‘Caroline Lucas’ Archive

Ethical investment

We are not resting in our pursuit of Barnet’s dodgy investment policies. This week we’ll be writing to them for an update on their investments in tobacco – last year it was announced they had £8million carcinogenic investments. For a long time now we have been pressing the council on its lethal investments in weapons [...]

Greens target victory in Highgate ward by-election

If can help in the campaign contact Alexis at alexis.rowell@greenparty.org.uk The Green Party has chosen former Liberal Democrat councillor and Camden Eco Champion, Alexis Rowell, as their candidate for the Highgate by-election on Thursday 15th September. The Green Party’s Maya de Souza topped the poll in Highgate ward in last year’s council elections and the [...]

Vote ‘Yes’ in the AV referendum

Please go out and vote ‘Yes’ in Thursday’s referendum on bringing in the Alternative Vote electoral system. Don’t think about Clegg – do it for Caroline Lucas and to get more Greens into parliament. We know from proportional voting in London mayoral elections that when people have two choices a large percentage are ready to [...]

Barnet Greens on the march!

Barnet Greens were among a giant total of 400,000 people – the biggest protest since the invasion of Iraq – who marched through central London on March 26th to protest against the Con-Dem coalition’s proposed public spending cuts.   Gardi Vaswani, who headed the Barnet Greens delegation, said: “We met people from the Green Party [...]

Barnet Greens earn 20,000 votes but still denied seats

Barnet Green Party would like to thank everyone in the borough who voted Green in the national and local elections last week and we would particularly like to thank the dozens of people who helped out, some of whom contacted us out of the blue. The number of Green votes in the Barnet borough elections [...]

Caroline Lucas interviewed on the Andrew Marr Show

Yesterday Caroline Lucas was interviewed by Andrew Marr. Here is the interview in full