Chancellor’s Autumn Statement for Friends and Family
In a nutshell we could say that the Autumn Statement was: more foodbanks, a free zimmer with every pension, promotion of pollution, and keep spending on Trident. There was nothing to help those caught...
View ArticleBurner is a Bleak Deal
News today that the contentious Cardiff Incinerator, built by the multinational company Viridor, has been officially signed off by Cardiff Council on behalf of the five local authorities of Monmouth,...
View ArticleIs this how we will greet the New Year?
Is this how we will greet a New Year, to the raucous sound of racism, inequality and poverty, and the mindless applause which spurs them on? Or can we set aside the politics of division, of class and...
View ArticleThe Crowded Ironies of Climate Change
Arctic sea ice has diminished enough to allow drilling for oil in the Arctic, where the ice used to be before the seas were warmed by increased CO2 emissions, thus forming a vicious cycle of...
View ArticlePress Release - Wales Green Party Alarmed by Prince’s Trust Report
The Wales Green Party has raised its concerns at a report issued by The Prince’s Trust of Wales about young people and mental health. The Princes Trust report stated that twenty one per cent of young...
View ArticleFracking bribe is a bad deal, say Greens
Pippa Bartolotti, Wales Green Party Leader said today: "The government is now desperately resorting to bribing local residents in a desperate attempt to impose fracking on our communities. This money...
View ArticleOpen letter to First Minister, Carwyn Jones. Why Wales should say no to...
Carwyn Jones First Minister, National Assembly for Wales 13th January 2014 Dear Carwyn, I understand that the Welsh Government is under great pressure to declare its hand on fracking, and therefore...
View ArticleWales Green Party votes in New Deputy
Wales Green Party has returned a new Deputy Leader, Anthony Slaughter who lives in Penarth near Cardiff, in their annual leadership ballot. Anthony is a garden designer who has worked in the area for...
View ArticleThe UK Parliament: Pass a law to make Ecocide a criminal offence in the...
Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link: http://goo.gl/sB4qPD Here's why it's important: Ecocide is the extensive damage to, or destruction or loss of ecosystems to the extent...
View ArticleCorporate Cannabis Dealers Raise Millions
A UK company, G W Pharmaceuticals, which markets ingredients extracted from the cannabis plant has recently raised $101.1 million on the US NASDAQ market. It has been illegal for ordinary people to...
View ArticleDon’t short-change the NHS, say Greens
Healthcare is now a very technical business. This means that a lot of machinery is involved and a lot of specialised medical staff is needed. The problem in Wales is that we are not attracting enough...
View ArticleGreens call for De-criminalization of Cancer Treatment
News that cancer will cost countries in the European Union £107bn a year, according to the first EU-wide analysis of the economic impact of the disease, has just been released. The study recently...
View ArticleContinuous Economic Growth is a Treacherous Concept say Greens
All over the world Greens and scientists are watching with dismay at the extreme weather conditions descending on land and sea with ever more destructive frequency. Pippa Bartolotti, Wales Green Party...
View ArticleExtreme weather? This is what we need to do:
Extreme weather? We all know how we got here - Generations of fighting against nature instead of working with her. The stone age did not end for lack of stone, and the fossil fuel age will not end for...
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Paying the Polluter to Pollute
The time for debating the existence of climate change has long passed. We now urgently need to debate what we are going to do about it, and act. The average temperature has not been 2C above...
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Climate Thugs are Costing the Earth
The IPCC are due to release their next big report on climate change, and leaks so far tell us the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are going much further in their warnings than ever before....
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Walking Serenely to the Boardroom
The Greens in Wales have put Women’s Rights at the top of their agenda – why? Since the recession of 2008, women’s progress in almost every sphere - from pay to prospects - has gone into reverse. It’s...
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Legalise Cannabis, say Greens
The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs is meeting this week to discuss possible changes in the regulation of drugs thus far deemed illegal. In March 1961, the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs was...
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Climate Change Must be the New Heart of Energy Policy, say Greens
CLIMATE change will spiral out of control, worsening poverty, inequality and conflict – unless we put renewables and energy conservation at the heart of energy policy, the Wales Green Party Leader,...
View ArticleLeave it in the ground! say Greens
Recent news that there might be up to a trillion tons of coal under Welsh seas should not get us clamouring to dig it out. Scientists agree that if we are to stop the worst effects of a warming earth...
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