Dear Jenny Jones,

We, like many other Greens, were quite fond of you. As our only Peer and a former member of the London Assembly, you have been consistent in your strife for Green interests in our politics. You were very popular among the party membership and even outside of it, and for good reason. From the London Living Wage Unit, to ultra-low emissions zones, your achievements in the London Assembly were plentiful and far-reaching. Your 2012 London Mayoral campaign was historic, establishing The Green Party as London’s third party. For this, we would like to thank you.

All of that being said, we are disappointed. It is of our opinion that your actions during the European Union Referendum were nothing less than hypocritical. Here’s why:

Whilst we believe you are a credit to the House of Lords, your membership of that house always has been, and always will be, predicated by one simple fact: whilst we think that the House of Lords needs serious reform, it is far more possible to achieve that through participation than through abstention. The Green Party nominated you to your life-peerage so that you could reform the House of Lords.

We know that you disagree, but that exact argument applies also to the European Union. You would agree with us that the EU is in dire need of reform, from its actions in Greece to its creation of TTIP in the shadows. However, it is not just the U.K. that needs the EU to better. The “Greeces” of the EU, so-to-speak, need this vital reform more than anyone, and without the influence that the U.K. has in the EU, our leaving has consigned them to being at the mercy of the EU for the foreseeable. We were one of the only nations with the influence to do anything to reform the EU, and we have just thrown that away, abdicating our international reponsibility to look out for the little guy. This is the course of action that you have supported by supporting Leave. For some unknown reason however, you seem to believe that you have more ability to reform as the sole member of an ever-growing ancient stuck-in-its-ways House of Lords, than the whole of the UK does in the European Parliament. Just for direct comparison, you are one of 820 in the House of Lords, whilst the UK makes up 73 of the 751 members of European Parliament. Looking at this comparison, it seems almost nonsensical to believe you can reform the House of Lords but the UK can’t reform the European Parliament. These views appear to be mutually-exclusive, only one can be correct.

This has left some questioning if you still subscribe to the The Green Party’s view that we take part in the House of Lords only so that we can reform it, and, if you don’t, when we can expect your resignation. We did not feel that this was appropriate at first, but your actions since the result of the European Referendum, and the anger directed at you from fellow members, leaves us wondering exactly how well you can claim to represent Green Party members in the House of Lords.

Not only do you no longer represent us, you are now becoming an active and serious liability to the causes that we fight for. In an article for the Guardian less than a month before the referendum, you put forward this argument for leaving the EU:

In particular, David Cameron’s forcing through of a stronger deregulatory agenda worries me. If the EU is worth having at all (I don’t think it is, but IF it is) then it is worth having mainly because of some of its labour regulations and environmental regulations. But those are exactly what rightwingers such as Cameron and George Osborne have in their sights

This quote amounts to an absurd claim that we should leave behind the European Union and it’s environmental protections just in case Cameron & Co weaken those very protections with future reform that there is little-to-no evidence is even on the cards. That is beyond ludicrous: Cameron’s desire to weaken environmental regulations in the United Kingdom is the very reason that we needed the EU now more than ever.

You were never going to find many allies within our party when fighting for Brexit- you knew that from the getgo. Polls (including Thursday’s) have consistently shown The Green Party to be the most europhile party in the country, moreso than Labour, the SNP, or even the Liberal Democrats. Despite this lack of support, The Green Party does not have whips, nor do we censor the views of our members and so you had every right to back a different vision for the U.K. than the rest of the party. However, what you do not have the right to do, is to actively harm the causes that the party fight for, as your absurd argument in the Guardian did. Nor do you have the right to talk down various Greens, including many Young Greens, who have been speaking out against your behaviour. For example, on Sunday night, you retweeted a tweet from Julia Hartley-Brewer, claiming that Vote Leave had no responsibility to have a post-Brexit plan.

Ignoring the sheer absurdity of this claim and the embarrassment you bring to yourself and the party by retweeting it, lets look at who tweeted it in the first place. Julia Hartley-Brewer is the very same person who shouted down Owen Jones’ attempt to point out the homophobia of the Orlando attacks. Have you lost all allies on the left that you’ve taken to parotting the views of the offensive and bigoted right wing? In response to some valid criticism of this from a Young Green, you sent this tweet:

Whilst Caroline is very right that now is not the time for in-fighting, we cannot stand by while you belittle members of the party by claiming their critcism to be nothing but “moaning”. Besides, it is beyond hypocritical to hide behind Caroline’s words when in the very same statement Caroline criticises Jeremy Corbyn for not fighting hard enough for the EU — criticism that clearly applies also to you. This belittling is not a one-time occurance either.

Not only do you not speak for us, you are now attempting to stop us using our own voices to speak for ourselves. This is not acceptable.

We could go on with further examples of you failing to represent The Green Party or bringing us into disrepute (your failure to present Green Party inheritance policy on BBC Question Time, for example) but the point is already clear: your recent actions do not represent The Green Party. Were we to have more members of the House of Lords, this would not be as much of an issue, but as our sole member, the stakes are too high. Therefore, we the membership, request that you make a serious attempt to apologise to, and otherwise make amends with, the vast swathes of members your recent behaviour has alienated, so that we can heal as a party and move on with a united front. Your recent actions have demanded a response, and now we, in this letter, request amends.