Hope isn't something that just slaps you in the face one day. It's something all of us have the power to create in our own lives.

We don't need to wait for certain politicians to get their shit together. Let's sort this shit out, now. Together.

join.greenparty.org.uk

12. Even if the party of your dreams miraculously appears - you won't have wasted your time. You'll have built trust and power. You might even decide to stay!

(I'm sure the insufferable Greens will be happy to work with you regardless!)

11. If things continue as they are, we're fucked. Everyone knows this.

With the far right soaring, we haven't got the time to get this wrong. We need to be strategic - we need the left to pile into the Greens and make it the mass movement we desperately need.

10. The Green Party has one huge thing that sets it aside from all the alternatives we have – YOU CAN SHAPE IT AND MAKE IT WHAT YOU WANT.

You have both the power and responsibility to do so.

9. Genuinely – the Green Party is not perfect. No political project is. The truth is though; I rarely met those tories on bikes when I joined. I did meet lots of people like me, impatient for change, looking for the means

8. When lefties organise within the party, the Tories on Bikes start coping you!

When we started meeting independently to organise (with flat hierarchies and rotating chairs) the "old-guard" insisted on joining in.. And loved it.

Freaks!

7. BANGING ON ABOUT THE CLIMATE

Sometimes it feels like you're in a weird cult, where they're convinced of this impending crisis that's going upend organised life as we know it...

Ohh Bore-off!

6. THEY'LL PERSUADE YOU TO STAND

One of the newly elected Cllrs @nickhartleygreen.bsky.social kept on insisting I stood for parliament, even though he'd just been elected and literally everyone loves him...

Again, suspicious!

5. THEY’RE OBSESSIVELY KIND TO EACH OTHER

The part I hate the most. When I'm being as obnoxious as possible about the need to talk more about broader economic systems, they insist we go for a pint together (and end up persuading you to join the comms group or summin...)

4. TORIES ON BIKES

There’s posh people who sometimes talk about environmental stuff like it's somehow removed from an oppressive economic system... but strangely they all support mass wealth distribution and were calling out a genocide from the start...

Charlatans!

3. INTERNAL DEMOCRACY IS A STITCH-UP

Stitched-up so tight that new members have the same chance to propose motions and influence party policy as old members who've paid their dues for years.

Disgraceful!

2. MEETINGS ARE SHIT

Like, nearly as bad as the Labour meetings I went to for years. The weirdest bit was when we suggested changing the structure, they said "AMAZING! Why don't you coordinate them from now on??"

Suss…

1. LOCAL PARTY ESTABLISHMENT WILL BE OUT TO GET YOU

And when I say, "out to get you", I mean desperately trying to make you take on important responsibilities within the party – (they're often vacant and long-time members are largely thrilled to see new faces...)
Weirdos!