Brent Green Party released the following statement on their website on Monday:
Following the deselection of 8 Brent Labour councillors last month and ex-Labour Cllr Rajan-Seelan crossing the floor to join the Conservative Party today [actually he became an Independent], we are aware that there is some speculation about current Labour Party councillors joining the Green Party - and potentially becoming the first Green Party councillors in Brent.
We would be delighted to welcome anyone who shares our values of social justice, environmental responsibility, and community wellbeing to join a membership that has more than doubled since mid-October and continues to grow.
In this context, we think it’s important to inform everyone that joining the Green Party as an elected representative is a formal process of due diligence that may or may not result in a defection to the Green Party.
The interested party needs to express an interest in joining the Green Party - they won’t be invited to defect to the Green Party. They also need to go through an interview process with the central Green Party office.
Following this interview and a general scrutiny process, the central office will give their opinion about a possible defection and the local party will have a say in the matter as well.
We have started our selection process for May 2026 and we’ll continue to do so over the coming weeks.
13 comments:
I am hearing the chief whip and others are jumping a sinking ship to join Green!
Brent Labour in free fall. Who will take their place?
Is the Labour Chief Whip another no body simply protecting his Councillor allowances rather than his socialist principles? Is the Council ready to set up some Traffic Lights for the Council Meeting in 10 days time to copy with all the cross over activity? oops there are only 3 colours Red, Orange & Green.....
The Labour Chief Whip is a proven socialist. Your Party isn't a Party yet and is in a mess. The Greens are a Party, and are quite obviously a socialist party to the left of the current Right Wing Labour Party. Seems to be a no brainer.
Well, best join the greens now and get ajeaf of things because as Zack Polanski said, Greens want to replace labour.
The deselected Cllrs are as Socialist as the newly imposed. They wish to abandon ship to retain privilege and title. Sycophancy has back fired
LEAKED APP
Application to Join the Green Party
To: The Membership Secretary, Brent Green Party
From: Cllr Muhammed Butt (formerly Labour Leader, Brent Council)
Subject: Application for Membership: Regeneration, but make it sustainable
Dear Comrades in Compost,
After many years cultivating both concrete and controversy, I feel it is time to replant my political roots in greener soil. The Labour Party has become a bit too beige for my taste, all spreadsheets and no soul. Momentum was briefly my allotment, passionate and unruly, filled with idealists who thought revolution could be scheduled between council meetings. But the weeds of pragmatism crept back in, and I found myself yearning for something deeper, something photosynthetic.
I write, therefore, to humbly apply for membership of the Green Party of England and Wales, preferably under the “Pragmatic Eco-Socialist Municipalist” subsection. If it does not yet exist, I will happily chair it into being.
My Green Credentials
🌳 Longstanding collaboration with Martin Francis
Martin and I have spent years performing the delicate dance of constructive antagonism. He blogs, I bulldoze, and somehow a community garden appears between us. Our symbiosis proves the dialectic: regeneration and resistance can coexist. His Wembley Matters posts about me have been an essential part of my political composting process, the mulch of critique that allows real growth.
🚲 Advocate for progressive transport
I have been driven, sometimes literally, by a commitment to low-emission policy, except on days when the Civic Centre’s electric chargers were down. My ambition is for Brent to be the first London borough where you can cycle from Neasden to Willesden without fear, fumes, or potholes.
🌍 Climate reparations and anti-racist urbanism
Having watched regeneration turn into gentrification, I now vow to make future projects intersectionally green. Solar panels on every tower block. Tree-lined roads named after anti-colonial thinkers. Council composting schemes for political cynicism.
🔥 Momentum alumnus, rewilded
I was briefly in Momentum, before realising that endless meetings about process were less radical than watching moss grow, which I now consider a viable form of political praxis. Still, the experience radicalised me. I learned that socialism without sustainability is just warmed-over bureaucracy.
What I Offer the Greens
An intimate understanding of Brent’s planning labyrinth, useful when we are opposing luxury developments disguised as eco-villages.
The ability to translate “Net Zero by 2030” into a PowerPoint that does not make civil servants cry.
Decades of experience managing committees, budgets, and the fragile egos of local journalists.
And, of course, a deep, post-capitalist desire to see the borough as a living ecosystem, not a regeneration spreadsheet.
Manifesto for a Greener Butt
1. Replace regeneration zones with pollinator corridors.
2. Turn Wembley Stadium’s arch into a giant wind turbine.
3. Make Council Cabinet meetings carbon-neutral by holding them outdoors, barefoot.
4. Rename the Civic Centre the Civic Biosphere.
5. Replace the Whip system with a Mushroom Network of Horizontal Accountability.
Closing Statement
Some may say this is opportunism. I call it photosynthesis. After years in the shade of party machines, I am finally turning toward the light.
Yours in ecological solidarity and compostable stationery,
Cllr Muhammed Butt
Aspiring Green, Recovering Centrist, Friend of Martin Francis
Note too how the freeholder tower lords lost their human rights judicial review legal attempt a week ago to strike down the new leasehold reform act, however they have still created an 18 month delay to this laws being enacted (and that is the delay so far). This continued delay (until Reform has power and cancels this law), impacts 5 million leaseholders human rights ( including the flammable clad and the LPS towered) and yet is not considered newsworthy by the UK's lordly media.
Individual families and social landlords actually owning all of the new tower flats growth, will allow neighbourhood, welfare state, green, appropriate to car-free movement infrastructure major investments inside and for the population massive growth zones. Real change rather than the same old single freehold speculator tower owner feudal abusive of tenants model remaining as the fix.
A good growth/ bad growth fork in the road has been reached. Labour needs to assert and not be the party of the landed Lords and global speculators.
How dare you make fun of Councillor Butt. This is a man of principle, a true Socialist who joined the Corbyn supporting Momentum to pursue the socialist revolution in Brent. To even suggest that he would consider joining the wishy washy Greens is pure slander. He may have been betrayed by Tory defector Councillor Rajan-Seelan but I can assure you that he will lead Labour to victory again in 2026 just like General Custer led the 7th US Cavalry to a famous victory at Little Bighorn.
Dawn Butler may be considering defecting:
Based on using Electoral Calculus election predictor, the Greens would gain 47 seats (total 51):
🟢 Barking (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Birkenhead (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Brent East (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Brighton Kemptpwn and Peacehaven (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Bristol East (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Bristol North East (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Bristol North West (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Bristol South (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Cambridge (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Cardiff South and Penarth (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Ealing Central and Acton (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Ealing North (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Ealing Southall (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Edmonton and Winchmore Hill (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Gorton and Denton (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Hackney South and Shoreditch (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Hampstead and Highgate (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Harrow West (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Holborn and St Pancras (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Huddersfield (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Islington South and Finsbury (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Leeds Central and Headingley (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Leeds North East (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Leeds South (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Leicester East (Gain from Con)
🟢 Lewisham North (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Leyton and Wanstead (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Liverpool Riverside (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Liverpool Wavertree (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Luton North (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Manchester Central (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Manchester Rusholme (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Manchester Withington (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Norwich South (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Nottingham East (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Oxford East (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Poplar and Limehouse (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Sheffield Central (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Sheffield Heeley (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Southgate and Wood Green (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Stratford and Bow (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Tottenham (Gain from Lab)
🟢 Walthamstow (Gain from Lab)
🟢 West Ham and Beckton (Gain from Lab)
Greens would not be so stupid as to accept her. In any case she would never pass the interview.
Obviously waiting for the November Council Meeting to make most impact and greatest publicity. As the Chief Whip within Labour still able to gather useful intelligence and continue to collect his special responsibility allowance. The man is no fool - not something you can say about the rest of the Brent Labour Party.
Do Greens have a strong candidate to challenge her though? Is there a a Green Sarah Teather?
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