Tameside Green Party - As bad as Trigger Me Timbers?
Shortly before the 2022 local elections Tameside Green Party posted on their Facebook page that one of their candidates had raised over £2600 for the local hospice. Whilst the Just Giving page shows that the candidate in question actually raised less than £250 including gift aid donations. Tameside Green Party subsequently removed the post from their social media but have never offered any form of explanation or apology for posting misinformation about a candidate, in the run up to an election. The candidate's husband who also stood as a candidate in the 2022 election, doubled down on the false statement and stated on social media that his wife had personally raised over £2600 When someone pointed out the amount mentioned on the Just Giving page, they were then publicly insulted by this candidate on social media, and when people complained to the leader of the Tameside Green Party about this, their complaints were completely ignored, even though at the time he was a local councillor in the ward where the complainants lived
Key members from Tameside Green Party received £500 funding from a local charity to set up a junior litter picking group to encourage children to become more active and to hold upcycling sessions. They pledged to hold six sessions on a weekly basis. The first litter picking session was held in March 2022, two other litter picking sessions were held later that year. The next litter picking session took place in March 2023 and the next and most recent litter picking session took place in Autumn 2024. During 2022 attempts were made to explain the irregular schedule of the sessions, due to volunteers' illness, which explains why individual sessions were postponed by a week or a month, which is perfectly reasonable However, the sessions now appear to have stretched out to only taking place every eighteen months, instead of weekly and no explanation has been made as to why the schedule has slipped, and there has been no explanation offered whatsoever. Looking at their election literature you would think it was a passion project for the organisers and the project held great potential. Unfortunately the project delivery seems lacklustre The upcycling sessions also seem to have been placed on the back burner as the only upcycling that appears to have happened during the sessions is that during the Autumn 2024 litter pick, they collected leaves to be made out of mulch.
Tameside Green Party have also failed to explain if safeguarding was considered when they chose as a candidate, someone who months earlier publicly posted on social media that someone was away on holiday, even asking for their post to be publicly shared, leading to the information being posted on groups that collectively had over 50k members. Other members of Tameside Green Party knew that this had happened, does the Green Party not believe in vetting candidates?
It seems that when the Tameside Green Party receive criticism rather than checking to see if the criticism is valid and using it to put things right and improve. They prefer instead to metaphorically shoot the messenger by posting defamatory statements about their critics' on social media. They seem to ignore that behaving in such a way could potentially incite violence within the community. They do not appear to make any attempt to fact check these slurs before reposting them, preferring to vilify rather than making any attempt to verify.
I tried corresponding with the Tameside Green Party, as I was one of the victims of a harassment and bullying campaign waged by several of their 2024 local election candidates. I complained about the false information that several of these candidates had spread about me online. Sadly, despite the Tameside Green Party's claims to have been supportive of me, no one has retracted any of the false information posted about me or offered any apology . They ignored the fact my complaint was about several members and in their response only referred to an individual, it took them several months to confirm the identity of this individual, they have never revealed why my complaints against other members and their leader were ignored. The person(s) who responded to me never revealed their identity, it is very difficult to believe that due process was followed
26. marts 2025
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