http://www.google.com/search?q=Dr+Spencer-Fitzgibbon
first google hit,
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2004/06/greens-go-barmy.html
Okay, first of all we didn't split the vote, you fuckers - you did. We
asked you to team up with us, and you responded with some pretty
odious red-baiting and party self-interest.
2nd embedded hyperlink, "odious red-baiting, " links to,
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,9061,1146862,00.html
>...But the Greens, established in their current form in 1972, dubbed
Mr Galloway a "whinger" and accused the Respect - the Unity Coalition
party of being dominated by the hard-left Socialist Workers party.
Green party spokesman Spencer Fitzgibbon said: " It would have been strange for the Green party to merge itself with that new party. This would have meant throwing away, overnight, decades of building an open, democratic, participative organisation with a complete set of policies and with increasing respect amongst the public, in order to join a new party which has only a sketchy policy statement and which is dominated by the SWP. That wasn't very appealing."
Everything I've read in the Giardian, the Weekly Worker of the Communist Party of GB, http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/2005.html , Workers Liberty/Solidarity, UKLeftNetwork at yahoogroups and Socialist Worker makes me believe that Respect is dominated by the UK SWP. And half of the pounds that fund the party come from a conspiracy theory addled reactionary, http://www.ericlee.me.uk/archive/000126.html
Ruthless? I've always thought Bolsheviks were a bit tougher than this whining.
-- Michael Pugliese