The Greens in the UK have beaten the first past the post system, designed to keep the so-called smaller parties, the parties of new thinking, out of Parliament. Winning in Brighton was a major landmark, the full impact of which will take some time to show. While the Brighton campaign drew in a great deal of [...]
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Here are the resuts for our four brave candidates: Chesterfield Derbyshire Dales High Peak Borough Council – New Mills West ward: Derby City Council – Boulton ward: Derby City Council – Darley ward: The Green team turned-out in force in Chesterfield yesterday and we took the opportunity to talk to market stall holders (there’s been a market on that site for 800 years). With the opening of the new Tescos market trade is suffering badly. As the candidate for Chesterfield I have been asking why the Liberal Democrat controlled Borough council [...] Jane Temple has lived in Derby for 21 years and in Darley Ward for the last 11 years. She is a railway engineer and a long-standing campaigner on environmental and social justice issues. Jane wants to live in a city and country that recognise the finite resources of our planet. The [...] One issue should dominate this election. It will affect the lives of our children and of their children. It has the potential to disrupt economies and topple governments. It is Climate Change. Already extreme weather events worldwide are causing misery, death and devastation. The World Health Organization estimates that 160,000 people die each year through disease, drought [...] It was encouraging that millions watched the ‘Prime Minister’s Debate’. Sadly this was an empty exercise in political point scoring, mostly negative. It failed to address the serious issues that all the inhabitants of our small planet face. In the ‘Vote for Policies’ campaign, 133,000 people so far have voted for policies without knowing the party label. [...] |
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