THE GREEN PARTY DEPUTY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS 2018: ANDREW COOPER

Posted on July 27, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #GPLE2018, #greenleadership, Amelia Womack, Andrew Cooper, Brexit, british politics, caroline lucas, deputy, election, featured, fracking, grassroots, Green, Green Party, Jonathan Bartley, jonathan chilvers, Kirklees, Labour, labour party, leader, lgbtqia, maggie chapman, natalie bennett, politics, Sian Berry.

The Norwich Radical aims to offer wide and fair coverage of both national and international politics, including elections, campaigns, and movements affecting local and wider scale policies. In light of this, we have contacted all the candidates standing in both the Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections for The Green Party of England and Wales, asking them to explain their vision for the Party and the country. We will be publishing their responses over the week leading up to the elections.

by Andrew Cooper

Political parties are increasingly viewed with contempt by many people. Though you don’t have to have abhorrent sexist and racist views to be in the Conservative Party it is the Party where this is most tolerated. In Government the Conservatives have largely been fronted by ‘characters’ or probably more accurate to say cartoon-like caricatures. Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnson and William Gove. The point is that they are often so bizarre in behaviour as well as their politics that they are completely unrelatable to by millions of people.Continue Reading

THE GREEN PARTY DEPUTY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS 2018: JONATHAN CHILVERS

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #GPLE2018, #greenleadership, Amelia Womack, Andrew Cooper, Brexit, british politics, caroline lucas, deputy, election, featured, grassroots, Green, Green Party, Jonathan Bartley, jonathan chilvers, Labour, labour party, leader, LGBTQIA+, maggie chapman, natalie bennett, politics, Sian Berry.

by Jonathan Chilvers

My favourite part of Question of Sport used to be ‘What Happens Next?’ A piece of recorded sporting action would be paused and the teams would guess what amusing blunder was about to happen before it was revealed by the presenter.

In British politics at the moment nobody knows what is going to happen next. Politics is always unpredictable, but in UK even the most powerful players just don’t know what Brexit deal will happen or what that will mean for the country. This is before we all try and predict the impact of Trump, Russia and Climate Change. This is deeply unsettling for most of the public. What most people want whether they voted leave or remain is for politicians to get on and sort it out. To protect stability, prosperity and a general sense of everyone rubbing along without being too upset.

But the scale of the challenges we face as a nation don’t allow for the status quo. Change is going to continue to come and the Green party is well placed to make a significant positive era to a new political and economic settlement.Continue Reading

THE GREEN PARTY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS 2018: LESLIE ROWE

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #GPLE2018, #greenleadership, Amelia Womack, Andrew Cooper, british politics, caroline lucas, climate change, deputy, election, featured, grassroots, Green, Green Party, Jonathan Bartley, Labour, labour party, leader, leslie rowe, lgbtqia, maggie chapman, Naomi Klein, natalie bennett, politics, privatisation, radical, Sian Berry.

by Leslie Rowe

I am deeply disappointed at the current state of British politics. For too long we have allowed a Tory minority to undermine our NHS, social services, local government, emergency services and indeed the full plethora of public services. The Conservative policy of forcing up the costs of services by privatisation and then cutting those services in the name of austerity, is a fraud being perpetrated on the British people, which the mass media have singularly failed to call out.Continue Reading

THE GREEN PARTY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS 2018: SIAN BERRY & JONATHAN BARTLEY

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #GPLE2018, #greenleadership, Amelia Womack, Andrew Cooper, british politics, caroline lucas, deputy, election, featured, grassroots, Green, Green Party, Jonathan Bartley, Labour, labour party, leader, LGBTQIA+, maggie chapman, natalie bennett, politics, Sian Berry.

by Sian Berry and Jonathan Bartley

The Green Party’s recent local election success around the country shows the impact we can have when we get our politics and strategy right. We took seats from both Conservatives and Labour with our clear message that having a Green on your council holding them to account benefits everyone. We won votes from across the spectrum by showing our councillors are effective, principled and hard-working.Continue Reading

THE NORWICH RADICAL YEAR IN REVIEW 2016

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community, Inter|national, Perspectives, Student and tagged #noDAPL, #readwomen, #shakespeare400, #standwithJNU, 2016, academies, Amelia Womack, articles, arts, Australia, BDS, Beyonce, biomass, black lives matter, BLM, Brazil, Brexit, canada, caroline lucas, Chris Jarvis, Colombia, comics, Community, conference, cricket, cuba, david bowie, divestment, easter rising, editorial, education, empire, Ende Gelände, energy, erik petersen, EU ref, feminism, football, fossil free, France, gender, Green Party, hate crime, HE, Heathtrow 13, housing, India, international, iraq, israel, Italy, IWD, JNU, Jonathan Bartley, journalism, Leave, LEMONADE, LGBTQIA+, malia bouattia, Marina Prentoulis, meantal health, media, mental health, migration, mischief brew, music, national, Nigeria, norfolk, Norway, norwich, Norwich Radical, NUS, owl sanctuary, Panama Papers, people and planet, Perspectives, Peter Tatchell, poetry, PokemonGO, politics, punk, queer, racism, radical, reclaim the power, refuge, refugee, refugees, Remain, representation, resist, review, round up, SAAC, sadiq khan, school, sexuality, Standing Rock, student, student movement, Syria, the gambia, the Philippines, trans, translation, UEA, UEA SU, uk, university, US, US presidential election, violence, visibility, War of Words, whitewashing, wrestlemania, writing, year in review, Zambia.

by The Norwich Radical

2016 was a bleak year for many. Across the world, the forces of liberty, of social progress, and of environmental justice lost time and again in the face of rising fascism, increased alienation, and intensifying conflict. That notwithstanding, there have been moments of light. In the Austrian Presidential election, the electorate confirmed the independently Green candidate Alexander van der Bellen; the #noDAPL water protectors gained a soft victory in early December; in fact, there is a full list of positives from the past year, if you want cheering up.

2016 saw our team expand to more than 25 writers, editors, and artists as well as host our first ever progressive media conference, War of Words. Our readership has grown from 5,000 per month to more than 6,500 per month. In total, nearly 80,000 people have read content on The Norwich Radical website this year.

In 2017, The Norwich Radical will turn three years old, with plans to grow our team and publication more than ever before. We’ll also be returning to Norwich to bring debate and discussion on the future of the media, with War of Words back for a second year. Continue Reading

FIVE IMPRESSIVE FACTS ABOUT THE GREEN PARTY LEADERSHIP

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Amelia Womack, BAME, caroline lucas, co-convenors, co-leaders, conservatives, differently, green leadership, Green Party, green party leadership, greens, job share, Jonathan Bartley, Labour, leadership, Liberal Democrats, margaret thatcher, model of politics, natalie bennett, Parliament, political party, politics, puffles the dragon, representation, scottish green party, Shahrar Ali, theresa may, UKIP, women, Young Greens.

by Chris Jarvis

Last weekend, the Green Party crowned its new leader, at its largest conference to date. The result came as no surprise to anybody – Caroline Lucas and her Co-Leader running mate Jonathan Bartley were elected with an overwhelming mandate, scooping up a phenomenal 86% of the vote. Given that the result was largely a foregone conclusion at the point that candidates were announced, and that the election would naturally get swallowed by the much larger, more adversarial battle in the Labour Party, this was a subdued, uninspiring election.

In spite of that, the Green Party and their leadership are unique, fascinating and impressive in a whole range of ways. Here are five of them.Continue Reading

HAS CAROLINE LUCAS KILLED THE GREEN LEADERSHIP ELECTION?

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #greenleadership, Amelia Womack, Andrew Cooper, british politics, caroline lucas, election, Green, Green Party, Jonathan Bartley, Labour, labour party, maggie chapman, natalie bennett, patrick harvie, politics.

by Olivia Hanks

The Green Party has come a long way in the last few years. When Natalie Bennett took over from Caroline Lucas as leader in 2012, the party had 13,000 members and won just over a quarter of a million votes in the 2010 general election. In 2015, that rose to more than one million votes, while membership shot up to 60,000. The party is now embarking on its first leadership election under these drastically changed conditions. With Bennett announcing last month that she would not be re-standing for the leadership, the stage was set for an exciting contest for the votes of this vastly increased electorate, with many hoping for a debate on the direction of the party and anticipating the emergence of new voices.

THE 10 PEOPLE WHO COULD BE THE NEXT LEADER OF THE GREEN PARTY

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged activism, activist core, Adrian Ramsay, Amelia Womack, Andrew Cooper, BME, caroline lucas, Caroline Russell, Darren Hall, derek wall, ecosocialist, Ekklesia, female leader, green membership, Green MP, Green Party, Green Party leader, ideology, Jennifer Nadel, Jenny Jones, jeremy corbyn, Jonathan Bartley, Labour, Ladbrokes, leader candidates, leader election, left wing, membership, Molly Scot Cato, natalie bennett, Open Democracy, peter cranie, prediction, rupert read, Shahrar Ali, Sian Berry, voters, Wales Green Party.

by Chris Jarvis

Something somewhat unprecedented is happening. The media is paying attention to the internal workings of the Green Party. Since Natalie Bennett announced her intentions not to stand for re-election as the party’s leader, speculation has begun to bubble around the online media about who her replacement might be. Early predictions from pundits included the party’s 2016 London Mayoral Candidate Sian Berry, former European Parliamentary candidate Rupert Read and Member of the House of Lords Jenny Jones have each ruled themselves out of the race (Sian Berry was technically ineligible to stand in the first place).

Almost immediately, Ladbrokes opened a market on the race, initially comprising the obvious frontrunners, before eventually taking random, and sometimes outrageously comical suggestions of potential candidates from Twitter. Unsurprisingly, then, little light has been shed on the realistic contenders, the notable exception being The Guardian’s quote heavy coverage, and Josiah Mortimer’s round up in Open Democracy. We have a long way to go from now until the end of the election in September, and much could change between now and then, but here is some mostly unfounded speculation on who the big contenders could be.Continue Reading

Amelia Womack

THE GREEN PARTY DEPUTY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS 2018: ANDREW COOPER

THE GREEN PARTY DEPUTY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS 2018: JONATHAN CHILVERS

THE GREEN PARTY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS 2018: LESLIE ROWE

THE GREEN PARTY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS 2018: SIAN BERRY & JONATHAN BARTLEY

THE NORWICH RADICAL YEAR IN REVIEW 2016

HAS CAROLINE LUCAS KILLED THE GREEN LEADERSHIP ELECTION?

THE 10 PEOPLE WHO COULD BE THE NEXT LEADER OF THE GREEN PARTY

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