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 our policy debates, and the potential we have for growth at local level. But I now want to turn again to our most important resource: our [...]

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.
1) The equality panel. Kate Pickett (co-author of The Spirit Level) and Indy columnist Johan Hari discussed inequality in society. Both were excellent. Kate Pickett’s thesis [...]

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 to conduct a full review of the relevant section of our, recently renamed, Policies for a Sustainable Society document. Jim and Stuart have blogged on [...]

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 fairly uncontroversial. First up, Turkey, and the systematic attempts of the Turkish government to shut down political expressions of Kurdish nationalism. I didn’t quite catch [...]

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 were a couple of interesting points yesterday.
First of all, science. This is one area where, as has been well pointed out, a lot of people [...]