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Vote 2017: The Results

Our elections live blog including full results for Greens standing in England, Wales and Scotland begins at 11am. Visit:

A Plea to Fellow Remainers – Our Best Chance Lies In Jeremy Corbyn

If you are a hard-core Remainer, it might present a depressing prospect that the Labour Party officially “accepts the result” of the referendum, but ask yourself this question:...

Local Elections: Greens advance in Scotland; Challenge now set for the left at Westminster

The Green Parties in England, Wales and Scotland had an encouraging day following local elections across Britain. Emily Durrant, elected in Powys, became the Party’s first councillor ever elected...

Patrick Harvie: ‘minority of aggressive voices’ must not dominate next referendum

At the end of March, the Scottish Parliament did the political equivalent of a two-finger salute to Westminster – by voting for a second independence referendum. While they don’t...

Vote 2017: The Results

Bright Green8 June 20171 Comment 2017-06-13T18:35:37+00:00

Our elections live blog including full results for Greens standing in England, Wales and Scotland begins at 11am. Visit:

Green Party to host Autumn Conference in Harrogate

Molly Arthurs 2 June 2017 1 Comment2017-06-02T15:20:27+00:00

The Green Party of England and Wales will hold their 2017 Autumn Conference in Harrogate, returning just a year and a half after their 2016 Spring Conference in the...

Queen’s University Belfast set to divest from fossil fuels

Bradley Allsop 28 May 2017 No Comment2017-05-30T12:27:26+00:00

Queen’s University Belfast last week announced their intent to end all investments in fossil fuels by 2025. The announcement on the Queen’s University website states: “Following discussions with...

Greens put forward a sixth vision for the future of Europe

Tom Bailey 20 May 2017 No Comment2017-05-20T13:47:29+00:00

The Greens/European Free Alliance has released it’s ‘6th Scenario’ for the future of Europe, based on sustainability, transparency and human rights. Released earlier this year, the European Commission’s white...

General Election: Scottish Greens standing in only three seats threatens Tory’s advance

Ric Lander 10 May 2017 No Comment2017-06-06T15:38:20+00:00

The Scottish Greens have announced they will stand in only three of Scotland’s 59 constituencies in the forthcoming UK General Election. It is understood that local branches were given...

Local Elections: Greens advance in Scotland; Challenge now set for the left at Westminster

Ric Lander 5 May 2017 1 Comment2017-05-30T12:25:33+00:00

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Dodgy climate accounting rules pose a real threat to our forests

Zak Gratton20 June 2017No Comment 2017-06-20T12:03:07+00:00

Global forests play a huge role as a carbon sink. At the same time, how we manage (or mismanage) forests and land has a major impact on the climate...

Youth turnout in the 2017 general election- what was going on?

Ben Kisby 15 June 2017 No Comment2017-06-15T15:30:23+00:00

While the opinion pollsters are still crunching the data, initial evidence suggests that there was a considerable increase in youth turnout in this year’s general election, which has...

The Tory/DUP partnership could be a mixed bag for Northern Ireland

Ciarán Gallaghar 15 June 2017 No Comment2017-06-15T10:18:22+00:00

If you’ve lived in Belfast as long as I have and hold any list of principles left of a century old Calvinist preacher then you’ve probably been to...

Trust and integrity have returned to British politics

Violeta Vajda 13 June 2017 1 Comment2017-06-13T19:07:40+00:00

As election night progressed, I started noticing that the general sentiment was huge surprise at the massive Labour gains, starting with the possibility of a hung parliament indicated by...

Where to go, what to do? Greens and the Corbyn challenge

Mark Ballard 13 June 2017 13 Comments2017-06-13T13:38:33+00:00

Mark Ballard was Green MSP for Lothian from 2003-2007. He writes here is a personal capacity. When I left the Labour Party in the early nineties and started to...

What does GE2017 mean for Northern Ireland?

Ciarán Gallaghar 7 June 2017 No Comment2017-06-07T20:38:47+00:00

To maintain even a meagre sense of optimism in Northern Irish politics one needs the patience of a particularly composed saint. But even us saints who do our...