Barbarism With and Without a Human Face: Dale Farm, Brighton and Liberal Racism.
“Leaving with supporters today is about our own dignity and our appreciation of the support we’ve received. We’re leaving together as one family, and we are proud of that- you can’t take away our dignity.” – Dale Farm resident Mary Sheridan Two days ago bailiffs and police moved into Dale Farm to brutally remove residents [...]
Brighton Uncut verdict: 4 ‘not guilty’, 5 ‘guilty’
brightonuncut Brighton Uncut 4 of the #brighton9 in TopShop window not guilty of criminal damage. #ukuncut 27 minutes ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply brightonuncut Brighton Uncut Judge has found 5 of #brighton9 guilty of criminal damage to mannequins. The ones in the Topman window. #BrightonUncut #ukuncut 28 minutes ago So it is that Brighton Uncut [...]
Green-led council announces first steps towards living wage
Press release from the Brighton Green Party: Green council leader Bill Randall (21 July) announced radical plans to introduce a Living Wage in the city of Brighton & Hove. At a meeting of the whole council, he confirmed that the council will be taking a number of steps to reduce inequality in the city through [...]
Reaching beyond the core
Our Guest writer is Chris Williams, who has run a number of Green Party election campaigns, and was manager of the Norwich South General Election campaign. This is the latest in our series on messaging in Green election campaigns. Greens are attracted to be members not for the amazing 24/7 media coverage we receive or [...]
Vote Green on Thursday, or: Why Green MPs Change Everything
The 2010 election is the most significant election for greens in the UK. It comes at the pinnacle of a series of important elections. The outstanding performance of 1989 where Greens got 15% on the basis of Chernobyl put Greens on the political map. The European and Scottish elections in 1999 put Greens in Parliament. [...]
Tories propose corporate tax break?
It wasn’t just Greens keeping a close eye on our spring conference. Tory candidate for Brighton Pavillion, Charlotte Vere, was regularly tweeting about the event. This particular one caught my attention: @carolinelucas @jasonkitcat How wld you pay 4 ur policies on scrapping VAT + NI:£130bn, green jobs £44bn + transport £10bn?so £184bn.No rush so I [...]
Guardian video – Brighton Pavilion: A Green leap forward?
The Guardian seem pretty insistent on not allowing me to embed this, so I’m going to have to take the extraordinary editorial step of imploring you to leave Bright Green for 9 minutes or so and watch this video of the Guardian’s John Harris interviewing the three main Brighton Pavilion candidates. Caroline Lucas makes in [...]