Green Party of England and Wales

this is brilliant - people doing their own thing for their own needs & improving the environment at the same time :)
Brighton next!

Excellent news! About time really - now the rest of the country needs to catch up

Wishing Tony the best of luck from Tony!

Jeez that's a lame headline. If climate change runs its full course we'll end up with the human race being Murdoch's kids in a glass bubble somewhere growing their own cress and keeping warm from their own waste. Everyone else died fighting over the last drop of drinkable water.

Compared to that, yeah, having some climate change policies would tend to 'improve health'.

I don't think that you can call Afghanistan a legitimate war. Legal, maybe, but legit is pushing it. What we're talking about is a terrorist attack by an enemy which numbers (at most) in the thousands, invading an entire country to deal with it seems kinda like dealing with dandruff by decapitation. Besides which there is a much easier way to reduce the threat of terror - Remove your military bases from their soil and stop funding murderous, tyrannical regimes.

It's going to be kind of hard to 'handover' when Obama is talking about sending in more troops isn't it?

The whole thing is empire building - interfering in other parts of the world to gain influence & trade. In 100 years people will look back & see it as we do the treatment of Zulus in the 19th century. The interests of ordinary people are never... See More going to be served by war & certainly not by a bunch of global capitalists constantly interfering with their internal politics for personal gain.

National pride? What on earth does that mean? How can pride come from sending professional soldiers to a poor country to kill its people, blow up their villages & totally impoverish them?

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Worth adding that there is a science policy discussion list for members, and that there are a number of science-related motions, including on stem cell research, being put forward by members for voting on at the Spring Conference, so now's the chance to get stuck in and have your say Matt. (Sue Luxton)

re: CarolineCandidacy in B&H: science policy committees yes, B&H yes (gotta get elected in first) but prove that voting for any of the three LibLabCon candidates is a 'Wasted Vote' not voting Green or indie...

but please dont learn the same mistakes the LibLabCon parties have been developing over the years and decades please, stick to your guns ... See Moreand keep the faith, we will have a 100% Green government one day...

either that, or if you believe the American -inspired hysteria about 'sheeple' voting for the left-right pardigm, 90% of the sheeple will be dead come 2012... leaving us minority intellectuals liberal greens alive with a whole planet to explore anew...

Croydon south...had to be me to live in the safest conservative seat in the country didn't it!

but the great thing about Croydon, Sam (amongst many other things I'm sure) is that it's but a short train ride away from Brockley and New Cross stations, in Lewisham Deptford constituency - you'd be most welcome to come and help with our campaign in Lewisham Deptford. See http://darrenforlewisham.org.uk for further details.

love the cover of the new statesman!

brilliant idea

When lived in Eastbourne for a while, nearly every time a plane flew over - after a few minutes you could smel the fuel they were (presumably) dumping over what they thought was the sea by then, but was really our back garden.

Couldn't say I'd want to eat any of those apples! A nice gesture though.

...just to add I agree wholeheartedly with Mark J Smith and Pip Tindall that as a party we do need to press the message stronger on the link between social and environmental justice. In fact I think that is the key to greater success. Caroline Lucas indeed makes this case brilliantly and is quite inspiring when she does so. Bea Campbell is not...

It can only been seen as a positive that the Green party are now attracting many individuals who come from a socialist background. Green mentality is very similar to that of the left wing, the main difference is that our party is united behind a common ideolgy and a united banner where as the weakness of the Left in this country is its fractured ... See Moremulti party state.

It is perhaps testament to the progress of Green politics in the UK that our party is now seen as a party that can represent the ideals of a broad cross section of the political spectrum.