Todays Green news
The Green Party has fielded candidates across England and Wales for the upcoming European elections, including outgoing Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Magid Magid, and Gina Dowding, a prominent anti-fracking campaigner and councillor in Lancashire.
The Green Party of England and Wales has announced its list of candidates for the European elections. Voters in the UK will go to the polls on Thursday 23 May to elect 73 MEPs across 11 electoral regions (nine in England, one for Scotland and one for Wales – there is a separate system in Northern Ireland). Each region has between three and 10 MEPs representing it. All parties submit a list of candidates for each region, and the electorate then votes not for candidates but for parties. The Green Party has fielded candidates in all nine English regions and Wales (65 in total). A number of significant figures in the party are standing to become MEPs, including the popular Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Magid Magid, who rose to fame for banning Donald Trump from the city, and Molly Scott Cato, current MEP for the South West and ardent Remain campaigner, who launched the Brexit Syndicate project to shine a light on the wealthy players behind the scenes of Brexit. Other candidates include anti-fracking campaigner Gina Dowding, Bristol’s Lord Mayor Cleo Lake, Lambeth councillor Scott Ainslie and Alex Phillips, the Deputy Mayor of Brighton and Hove. The full list can be found at the bottom of this article.
Keep land in community hands
“While Conservative and Labour candidates are getting doors slammed on them, up and down England and Wales local Greens are filling the gap. The Green Party has launched its local election campaign with a record number of candidates and a pledge to ensure local communities can make decisions about local land.
BRIGHT GREEN
Eleven days until polling day. UK Green news round up week 16
In Brighton & Hove the Young Greens held their big weekend of action, supporting five Young Green candidates Hannah Clare, Amy Heley, Raphael Hill, Alice Bennett and Martin Osborne. More than 25 volunteers from across the South East came to the city to campaign for the forthcoming elections and spread the Greens message. In Brighton Hove, the Greens hope to expand their tally of councillors further currently sitting at the joint highest level anywhere in the country at 11.
