Brighton Council fails to pass cuts budget after Green rebellion
Brighton's Royal Pavillion UPDATE: The council has now passed a budget which contains cuts. It went through on the 3rd of March. See our report here. ------- Green-controlled Brighton &…
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…
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…
More on a Plaid Cymru/Green Party electoral pact
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood Last week I argued that Plaid and the Greens should make electoral pacts to protect (and maybe win) seats for Plaid. My argument was that…
Showing race equality the green light
Are road accidents a 'race' issue? Nearly 50 years ago in Oakland, California, a political movement ran one of its earliest campaigns on this topic – protesting against a set…
Greens raise £75k to stand in most constituencies in May
The Green Party's crowdfunding campaign. Image: Green Party of England & Wales. The Green Party hit a milestone on Sunday, after raising nearly £75,000 towards standing in as many constituencies…
The Green Party and Plaid Cymru should make three strategic pacts in Wales
Leanne Wood AM. Image: Wikipedia. Alex Randall lives in Machynlleth and has worked on a number of climate change campaigns and projects. He is writing here in a personal capacity.…