Pensioners grill parliamentary candidates
I was privileged to be asked to speak for the Green Party at an election hustings meeting organised by the Brighton branch of the National Pensioners Convention last night (30th October).
Read More →Winter clothes for refugees in Iraq
I have been privileged to be involved in a small way in a brilliant project based in Brighton dedicated to sending over second hand winter clothes to refugees in Iraq.
It is a simple idea, as all the best ones are: whatever your views on Iraq (and I have made clear my opposition to the recent bombing for example), everyone agrees that the many thousands of refugees within Iraq desperately need help with appropriate clothing before the onset of the harsh winter.
Read More →The rise of UKIP and how the Left should combat it
You would have to be a hermit not to have noticed the rise of UKIP in the last year or so.
The media has had a field day promoting UKIP as the next big thing in British politics to the exclusion of other options such as the Green Party.
So what should the Left do about it ?
Read More →Press Release on Green Spaces & Wildlife at Risk
The Green Parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown, Davy Jones, has sounded a warning about how lax planning controls are paving the way for the gradual disappearance of green spaces and wild life habitats, especially on the urban fringe.
Mr Jones is calling for a tightening of national planning legislation
Read More →NHS Workers Strike
For the first time for 20 years, NHS workers took strike action today. After years of austerity where their real wages have declined by 15%, NHS workers finally ran out of patience. I can never recall such widespread public support for a strike ! There must have been literally hundreds of people who tooted their car horns in support as they passed.
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