Conference so far…
The weekend of conference so far has been pretty packed - motions, workshops, plenaries, etc. The theme for Saturday was essentially cuts and credit crunch. In the morning, the party…
My Green Conference Highlights (Saturday and Sunday)
I have never been to a political conference, so the Greens will be my first! The conference is very much like Compass’: to borrow a phrase from Yes Minister’s Bernard…
On Route to Green Party Conference
Our guest contributor is Sam Coates
And they called us anti-science
Today Vince Cable continues his attack on science, and academic research more generally, as he announces we must abandon research which is "neither commercially useful nor theoretically outstanding". Cable will…
James Youd: No to a Green shadow cabinet
This weekend's Green Party conference will hear a motion to have a shadow cabinet of national spokespeople elected by the membership. Two weeks ago, Jonathan Kent argued in favour; here…
Democratising and professionalising our Party further
Our guest writer is Cllr Rupert Read In my 'series' here on BG (see here) exploring the direction our Party (GPEW) needs to take, I have covered a little about…
The 5 best bits of Green spring conference.
(Green Party of England and Wales) Spring Conference fun is over, so I thought I'd write my top 5 things from the weekend, for those of you who missed it.…
Green Party Conference Days 3&4: A sensible health policy
After a certain degree of criticism last year around the time of the European elections, much of it fair, over some of our policies related to healthcare it was decided…
GPEW Conference Day 2: First a tragedy, then a farce
Lots of policy to talk about on day 2 of the conference, some of which I've mentioned already, some which I haven't. We began with two more emergency motions, both…
Green Party of England and Wales Conference Day 1: Science and Inequality
So, first day of conference, not always a lot to report from Thursday, it's a half day and much of the time is the standing orders committee report but there…