Green spaces sell off

I will be doing what I can to make people more aware of what is happening in Bexley. Green Bexley will not be Green much longer unless we remove the people who are in charge! Successive governments have put business over peoples lives and their communities and the Green Party want to put people first! The fact that Bexley is selling off 25% of their (our) Green spaces is a scandal! We will never get them back! Add your voice to the protest now! And vote Green at the general election to ensure the destruction of our green spaces is stopped!! 

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/11783929.Parks_and_open_spaces_debate__should_Bexley_Council_dispose_of_27_sites_to_save_cash_/?ref=twtrec

Green Party Statement on Rupert Read's comments

Statement from Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party, and Amelia Womack and Shahrar Ali, Deputy Leaders of the Green Party:

"As leaders of the Green Party we wish to state our disappointment with the comments made by Rupert Read and express our sympathies with anyone who was hurt or offended by his remarks.

"We are pleased that Rupert Read has issued a full apology and hope that his meetings with LGBTIQ groups will help to repair some of the upset that has been caused.

"The Green Party is wholly committed to fighting for equality and fair representation for all transgender and LGBTIQ communities and we wish to reiterate and reaffirm our party's commitment to that cause. We now want to do all we can to move forward positively and continue the important job of standing up for LGBTIQ rights."

Statement from the Green Party Women's Group:

"We reiterate the sentiment of the Green Party's leaders in response to these comments from Cambridge parliamentary candidate; Rupert Read. We were deeply concerned that Rupert Read's comments could promote misunderstanding of trans issues, and of modern feminism. Green Party Women considers feminism which excludes trans people to be an extremist fringe, with no place in the Green party, or the wider feminist movement. The feminist movement cannot succeed without paying attention to all aspects of inequality. We welcome all women with open arms, and defer to trans women in issues of particular relevance to them.

"We hope this incident serves as a reminder for all our future candidates of the importance of being informed about issues of oppression. We will continue to work to ensure the party fights for inclusive feminism, and that all our candidates and members are briefed on the issues of all women."

Green Surge

The Green Party is growing at a phenomenal rate while UKIP's popularity looks set to peak very soon. By the general election we should be easily the third largest party in England & Wales! And yet we are still excluded from the leaders' television debates. Sometimes it seems as if the BBC is the official UKIP broadcasting service!

As the New Statesman puts it:

"(Green Party) membership could soon exceed that of Ukip. The latest figures, compiled by Adam Ramsay of OurKingdom, put the Greens' total membership at 40,879, just 635 behind Ukip (whom the broadcasters have, of course, invited to the debates). He calculates that "at the current rate of growth, the Greens will overtake Ukip within a week, and be ahead of the Lib Dems before polling day ".

The party's membership has more than doubled since September when it stood at 20,000. By contrast, Ukip's growth rate has slowed, with the party gaining just 2,514 members since June. The most recent figure for the Lib Dems puts membership at 44,576, a year-on-year rise but still well down on its 2010 level of 65,038."

Of course, as everyone knows now, we're already ahead of the Lib Dems. 

People are starting to wake up!