Green Party
It’s up to the Greens to take down UKIP
Posted on May 5, 2013 by Adam Ramsay | 28 Comments
In the next few years we shall either get that effective Socialist party that we need, or we shall not get it. If we do not get it, then Fascism is coming; probably a slimy Anglicized form of Fascism, with cultured policemen instead of Nazi gorillas and the lion and the unicorn instead of the [...]
Online survey shows Green Party has most popular policies
Posted on April 22, 2013 by Adam Ramsay | 6 Comments
This should be old news by now. Once more, the excellent folk at ‘Vote For Polices’ have produced a survey encouraging people to do a blind comparison of their beliefs with the policies of the six biggest UK-wide political parties – Labour, Tories, Lib Dems, UKIP, BNP and Greens. And once more, of the 312,000 [...]
Watch the Greens’ thrillingly unapologetic, socialist broadcast
Posted on April 19, 2013 by Gary Dunion | 11 Comments
Caroline Lucas’ local election film is the clearest and most explicit proclamation of the Greens’ democratic socialist principles ever.
Brighton Council refuses to evict over Bedroom Tax
Posted on March 16, 2013 by Adam Ramsay | 8 Comments
Green Party controlled Brighton city council has confirmed it will refuse to evict those who cannot afford to pay the ‘bedroom tax’. The council is the first in the UK England* to take such a position. Green Councillor Liz Wakefield said: “As Greens, we cannot throw people out onto the streets just because they’re unable [...]
Former Northampton Labour MP Tony Clarke joins Green Party
Posted on March 13, 2013 by Adam Ramsay | 3 Comments
Tony Clarke, former Labour MP for Northampton, has joined the Green Party. Mr Clarke, a one time rebel Labour MP, is now an independent councillor in his city, and stood for Parliament as an independent in 2010. Clarke, who was MP for Northampton South from 1997-2005, writes on his blog, in a post entitled “I [...]
Elliot Folan’s speech on the new Green philisophical basis
Posted on March 4, 2013 by Elliot Folan | 1 Comment
editors note – there has been some conversation about the change to the Green Party’s philisophical basis at this year’s Spring Conference which put social justice central. Here is the speech made in favour of the change by Young Green Elliot Folan (currently running in UEA student elections). You can read Elliot’s blog here. Good [...]
Social Justice at the Heart: Green Party’s Clause 4 Moment at Nottingham Conference 2013
Posted on February 28, 2013 by Peter McColl | 10 Comments
On Friday Britain lost its ‘Triple-A Credit Rating’ as a result of a Westminster Government seeking to reverse all the gains made by working people over the past 170 years. It has never been more important for the Green Party to assert its position as the only party that can stand up to the destruction [...]
Green World is right not to run adverts for Population Matters
Posted on February 13, 2013 by Adam Ramsay | 123 Comments
Someone isn’t happy. Here at Bright Green towers, we received a pretty miffed email from a member of the Green Party complaining about the party magazine – Green World. They seemed to want us to expose Green World for “censorship”. So, what is the allegation? Well, it boils down to this: Population Matters – the [...]
The way the economic wind blows and what it means for the left
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Alex Wood | 6 Comments
With employment increasing, is the economic crisis nearing an end? or are we heading for triple dip recession as manufacturing and exports shrink? Will the economy be on the mend by the next election, or will we be in the middle of a lost decade? Each day the newspapers confront us with suggestions that the [...]
This conference could establish the Greens as the party of the left
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Admin | 4 Comments
Josiah Mortimer, University of York Green Party The Green Party of England and Wales’ Spring Conference looks set to be a radical one. In just a couple of weeks’ time – and on the Greens’ 40th ‘birthday’ – hundreds will gather to determine the direction of the party. The votes of these members could help [...]
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