Lib Dems must ask themselves: Do they really want to be the people that killed the NHS?
Stuart Jeffery, the Green Party’s health spokesman, explains the party’s opposition to the health and social care bill, and the consequences if it is passed.
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Where are you on the political spectrum: Red Tory, Blue Labour or Green Democrat?
The absence in Red Toryism and Blue Labour thinking around personal liberty, social mobility & environmental awareness can be filled by a Green Democrat vision.
Durban’s a letdown, Canada’s a dropout, and Russia’s leaking methane
Alex Hern rounds up the latest news from the Durban climate change sujmmit, and the latest environment news from around the world.
Boris’s leadership is getting beyond a joke
Jenny Jones AM writes about Boris Johnson’s failures as London Mayor in response to his speech to this week’s Conservative party conference.
Pickles’s bribe to councils is a white elephant
Rupert Read discusses the flaws, in both aim and execution, of Eric Pickles’s plan to return to weekly bin collections.
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.
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?