A small anti-motion bloc could not beat Zionism is Racism openly, so after conference pushed it up the agenda, they ran down the clock instead. Right, so safe to safe to say matters didn’t quite go our way at Green Party Spring Conference yesterday, but not for the reasons being widely propagated either, that the Greens are clearly just another liberal party that will allow Zionism to persist, that we failed because that’s the kind of party we are and whether the membership has grown or not, that won’t change, with a new leader that won’t change, but actually Polanski is largely irrelevant, because members make policy in the Greens and that growing membership did make itself known, because we had the Zionists running scared, we had them beaten in several votes in relation to getting Zionism declared racism within the party, which is why they had to resort to procedure and running down the clock to finally stop us getting to the big vote, it was the only tool they had left after we’d dismantled ever other attempt to derail it during the day’s proceedings before that. The first attempt of theirs was to try and get this motion called out of order. That failed. We came back with a move to get the motion moved up the running order, from E12, the 12th non organisational policy motion to be heard in other words, to E03, up 9 places, higher up the running order. We won that. It became E03. The clock got run down before E03 could be heard though. Conference shut before the vote happened, stalling tactics, such as time wasting almost concurrent votes of no confidence in the chair for the weakest possible reasons being the main one and so the clock ended up finishing what the direct blocking attempts earlier in the day could not. Anybody calling what happened yesterday a routine procedural outcome is taking the piss. If opponents thought they could beat the motion in the open, they would have let it reach the floor. If they had the numbers, they could have walked out leaving the plenary session inquorate and unable to continue business. They didn’t have them. What they had was procedure.