but the material hasn't been detailed enough or substantial enough, given the importance of the 'issues arising.' I think that more will be needed to do justice to the issues, but the material already available on the site is certainly reflected in the existing Google rankings.
According to Google, 'the provided results do not directly establish her as a prominent leader or member of the organization Extinction Rebellion.' This is true enough. Note: 'her' is used here but as a matter of strict fact, Lu Skerratt-Love is biologically male. The results include various pages of this site in a prominent position.
If another set of search terms is put into Google, extinction rebellion St Mark's Church Lu Skerratt-Love then another set of results is returned, including this Google summary:
Extinction Rebellion Involvement: Skerratt-Love has participated in Extinction Rebellion protests, which have been noted in church documents.
In this page of results, a page of this site is currently the first in the order of results, my page 'Church Documents: faith and practice, claims and realities.' There follows a page of the St John's Church, Ranmoor, Sheffield Website, then there's another page of this site 'Church Integrity - Paul Hurt's linkage site.' This is followed by yet another page of the site, 'Church Army failures,' then a page of the Website of the Church of England newspaper, followed by a further page of this site, 'South Yorkshire Police: a knock at the door.'
Material due to be published on the site will include a discussion of Trans issues. I'll be able to show easily that the reflex action of instant name-calling' 'Transphobic!' isn't relevant here. I think - I can provide evidence - that Green Party members are often naive in committing their opinions to the internet - that they are reckless in putting material on the internet.
I make use of a program which gives ready access to pages of Websites, including Green Party Websites, from a year ago, five years ago, ten years ago or more - opinions which were recklessly published and perhaps regretted - but the Green Party isn't very good at regretting its blunders - can easily be viewed. I hope to give extracts from Green Party documents from this massive source of archived material.
I'm unable to display a Green Party poster in a front window of my house. I'm unable to display a Green Party poster-on-a-post in my front garden
(I don't have a front garden. I do have a small backyard converted into a back garden.) I can, though, provide some extra publicity for Green Party posters with this party-on-a-page. The photographs of Sheffield properties with Green Party posters are in this column.
Although I can't become a Green Party candidate myself - I don't have what it takes to be a Green Party candidate - at least I can give the candidates for election (and their election agent) some publicity here. Fully-fledged, 'successful' Sheffield-election-winning-councillors-with-rotating leaders are publicized on other pages.
There's not very much material on the national Green Party in this site. A matter for regret - there's very little publicity material on Zack Polanski [David Paulden], Charlatan-in-Chief.
This page was begun very recently and is now the newest page on the site. The content will be revised and extended. In this column
Photographs of Sheffield properties publicizing the Green Party.
Israeli society The section is included because the Green Party claims that issues to do with Israel have relevance to Sheffield people, in ways which apply to no other countries. Israel is singled out for condemnation. I claim that the material on this page and other pages, such as the page Israel, shows conclusively that the Sheffield Green Party (and the national Green Party) is deluded and deserves condemnation.
Please see also the pages
Home Page contains varied material on the Green Party
Don't vote for the Green Party. Don't donate to the Green Party includes critical material on Sheffield Green Party Councillors.
Shambolic Sheffield includes critical material on Sheffield Green Party
Animal welfare and activism will be extended to include general material on activism and protest, in issues other than animal welfare
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Future activities
I can't be certain that I can complete my planned action - I have a strong sense of the uncertainties of life - but these are my plans for action.
So far, I've reached all the areas where the properties with Green Party promotion posters and boards have been photographed on foot. I don't have a vehicle. There are many, many demands on my time - at this time of year, the land that I rent requires a great deal of work - but I intend to visit more areas on foot and take more photographs, to be added to this page.
I haven't made any tours to take photographs at weekends, for a very good reason - on weekdays, most children of school age will be at school. At weekends, they won't be at school. I've no desire to cause complications for parents with school age children who find that I've arrived to take photographs. I intend to ensure that any time I spend outside the property is the absolute minimum, unless people want to talk to me about Green Party politics or any other issues. I do have very wide interests in environmental matters. If anybody wants to talk about these, or their own environmental interests, or their general political interests, then I'll be happy to listen and to talk.
The photographs above were originally supplied without any numbers attached but now, numbers have been supplied. This will make it easy for anyone who would like a photograph removed to inform me which photograph is relevant and for me to find the photograph, before deciding if I should remove it or keep it in the public domain.
This year, I've carried out a great deal of work on portable display / presentation systems. These could be called display / presentation / protest systems, but I prefer to avoid use of the word 'protest.' I associate the word with massive, noisy, futile events, although there are many, many protests which are anything but futile - I'll refer tothem as 'principled protests.'
The display / presentation system is just one use for the system which I explain, with many images, on the Home Page of the site. The images which show its use for displays / presentations on the page make it clear that whiteboards are mounted on trolleys. I have a printer for production of coloured display materials of various sizes and these are fixed to the whiteboards not with standard magnets, which in my experience are too weak for the purpose, but with much stronger neodymium magnets. Handwritten text can also be added, of course. The 'protest materials' shown in this section of the Home Page are to do with criticism of Christian religion and have been used at protest-presentations outside various Churches. Presentations concerned with the Green Party can be readily designed and constructed. They can be used outside properties displaying 'Vote Green' posters or boards but in almost all cases won't be used for this purpose. If I decide that a presentation is called for, I now have extensions to the basic system explained on the Home Page. I have a larger whiteboard, for instance, measuring 120cm x 90cm. It wouldn't be practical to move this on foot but it's completely practical to transport it in a hired van and to use it when I think that I can justify its use. For the time being, I only have one property in mind, one which has had a poster with the slogan 'End the genocide' in the front window for a long time and which now has a Green Party board. Below, there's a short section giving some basic information about Green Party false claims concerning Israel, supplemented by more evidence on other pages.
I included in the original designs for presentation / display systems facilities for photographic / film cameras. I sometimes take film footage but never use it on this site. I use film footage only to extract still photographs. A more recent development has been the incorporation of a strong, secure and weatherproof box for storage of the cameras and for storage of other items. When the cameras aren't being use, then the box offers protection for the cameras. I'm mindful of the occasion when I was filming at a Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest in the large public space in front of Sheffield City Hall. This was at a very early stage in the protest, when there were not many pro-Palestinian protesters about. Three of them suddenly attacked me and one of them got hold of the camera. It was damaged but eventually, I was able to get it working again. I'm not deterred in the least from photographing / filming at future events.
At some pro-Palestinian events, I've been able to talk to some of the people taking part but in general, they've been incommunicative or openly hostile. Some of these people have been gay, and I've made the point that in Gaza, homosexuality / gay practice is illegal but that in Israel this isn't so. Sexual freedoms in Israel are not only permitted - the gay scene in Israel flourishes. I got nowhere by mentioning such things. These gay people had absolutely no interest in the sexual freedoms of Israeli society.
This is simply an extract from my page on Israel which gives much more material on the case for Israel. This is the summary-section, 'Israeli- Palestinian relations: the case for Israel.' It was written a few years ago but the content is still valid, although obviously, there have been changes, such as the vastly decreased power of Hamas.
Human values, humane values can sometimes only be safeguarded by harsh action, including harsh military action. This was the case during the Second World War, a conflict which was obviously more wide ranging by far. But the savagery displayed in the recent terrorist attack on Israel was as bad as any of the atrocities which took place during the Second World War. Allied forces defeated genocidal Nazi Germany not by displays of naive, utopian, superficial thinking but by tactical and strategic thinking which resulted in hard military action, including the use of bombardment.
After D day, villages, towns and cities in France, Belgium and the Netherlands were liberated by British and other allied forces. Very often, they were liberated by military action which included bombing and artillery fire and very often with civilian casualties. For example, Caen in Normandy was liberated only after being heavily bombed. About 80% of the town was devastated and 3000 civilians were killed. Around 60,000 French civilians had been killed by allied bombing by the time France was liberated. To use only ground forces was out of the question. Nazi occupied Europe could never have been liberated in this way. Anyone who claims that allied forces were 'no better than Nazis' for frequent killing of civilians is failing to take into account Nazi killings of civilians, which belonged to a different order of reality - reprisal executions, the mass executions of the Einsatzgruppen and, of course, the Holocaust, the worst set of war crimes in human history.
In extreme circumstances, to overcome fanatical opposition, the armed forces of democratic states often have no alternative but to use extreme force – but not ‘extremist force,’ the methods used by fanatics. To use slight force would be to guarantee defeat. Although technological advances have vastly increased the precision of bombing, these cannot overcome all difficulties, for example those arising in very densely populated neighbourhoods such as Gaza.
A stark fact: the families of all the terrorists killed or injured in these horrific attacks in Israel will receive large cash payments from the Palestinian Authority, which calls them ‘Martyr payments.’ The families of Palestinian terrorists killed or injured whilst committing previous acts of terrorism already receive these payments, a reward for spreading death and destruction. ‘Martyr payments’ are also made to the families of terrorists imprisoned by Israel for politically motivated violence, often lethal violence.
Basem Naim, Head of Political and International Relations for Hamas, claimed in an interview not long after the attacks on Israeli civilians that none of the people taken hostage at the time by the terrorists (obviously, he never used the word ‘terrorists’) are civilians! According to this tainted source of information, the child hostages are not civilians and neither are the children killed! This is a claim that deserves to be treated with contempt and revulsion.
He also claimed that it was an absolute necessity to attack Israel. The alternative, he said, would be ‘to die silently by malnutrition.’ Later in the interview, he claimed a Palestinian malnutrition rate of 55% He intended to present a deeply distressing picture of starving Palestinians, deprived of food by the Israelis, but he surely knew that the Palestinian malnutrition problem is obesity, not starvation. There have been a number of studies. A study of 2019 found that among adults 18 years and older, 64% of males and 69.5% of females in the Palestinian territories were overweight. Hamas has a record of using distortion, exaggeration, selectivity, general falsification, often taking grotesque forms - tactics which appeal to credulous people.
Badly needed: a deeper and wider understanding of the Palestinian society which gives such widespread support to Hamas. A clear sighted, fair-minded and comprehensive view of Palestinian society should amongst other things take into account information such as findings of the Pew Research Center. A few examples: stoning to death for adultery may not be practised in the Palestinian territories but 84% of Palestinians support the punishment. The conviction that a woman must always obey her husband is widely held, with 87% support in the Palestinian territories
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Homosexuality is still illegal in Gaza, although not in the West Bank. Homosexuality isn’t illegal in Israel, of course. The Gay scene in Israel is a very flourishing one. The Tel Aviv Gay Pride event is one of the largest in the world. As for Iran, the supporter of Hamas, this is a country in the grip of a horrific regime. Homosexuality, blasphemy, adultery and political dissidence are amongst the many offences which can be punished with the death penalty.
The findings of the Pew Research Center, a reputable polling organization, date from ten years ago. Palestinian society may have changed a great deal since then but I don’t know of any evidence that it’s been transformed, that it has become in any way a liberal, tolerant and open society. A society which is liberal, tolerant and open has to have a whole range of other strengths. Essential: alertness to forces that can damage it very severely, perhaps irreparably. A society has to be willing and able to defend itself or risk being damaged or destroyed by ruthless outside forces - with the exception of states which rely upon other states for their defence, generally mistakenly, but not in the case of very small states such as San Marino.
If, hypothetically, Palestinians were granted a state, is it likely that their relations with their neighbour Israel would be harmonious? If, hypothetically, Israel were ever to be wiped out, the new state would be very vulnerable. Its survival could never be guaranteed. It could easily be invaded by a powerful and ruthless adversary that would like to take its territory. As it is, superior Israeli military power guarantees the security of the Palestinian territories, just as the neutral Republic of Ireland was protected against German invasion by the military power of Britain and its allies during the Second World War. The protection against potential aggressors provided by Israel's superior power is a massive advantage for the Palestinians.
The practical problems now confronting Hamas were avoidable but Hamas chose not to avoid them. Hamas has the responsibility of solving , or attempting to solve, the problems it has created In fact, the problems can only be solved if Hamas is eliminated. Democratic states and organizations should do nothing which helps to save Hamas, directly or indirectly. There are many, many countries in the world facing acute problems to do with basic needs. It’s impossible to give effective help to all of them. The basic economic problem is the problem of scarcity: unlimited wants and finite resources.
Why should Hamas-conrolled Gaza be regarded as not just a deserving cause but a deserving cause which should have absolute priority? Israel and Ukraine deserve the support of the free world, not so Hamas-controlled Gaza. The international community's contribution to the reconstruction of Gaza should only be offered under the most stringent conditions.
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Hamas is a basket case and has ruined Gaza, with the support of far too many Palestinians. But in general, they don't deserve a regime as bad as Hamas. The 'they' is a generalization, of course, There are deserving and undeserving Palestinians.
If, with the aid of the horrific Iranian regime (which sentenced 51 people to be stoned to death for adultery in 2022), Palestinians in Gaza (which, incidentally, punishes homosexuality with imprisonment for up to ten years) had been able to amass a formidable force of multirole combat aircraft, then there can't be the least doubt that they would have done everything in their power to use them for the destruction of Israeli hospitals, homes and schools, as well as Israeli Defence Force positions, without the least concern for 'International Law.'. They have been able, with the aid of the horrific Iranian regime, to equip themselves with rockets and they have used them to attack Israeli civilians on many occasions in previous years and now on a much bigger scale.
The damage from Israeli counter-attacks against Gaza after these previous rocket attacks should have taught Hamas this simple lesson. If you don't want war damage in Gaza and want to protect civilians in Gaza, stop firing rockets and stop breaking ceasefires. But Hamas are very slow learners. I've no expertise in ballistics so I don't comment on the claims and counter-claims regarding the hospital in Gaza, but the claims made by Hamas aren't supported in the least by the expert opinion I've seen, including their clams of the number of casualties. Outrage in connection with the claim that Israel was responsible seems to be unaccompanied by concern for the men, women, children and babies held hostage in Gaza and those massacred in Israel.
If it wanted to, Iran, a big country, could aid the Palestinians not just by providing them with supplies but by offering them some Iranian territory for a new Palestinian homeland. Would the Palestinians be glad to go there, to live in a place free of Israeli influence? I doubt it. If the barbarity of Hamas (and the Iranian regime) is obvious to anyone with any sense, the stupidity of Hamas (and the Iranian regime) should be obvious to anyone with any sense too.
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