Lucas: Drug addiction should be a health issue not a criminal one
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas sets out her calls for a new approach to dealing with drugs, and says drug addiction should be a health issue not a criminal one.
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Vote 2011: Green campaign diary
Green Party councillor Rupert Read kicks off Left Foot Forward’s dispatches from the front: the campaign diaries of party activists on the election trail.
AV is a small but significant step in improving our political system
Green Party London Assembly member Darren Johnson is supporting a Yes vote on May 5th because it will mean people can start to vote for what they really believe in.
Lucas launches campaign to end £16bn tax evasion scandal
Green party leader Caroline Lucas will table a new Tax and Financial Transparency Bill in Parliament today, to tackle what she describes as “the UK’s billion-pound tax evasion scandal”, reports Shamik Das.
It’s time pay inequality became a priority
Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the London Assembly, asks: Should we give equal priority to income inequality and tackle the pay of people at the top, in the belief that reducing the income gap will lead to economic, social and environmental justice? And can we find we right policies to achieve this?
A ratio cap of 20:1 won’t make pay fairer
The Green Party’s Darren Johnson, member of the London Assembly, argues Will Hutton’s proposal of a 20:1 wage cap is, in reality, too high.
Green challenges on transport policy
When Labour came to power in 1997, it promised to reverse the remorseless growth in road traffic. Within a few years, Labour’s first transport secretary, John Prescott, had self-admittedly failed in this ambition, and indeed Labour had almost been sunk by the fuel-price protests. If the Left is to achieve real change in the all-important area of ‘transport policy’, then it is going to have to be both much more ambitious and much more savvy than was the Blair government.
Is the Green Party now the natural home for disaffected lefties?
With the Lib Dems in Coalition with the Tories, the Green has policies to please those who feel abandoned by other left-of-centre parties.
Compass must practice what it preaches on pluralism
There remains a contradiction at the heart of Compass’s pluralist mission. Compass, while not formally affiliated to the Labour Party, is registered with the Party, and has a rule that forbids members of other parties from being full members.
A rainbow coalition? The role of the Green party
There is a progressive majority in the UK. But a parliamentary coalition requires the support of small parties. What will the Green party choose to do?
