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[[Caroline Lucas]], [[Green Party]] MEP wrote on population reduction:{{QB|  
 
[[Caroline Lucas]], [[Green Party]] MEP wrote on population reduction:{{QB|  
:We are the only major political party to have a detailed policy position on population, which includes non-coercive measures to ensure global population reflects the Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity in the long term: boosting sex education, increasing the availability of [[contraceptives]], promoting poverty reduction and female empowerment.<ref>Letter to the Guardian, quoted at https://climateandcapitalism.com/2008/03/02/too-many-people-population-control-and-climate-change/</ref>}}
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:We are the only major political party to have a detailed policy position on population, which includes non-coercive measures to ensure global population reflects the Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity in the long term: boosting sex education, increasing the availability of [[contraceptives]], promoting poverty reduction and f==Green Party manifesto==
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[[File:They're_Off!.jpg|300px|left|thumb|Battle bus pass for the [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]] manifesto]]{{QB|
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:Millions of people in our country are feeling insecure and deeply worried about the future.
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:We live in one of the richest countries on the planet, yet nurses are using food banks, our children’s schools are crumbling, a roof over our heads is all too often unaffordable, and hospital and dentist appointments are like gold dust.
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:Meanwhile, the [[climate emergency]] continues to accelerate. Scientists warn that we are currently on track for global temperatures to rise by at least 2.5°C, far beyond levels at which humanity can safely survive.
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:Our promise to you is that all this can change. We can create a greener, fairer country together – one in which we are all safer, happier and more fulfilled.
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:It will take MPs prepared to make brave, principled choices on your behalf. And it will take the kinds of policies set out in this manifesto, for which elected Green MPs will fight hard every single day for you.
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:Voting Green on 4th July is your way of showing you believe a fairer, greener world is possible – and is worth fighting for.
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:[[Carla Denyer]] and [[Adrian Ramsay]], [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]] Co-Leaders<ref>''[https://greenparty.org.uk/about/our-manifesto/ "Green Party 2024 General Election Manifesto"]''</ref>}}
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Revision as of 21:46, 25 June 2024

Group.png Green Party of England and Wales  
(Political partySourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Green Party 2024.jpg
FormationJuly 1990
HeadquartersThe Biscuit Factory, Unit 201 A Block, 100 Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG
LeaderLeader of the Green Party of England and Wales

The Green Party of England and Wales is a main political party in the UK and is fielding more than 350 candidates in the UK/General election/2024 on Thursday 4 July 2024.

Co-leaders of the party since 1 October 2021 are Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay.

GE2024 Interview

Novara Media interview with Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski

At the start of the UK/General election/2024 campaign, Zack Polanski – deputy leader and spokesperson for the Greens – was interviewed at length by Ash Sarkar of Novara Media:

00:00 Intro
00:59 The Green Party’s Media Coverage
07:44 How are The Greens Policies Different?
13:40 How Would The Greens Fund Their Pledges?
17:54 Dealing with Claims of Antisemitism
22:45 Do The Greens Want Leftist Ex Labour MPs?
30:27 Why Were The Greens so Anti-Corbyn?
33:42 The NIMBY Problem
42:24 HS2
48:19 Nuclear Power
50:45 Internal Party Democracy[1]

GE2024 candidates

Here is the full list of all Green Party candidates standing in England and Wales at the July 2024 General election:

  • Aldershot – Ed Neville
  • Aldridge-Brownhills – Claire Nash
  • Altrincham and Sale West – Geraldine Coggins
  • Alyn and Deeside – Karl McNaughton
  • Amber Valley – Matt McGuiness
  • Arundel and South Downs – Steve McAuliffe
  • Ashfield – Alexander Coates
  • Ashford – Mandy Rossi
  • Ashton-Under-Lyme – Lee Huntbach
  • Aylesbury – Julie Atkins
  • Banbury – Aaron Baker
  • Barking – Simon Anthony
  • Barnsley North – Tom Heyes
  • Barnsley South – Trevor Mayne
  • Barrow and Furness – Lorraine Wrennall
  • Basildon and Billericay – Stewart and Goshawk
  • Basingstoke – Michael Howard-Sorrell
  • Bassetlaw – Rachel Sara Reeves
  • Bath – Dominic Tristram
  • Battersea – Joe Taylor
  • Beaconsfield – Dominick Pegram
  • Beckenham and Penge – Ruth Fabricant
  • Bedford – Ben Foley
  • Bermondsey and Old Southwark – Susan Hunter
  • Bethnal Green and Stepney – Phoebe Gill
  • Beverley and Holderness – Jonathan Stephenson
  • Bexhill and Battle – Jonathan Kent
  • Bexleyheath and Crayford – George Edgar
  • Bicester and Woodstock – Ian Middleton
  • Birkenhead – Jo Bird
  • Birmingham Edgbaston – Nicola Payne
  • Birmingham Erdington – Karen Trench
  • Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley – Zain Ahmed
  • Birmingham Hodge Holl and Solihull North – Imran Khan
  • Birmingham Ladywood – Zoe Challenor
  • Birmingham Northfield – Rob Grant
  • Birmingham Perry Barr – Kefentse Dennis
  • Birmingham Selly Oak – Jane Baston
  • Birmingham Yardley – Roxanne Green
  • Bishop Auckland – Sarah Hannan
  • Blackburn – Denise Morgan
  • Blackley and Middleton South – Dylan Lewis-Creser
  • Blackpool North and Fleetwood – Tina Rothery
  • Blackpool South – Ben Thomas
  • Blaydon and Consett – Richard Simpson
  • Blyth and Ashington – Steve Leyland
  • Bognor Regis and Littlehamption – Carol Birch
  • Bolsover – David Kesteven
  • Boston and Skegness – Christopher Moore
  • Bournemouth East – Joe Salmon
  • Bournemouth West – Darren Jones
  • Bracknell – Emily Torode
  • Bradford East – Celia Hickson
  • Bradford South – Matthew Edwards
  • Bradford West – Khalid Mahmood
  • Braintree – Paul Thorogood
  • Brent East – Nida Alfulaij
  • Brent West – Bastôn De’medici-jaguar
  • Brentford and Isleworth – Freya Summersgill
  • Brentwood and Ongar – Rj Learmouth
  • Bridgwater – Charles Graham
  • Bridlington and the Wolds – Gillian Leek
  • Brigg and Immingham – Amie Alissa Watson
  • Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven – Elaine Hills
  • Brighton Pavilion – Sian Berry
  • Bristol Central – Carla Denyer
  • Bristol East – Ani Stafford-Townsend
  • Bristol North East – Lorraine Francis
  • Bristol North West – Mary Page
  • Bristol South – Jaime Breitnauer
  • Broadland and Fakenham- Jan Davis
  • Bromley and Biggin Hill – Caroline Sandes
  • Bromsgrove – Talia Ellis
  • Broxborne – Owen Brett
  • Broxtowe – Teresa Needham
  • Buckingham and Bletchley – Amanda Onwuemene
  • Burnley – Jack Launer
  • Burton and Uttoxeter – Anna Williams Westwood
  • Bury North – Owain Sutton
  • Bury South – Michael Welton
  • Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket – Emma Buckmaster
  • Calder Valley – Kieran Turner
  • Camborne and Redruth – Catherine Hayes
  • Cambridge – Sarah Nicmanis
  • Cannock Chase – Andrea Muckley
  • Canterbury – Henry Stanton
  • Carlisle – Gavin Hawkton
  • Carshalton and Wallington – Tracey Hague
  • Castle Point – Bob Chapman
  • Central Devon – Gill Westcott
  • Central Suffolk and North Ipswich – Dan Pratt
  • Chatham and Aylseford – Kim Winterbottom
  • Cheadle – Alexander Drury
  • Chelmsford – Reza Hossain
  • Chelsea and Fulham – Mona Crocker
  • Cheltenham – Daniel Wilson
  • Chesham and Amersham – Justine Fulford
  • Chester North and Neston – Nicholas Brown
  • Chester South and Eddisbury – Stephen Davies
  • Chesterfield – David Wadsworth
  • Chichester – Tim Young
  • Chingford and Woodford Green – Chris Brody
  • Chippenham – Declan Baseley
  • Chipping Barnet – David Farbey
  • Chorley – Mark Tebbutt
  • Christchurch – Susan Graham
  • Cities of London and Westminster – Rajiv Sinha
  • City of Durham – Jonathan Elmer
  • ClactonNatasha Osben
  • Clapham and Brixton Hill – Shao-Lan Yuen
  • Clwyd East – Lee Lavery
  • Clwyd North – Martyn James Hogg
  • Colchester – Sara Ruth
  • Colne Valley – Heather L Peacock
  • Congleton – Richard McCarthy
  • Corby and East Northamptonshire – Lee Forster
  • Coventry East – Stephen Gray
  • Coventry North West – Esther Reeves
  • Coventry South – Anne Patterson
  • Crewe and Nantwich – Te Ata Browne
  • Croydon East – Peter Underwood
  • Croydon South – Elaine Denise Garrod
  • Croydon West – Ria Patel
  • Dagenham and Rainham – Kim Arrowsmith
  • Darlington – Matthew Snedker
  • Dartford – Laura Edie
  • Daventry – Clare Slater
  • Derby North – Helen Hitchcock
  • Derby South – Sam Ward
  • Derbyshire Dales – Kelda Boothroyd
  • Dewsbury and Batley – Simon Cope
  • Didcot and Wantage – Sam Casey-Rerhaye
  • Doncaster Central – Jennifer Rozenfields
  • Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme – Paul Garrett
  • Doncaster North – Tony Nicholson
  • Dorking and Horley – Lisa Scott
  • Dover and Deal – Christine Oliver
  • Droitwich and Evesham – Neil Franks
  • Dudley – Zia Qari
  • Dulwich and West Norwood – Pete Elliott
  • Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard – Sukhinder Paul Hundal
  • Ealing Central and Action – Kate Crossland
  • Ealing North – Natalia Kubica
  • Ealing Southall – Neil Reynolds
  • Earley and Woodley – Gary Shacklady
  • Easington – Stephen Ashfield
  • East Grinstead & Uckfield – Christina Coleman
  • East Ham – Rosie Pearce
  • East Hampshire – Richard Knight
  • East Surrey – Shasha Khan
  • East Thanet – Stephen Roberts
  • East Wiltshire – Emily Herbert
  • East Worthing and Shoreham – Debbie Woudman
  • Eastbourne – Michael Munson
  • Eastleigh – Ben Parry
  • Edmonton and Winchmore Hill – Luke Balnave
  • Ellesmere Port and and Bromborough – Harry Gorman
  • Eltham and Chislehurst – Sam Gabriel
  • Ely and East Cambridgeshire – Andrew Cogan
  • Enfield North – Isobel Whittaker
  • Epping Forest – Simon Heap
  • Epsom and Ewell – Stephen McKenna
  • Erewash – Brent Poland
  • Erith and Thamesmead – Sarah Barry
  • Esther and Walton – Maciej Pawlik
  • Exeter – Andrew Bell
  • Exmouth and Exeter East – Oliver Davey
  • Fareham and Waterlooville – Baz Marie
  • Farnham and Bordon – Claire Matthes
  • Faversham and Mid Kent – Hannah Temple
  • Feltham and Heston – Katharine Kandelaki
  • Filton and Bradley Stoke – James Nelson
  • Finchley and Golders Green – Steve Parsons
  • Folkestone and Hythe – Marianne Brett
  • Forest of Dean – Chris McFarling
  • Frome and East Somerset – Martin Dimery
  • Fylde – Brenden Wilkinson
  • Gaisborough – Vanessa Smith
  • Gateshead Central and Whickham – Rachel Cabral
  • Gedling – Dominic Berry
  • Gillingham and Rainham – Kate Belmonte
  • Glastonbury and Somerton – Jon Cousins
  • Gloucester – Adam Shearing
  • Godalming and Ash – Ruby Tucker
  • Goole and Pocklington – Angela Stone
  • Gorton and Gardner – Amanda Gardner
  • Gosport – Tony Sudworth
  • Grantham – Anne Gayfer
  • Gravesham – Rebecca Hopkins
  • Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes – Ed Fraser
  • Great Yarmouth – Trevor Rawson
  • Greenwich and Woolwich – Stacy Smith
  • Guildford – Sam Peters
  • Hackney North & Stoke Newington – Antoinette Fernandez
  • Hackney South & Shoreditch – Laura-Louise Fairley
  • Halesowen – Emma Bullard
  • Halifax – Martin Hey
  • Hamble Valley – Kate Needham
  • Hammersmith and Chiswick – Naranee Rutara-Rajan
  • Hampstead and Highgate – Lorna Jane Russell
  • Harborough, Oadby and Wigston – Darren Woodiwiss
  • Harlow – Yasmin Gregory
  • Harpenden and Berkhamsted – Paul De Hoest
  • Harrogate and Knaresborough – Shan Oakes
  • Harrow East – Sebastian Newsam
  • Harrow West – Rupert George
  • Hartlepool – Jeremy Spyby
  • Harwich and North Essex – Andrew Canessa
  • Hastings and Rye – Becca Horn
  • Havant – Netty Shepherd
  • Hayes and Harlington – Christine West
  • Hendon – Gabrielle Bailey
  • Henley and Thame – Jo Robb
  • Hereford and South Herefordshire – Diana Toynbee
  • Herne Bay and Sandwich – Thea Barrett
  • Hertford and Stortford – Nick Cox
  • Hertsmere – John Humphries
  • Hexham – Nick Morphet
  • High Peak – Joanna Collins
  • Hinckley and Bosworth – Cassie Wells
  • Hitchin – William Lavin
  • Holborn and St Pancras – David Stansell
  • Honiton and Sidmouth – Henry Gent
  • Hornchurch and Upminster – Melanie Collins
  • Hornsey and Friern Barnet – Fabio Vollono
  • Horsham – Catherine Ross
  • Houghton and Sunderland South – Richard Bradley
  • Hove and Portslade – Sophie Broadbent
  • Huddersfield – Andrew Cooper
  • Huntingdon – Georgie Hunt
  • Hyndburn – Mohammed Shabir Fazal
  • Ilford North – Rachel Collinson
  • Ilford South – Syed Siddiqi
  • Ipswich – Adria Pittock
  • Isle of Wight East – Vix Lowthion
  • Isle of Wight West – Cameron Palin
  • Islington North – Sheridan Kates
  • Islington South and Finsbury – Carne Ross
  • Jarrow and Gateshead East – Nic Cook
  • Keighley and Ilkley – John Wood
  • Kenilworth and Southam – Alix Dearing
  • Kensington and Bayswater – Mona Adam
  • Kettering – Emily Federowycz
  • Kingston and Surbiton – Debojyoti Das
  • Kingston Upon Hull East – Julia Brown
  • Kingston Upon Hull North and Cottingham – Kerry Harrison
  • Kingston Upon Hull West and Haltemprice – Kevin Paulson
  • Kingswinford and South Staffordshire – Claire Mcilvenna
  • Knowsley – Graham Wickens
  • Lancaster and Wyre – Jack Lenox
  • Leeds Central and Headingley – Chris Foren
  • Leeds East – Jennifer Norman
  • Leeds North East – Louise Jennings
  • Leeds North West – Mick Bradley
  • Leeds South – Ed Carlisle
  • Leeds South West and Morley – Chris Bell
  • Leeds West and Pudsey – Ann Forsaith
  • Leicester South – Sharmen Rahman
  • Leicester West – Aasiya Bora
  • Leigh and Atherton – Amelia Jones
  • Lewes – Paul Keene
  • Lewisham East – Michael Herron
  • Lewisham North – Adam Pugh
  • Lewisham West and East Dulwich – Callum Fowler
  • Leyton and Wanstead – Charlotte Lafferty
  • Lichfield – Heather McNellis
  • Lincoln – Sally Horscroft
  • Liverpool Garston – Muryam Sheikh
  • Liverpool Riverside – Chris Coughlan
  • Liverpool Walton – Martyn Madeley
  • Liverpool Wavertree – Tom Crone
  • Liverpool West Derby – Maria Coughlan
  • Loughborough – Hans Zollinger-Ball
  • Louth and Horncastle – Robert Watson
  • Lowestoft – Toby Hammond
  • Luton North – Ejel Khan
  • Luton South and South Bedfordshire – Edward Carpenter
  • Macclesfield – Amanda Iremonger
  • Maidenhead – Andrew Cooney
  • Maidstone and Malling – Stuart Jeffrey
  • Makerfield – Maria Deery
  • Maldon – Isobel Doubleday
  • Manchester Central – Ekua Bayunu
  • Manchester Rusholme – Thirza Amina Asanga-Rae
  • Manchester Withington – Sam Easterby-Smith
  • Mansfield – Philip Shields
  • Melksham and Devizes – Catherine Read
  • Melton and Syston – Alastair McQuillan
  • Meridan and Solihull East – Sheshendra Sheshabhatter
  • Mid Bedfordshire – Cade Sibley
  • Mid Buckinghamshire – Greg Smith
  • Mid Cheshire – Mark Green
  • Mid Derbyshire – Gerald Kinsella
  • Mid Dorset and North Poole – Benjamin Pantling
  • Mid Leicestershire – Tony Deakin
  • Mid Norfolk – Ash Haynes
  • Mid Sussex – Deanna Nicholson
  • Middlesborough and Thornaby East – Matthew Harris
  • Middlesborough South and East Cleveland – Rowan McLaughlin
  • Milton Keynes Central – Frances Bonney
  • Milton Keynes North – Alan Francis
  • Mitcham and Morden – Pippa Maslin
  • Morecambe and Lunesdale – Gina Dowding
  • New Forest East – Simon King
  • New Forest West – Anna Collar
  • Newark – Michael Ackroyd
  • Newbury – Stephen Masters
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne Central and West – John Pearson
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne East and Wallsend – Matthew Williams
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne North – Sarah Peters
  • Newcastle-Under-Lyme – Jennifer Hibell
  • Newton Abbot – Pauline Wynter
  • Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor – Jack Hughes
  • Normanton and Hemsworth – Ashton Howick
  • North Bedfordshire – Philippa Fleming
  • North Cornwall – Lance Symonds
  • North Cotswolds – Chloe Turner
  • North East Derbyshire – Frank Adlington-Stringer
  • North Herefordshire – Ellie Chowns
  • North Norfolk – Liz Dixon
  • North Shropshire – Mike Isherwood
  • Norwich North – Ben Price
  • Norwich South – Jamie Osborn
  • Nuneaton – Keith Kondakor
  • Peterborough – Nicola Day
  • Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley – Olli Watkins
  • Richmond Park – Chas Warlow
  • Rochdale – Guy Otten
  • Rochford and Southend East – Eli London
  • Rossendale and Darwen – Bob Bauld
  • Selby – Arnold Warneken
  • Skipton and Ripon – Andrew Brown
  • Southend West and Leigh – Tilly Hogrebe
  • South Cambridgeshire – Oliver Fisher
  • South Leicestershire – Mike Jelfs
  • South Suffolk – Jessie Carter
  • Stoke-on-Trent North – Josh Harris
  • Stroud – Pete Kennedy
  • Sussex Weald – Rachel Millward
  • Swindon North – Andy Bentley
  • Swindon South – Rob Hebden
  • Tatton – Nigel Hennerley
  • Telford – John Adams
  • The Wrekin – Patrick McCarthy
  • Twickenham – Chantal Kerr-Shepherd
  • Waveney Valley – Adrian Ramsay
  • Wells and Mendip Hills – Peter Welsh
  • West Suffolk – Mark Eriera-Guyer
  • West Worcestershire – Natalie McVey
  • Witney – Andrew Prosser
  • Worcester – Tor Pingree
  • Worsley and Eccles – David Jones
  • Yeovil – Serena Wootton[2]

Population policy

Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP wrote on population reduction:

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Employee on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointed
Zack PolanskiDeputy LeaderSeptember 2022

 

Party Members

PoliticianBornDiedDescription
Jonathan Bartley16 October 1971UK Green Party politician.
Tim Beaumont22 November 19288 April 2008British politician and an Anglican priest. Bullingdon Club. Transgender and euthanasia activist. Epstein's black book.
Sian Berry9 July 1974Was leader of the Green Party of England and Wales (2018-21) and hopes to follow Caroline Lucas as MP for Brighton Pavilion in July 2024
Jo BirdLiverpool councillor who was expelled from the Labour Party becomes Green Party candidate
Janet Bloomfield10 October 19532 April 2007Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1990s; member of the British-American Project
Andrew CanessaUK academic and Dean in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Essex.
Ellie Chowns7 March 1975
Carla DenyerSeptember 1985
Caroline Lucas9 December 1960Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion
Natasha OsbenUK Green Party 2024 candidate.
Zack Polanski2 November 1982
Jonathon Porrit6 July 1950UK environmentalist and population reduction activist who wants to halve the population. Attended the 1999 Bilderberg meeting, and in 2000 was appointed Chair of Tony Blair's Sustainable Development Commission (SDC)
David Powell
Adrian RamsayAugust 1981

 

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