Green and MK candidates pull out – opportunity for a pact?
On Tuesday, another brace of candidates in Cornwall fell by the wayside. The Green Party’s Sharron Kelsey, fairly invisible in Truro & Falmouth, pulled out for ‘personal reasons‘. As did MK’s…
‘Enough is Enough’ – Green Councillor Alex Phillips speaks out against Brighton cuts
Yesterday Brighton and Hove City Council held a second budget-setting meeting after a Green rebellion led to last Thursday's full council meeting unable to pass a budget, due to six Greens…
Have the Labour Party EVER supported a strike?
Rhymney Valley Women’s Support Group. Image: National Museum of Wales. Today is the 30th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike, the climax of Margaret Thatcher’s war against trade…
Labour’s tuition fee pledge shows just how bleak politics has become
Students protest for free education in London, 19 November 2014. Photo: William Pinkney-Baird. It is often said that the electorate has a short memory, a saying that Labour is clearly…
Lowering tuition fees to £6000 ignores the problems of student debt
Robbie Lee, a 15-year-old member of Manchester Young Greens, on why Labour’s promise to lower tuition fees to £6000 is not enough. Students protest in support of free education, 19…
8 thoughts on the Natalie Bennett interviews
Natalie Bennett had what, by common consensus, was a couple of awful interviews on Tuesday - there's no denying it. Nor was it helped by Jenny Jones then utterly stuffing up…
The Scottish Referendum shows it’s time to give 16 year olds the vote
Ross Greer, Green Party candidate for East Dunbartonshire and former Communities Coordinator for Yes Scotland, on how the Scottish Referendum shows that Scotland – and the UK – is ready…
Here’s how the Greens would build 500,000 council houses
By now, many of you will have heard, or at least heard of, LBC radio’s interview with Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) leader Natalie Bennett in which she…
Green politics is transformative or it is irrelevant
Yesterday the media was alive with reports on Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett’s interview performances. This was, of course, entirely unrelated to the fact two senior politicians from the corporate…
Could the Greens win two Welsh Assembly seats in 2016?
With the General Election predicted to be rather boring in Wales, many people are already thinking about the 2016 Assembly elections. The Welsh Assembly elections are more exciting, and are…