Who are the Greens’ new MEPs? #1: Alex Phillips
Image credit: YouTube screengrab Green Parties have achieved historic results across the continent in this year's European parliamentary elections. These results have been mirrored in the UK, where the Green…
Goodbye Theresa: UK Green news round up week 21
Greens respond to Theresa May's resignation Image credit: YouTube Screengrab After a premiership almost unparalleled in its chaos and incompetence, Theresa May finally announced her departure date this week. In…
Green MEP candidate: There are many problems in our country, but Nigel Farage isn’t the answer
Image credit: YouTube screengrab As a Green candidate in these EU elections, I've spent the last 3 weeks travelling across the South East of England. Oxford, Brighton, Portsmouth, Southampton, Dover,…
Green MEP candidate: Vote Green to stop the far right
To my absolute horror, a racist came to Burnley yesterday. I don’t want to name him – but think of thuggish violence and far-right extremism, and you’ll have a pretty…
Green MEP candidate: We need a humane migration policy
Content note: mentions rape, torture, domestic violence and conversion therapy Image credit: Creative Commons, Ilias Bartolini I am Jan Doerfel and I am a Green Party European election candidate for…
Air pollution and the school run: Why we need to go further than Walk to School Week
Image credit: Creative Commons, Des Blenkinsopp Every weekday morning in term-time, a massive queue of cars crawls along outside my daughter’s school in Brighton. The entire line grinds to a…
New poll has Greens on track to win FOUR seats in the next Welsh Assembly election
Another day, another impressive opinion poll result for the UK's Green Parties. This time, it's for the next Welsh Assembly elections scheduled for 2021. YouGov's latest voting intention poll has…
Four days until polling day – UK Green news round up week 20
Greens continue to surge in opinion polls Image credit: Rosie Rawle As polling day edges closer and closer, the Greens' fortunes look strong. For the first time ever a national…
Green MEP candidate: We must not frack away our future
It was in the Sussex village of Balcombe that fracking exploded into the public consciousness in the UK. In August 2013 Caroline Lucas was arrested as part of the protests…