WE STAND ON A PRECIPICE – THE SNAP GENERAL ELECTION

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged austerity, benefits, Bernie Sanders, Brexit, british politics, caroline lucas, civil liberties, climate change, comprehensive schools, conservative party, conservatives, corbyn, cuts, education, election, elections, emmanuel macron, GE17, general election, grammar schools, Green, Green Party, green surge, greens, incarceration, international development, islamophobia, jean-luc melenchon, jeremy corbyn, Jonathan Bartley, Labour, labour party, leanne wood, Liberal Democrats, macron, market, melenchon, migration, military intervention, NHS, nick clegg, nicola sturgeon, Northern Ireland, owen smith, paul nuttall, politics, privatisation, progressive alliance, public sector, public services, sanders, schools, Scotland, scottish national party, SDLP, Sinn Féin, snp, social democratic and labour party, theresa may, Tim Farron, Tories, Tory, tory party, uk politics, Wales, war, welfare, xenophobia.

by Chris Jarvis

With Theresa May having all but called an early General Election, on June 8^th, the UK will go to the polls for yet another vote that will have long-reaching consequences for the future of the nation, the third in as many years. For the people of Scotland and Wales it will be the fourth – and those living in Northern Ireland will face their fifth. Right now, our political leaders can’t seem to get enough of sending people trudging out to schools, churches and community centres to scribble little pencil crosses in printed boxes.Continue Reading

4 REASONS WHY NATALIE BENNETT HAS BEEN A GREAT GREEN PARTY LEADER

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged accessible, british politics, election results, face to face, front line, grassroots, Green Party, green surge, humanising politics, legacy, local, local green parties, mayoral election, media, membership, natalie bennett, old school, political leader, the green party, the sunday politics.

by Chris Jarvis

On Sunday evening, Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett announced that she would not be standing for re-election in the forthcoming Leadership Election. After four years at the helm of what is now the third largest political party in England and Wales, the media and followers of politics have begun to reflect on her time in office and the legacy she is leaving behind.

Unsurprisingly, a substantial proportion of the coverage has focussed on the Australian born leader’s shortcomings, reminding us of her ‘brain fade’ in an LBC interview with Nick Ferrari or the time she seemed to support decriminalising membership of organisations such as ISIS in an unforgiving clash with Andrew Neil on The Sunday Politics. Those things notwithstanding, it is clear to that Bennett has undoubtedly been an effective and successful Leader, who will be remembered more for her long list of achievements, rather than by her failures. Here are just four of them.Continue Reading

DEMOCRACY IN ACTION – THE GREEN PARTY CONFERENCE

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged #greensurge, democracy, food redistribution, food waste, food waste motion, foodcycle, Green Party, green party autumn conference, green party membership, green surge, norwich foodcycle, party conference, party membership, party policy, rowan van tromp, rowan van tromp food waste, soil association, surplus food, the green party, westminster parties.

by Rowan Van Tromp

Last weekend Green Party activists descended on the South coast of Bournemouth for the Party’s Autumn Conference. Many of the 2,000 plus members and supporters were in attendance for the first time, a reflection of the #GreenSurge in membership, which has more than doubled to over 60,000 since the start of the year.

Conference is the ultimate decision making body of the Green Party, through which all party policy is created. Unlike other Westminster parties, anyone can directly affect the process of policy creation, simply by becoming a member and submitting a motion — to either change or remove existing policy, or to create new policy where there are gaps. It’s this form of bottom up politics that empowers members to contribute to the areas of policy they are passionate and knowledgeable about.Continue Reading

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4 REASONS WHY NATALIE BENNETT HAS BEEN A GREAT GREEN PARTY LEADER

DEMOCRACY IN ACTION – THE GREEN PARTY CONFERENCE

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