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13 December 2019 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Greens have increased their vote numbers by over 60% this election, which no other party has achieved. More than 850,000 voters backed the Greens, beating the Brexit Party by at least 200,000 votes. Green candidates in nearly 500 constituencies persuaded people to vote based on their Green New Deal promise to tackle the climate crisis, […]
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1 June 2019 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Prior to these elections we had no principal tier Councillors in the North East. We now have 4 Councillors! We have massively increased our representation across the region, and we are giving residents green elected representation for the first time ever. We also had a number of close second places, which points to our hard […]
16 May 2019 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
This is your chance to turn the North East Green – by voting for the Green Party candidates for the NE region in the European election in exactly seven days time on Thursday 23rd May. Why vote Green To stay in the EU: We are proud to be pro-European. As the largest group of UK […]
14 May 2019 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
‘Britain has enough coal stockpiled at power stations to fuel them until they are shut down forever!’ As reported in today’s Times – Friends of the Earth analysed updated government figures on current coal reserves concluding, “coal stocks held at power stations are more than enough to generate the projected amount of electricity”, until 2025, […]
7 May 2019 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Climate change is happening faster than anyone thought it would. Our governments are not being honest about the speed and the scale of the breakdown. Half of the carbon emissions that are currently heating our planet have been emitted over the last thirty years – when we’ve known what we were doing. Despite the Paris […]
4 May 2019 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
3 June 2017 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
We were delighted to have Caroline Lucas, Co-Leader of the Green Party, visit the North East in December. She spoke first at a public meeting in Durham on Thursday 8th on what the city would look like if it really met all of people’s needs. Her key point was that a Green Industrial Strategy is […]
3 January 2017 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
13 July 2016 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Britain is playing with the idea of‘city bosses’, mayors with a much stronger political role, something quite common abroad. In the 1960s, T. Dan Smith did a similar job in the NE and it was one that ought not to be repeated.
28 April 2016 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
The North East England region of the Green Party will not be contesting these elections. The deposit of £5,000 for each of the three candidates in our region is punitive, restricting candidatures to organisations with rich backers. This is quite undemocratic. The position itself is not only too centralised but also too isolated from other […]