Dear member, Today I was proud to launch the Green Party’s environment manifesto, putting our natural world at the heart of this general election. The environment is the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food that we eat, yet it’s rarely ever talked about in British politics. We’re going to change the … Read more
Dear member, Join Caroline Lucas in standing up for our NHS. Our NHS is on the brink of collapse. Hospitals are closing. Nurses’ pay is being frozen. People are being treated in hospital corridors. How did it come to this? Labour laid the foundations for privatisation. The Lib Dems helped push through the hated Health and … Read more
This is a personal blog post from the website caretaker – Vineeta. I volunteer at the local New Forest Green Party and attend as many meetings as possible. This month we have started a new ‘Green Drinks’ style event where local members and non-members can come and voice their thoughts related to the green issues. This … Read more
This has come through from Vicki at the Green Party on the 6th or April Greens across the South East are highlighting what they will do for local residents as the county election campaign gets under way. There will be a record number of Green candidates standing in the South East counties and the Isle … Read more
Four members of the NFGP distributed leaflets in Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst on Saturday, 11 June, promoting the Green Party’s stand for staying in the EU. The weather was overcast and footfall was not high, but a useful number of leaflets were distributed and there were some interesting short conversations. Passers-by were variously indifferent, of an opposite view, … Read more
Today there’s only fifty days to go until the General Election. Labour are still targeting Caroline’s seat heavily. We can expect them to step this up as the election gets closer. So we need to step it up too. We need to do all that we can to return her to Westminster – this will be close. We can … Read more
This idea that voting Green will somehow lead to the Conservatives winning the election seems incorrect to me for these reasons: 1. It is highly unlikely that the Tory vote will increase. My evidence for this is the people I have talked to as an activist on People’s Assembly and Unite Community street stalls and … Read more
The election campaign has started and we need your help! We are looking for contributors to our New Forest Green Party blog (nfgp.org.uk) to help keep the content fresh and original. Whether you want to write a one-off article or even a series (yes please!), we would like to hear from you. We are looking … Read more
Here is a link to our New Forest Green Party Crowd Funding campaign http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/new-forest-greens/ Project aim We are raising money to enable a Green Party candidate to stand for every seat in the New Forest in 2015. About the project In 2015 we want to stand as many candidates as possible in the New Forest … Read more
Join us! ‘Bring our railways back into public hands’ action day for Caroline Lucas MP. Saturday 28th February, anytime between 10am and 4pm at either of these two locations: 20 Hertford Road, BN1 7GB OR 247 Preston Road, BN1 6SE This Friday Caroline’s Railways Bill will go to its second reading in Parliament. The Bill calls for the railways to be brought … Read more