Reaching beyond the core

Our Guest writer is Chris Williams, who has run a number of Green Party election campaigns, and was manager of the Norwich South General Election campaign. This is the latest in our series on messaging in Green election campaigns.

Greens are attracted to be members not for the amazing 24/7 media coverage we receive or [...]

Vote Green on Thursday, or: Why Green MPs Change Everything

The 2010 election is the most significant election for greens in the UK. It comes at the pinnacle of a series of important elections. The outstanding performance of 1989 where Greens got 15% on the basis of Chernobyl put Greens on the political map. The European and Scottish elections in 1999 put Greens in Parliament. [...]

Tories propose corporate tax break?

It wasn’t just Greens keeping a close eye on our spring conference. Tory candidate for Brighton Pavillion, Charlotte Vere, was regularly tweeting about the event.
This particular one caught my attention:
@carolinelucas @jasonkitcat How wld you pay 4 ur policies on scrapping VAT + NI:£130bn, green jobs £44bn + transport £10bn?so £184bn.No rush
so I replied:
@charlottev dunno bout [...]

Guardian video – Brighton Pavilion: A Green leap forward?

The Guardian seem pretty insistent on not allowing me to embed this, so I’m going to have to take the extraordinary editorial step of imploring you to leave Bright Green for 9 minutes or so and watch this video of the Guardian’s John Harris interviewing the three main Brighton Pavilion candidates.
Caroline Lucas makes in my [...]