Green Euro Press Launch 8th May
The Wales Green Party will be launching their Euro campaign on May 8th at The Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 11.00 am, Room 2. There will be refreshments. Pippa Bartolotti, Lead Euro Candidate and...
View ArticleWales Green Party Leader's Campaign Launch Speech
“This is an election of shifting sands, and the outcome is not a done deal. Only one party has the strength and focus to deal with the most pressing issues of our generation – climate change and the...
View ArticleWales Green Party Refuses BBC Debate
The Wales Green Party has declined an invitation from the BBC Wales to debate at a radio hustings to be held on Wednesday 13th May at 11.30. They have taken this step to highlight the negligence of...
View ArticleImmigration 'facts' versus the Real Future - Your Vote
When all the scientists on the International Panel for Climate Change agree that the planet is on course for a 4 degree warming - caused in the main by human activity, and this warming will be...
View ArticleI’m a Politician Get Me Out of Here
Here’s a thing. The UK will stay in the EU after May 22nd – with or without UKIP MEP’s. Even if we did leave the EU some day, we would still have to trade on EU terms, and leaving the EU within the...
View ArticleThe Queens Speech in a more hopeful world
The annual Queen's Speech sets out lawmaking topics for the following 12 months of government. This is what it would say for Wales in a more hopeful world: “The Queen’s Speech will clear away years of...
View ArticleFracking Under Your Home - Queen's Speech
In today’s Queen’s Speech, it was announced that the Westminster government is hoping to change the law so that fracking companies can drill under your house without your permission. Shale rock (the...
View ArticleInaugural Pembrokeshire Green Party Meeting on 25th June
Pembrokeshire Green Party members will meet on Wednesday 25 June at 7.30 pm for the first meeting in several years. This inaugural Pembrokeshire meeting will see the selection of the first General...
View ArticleSurplus Renewable Energy in Wales
The Wales Government is lacking inspiration and vitality. In Wales we have access to more than twice the renewable energy we can use. The implications for jobs, security and prosperity seem to be...
View ArticleM4 - Wales has become a paradise for polluters
Today it has been announced that the unpopular Black Route as a relief for the M4 at the Brynglas tunnels is to go ahead. Pippa Bartolotti, Wales Green Party leader said, ”What an appalling decision....
View ArticleGaza - Ending the Siege
The Wales Green Party is steadfast in its support for the rights of Palestinians. Greens all over the world uphold the basic human rights of freedom of speech, security, food, water, and in the case...
View ArticleDevolution is not a gift. It is a responsibility
Greens are not especially concerned by national boundaries, but we do believe that decisions should be taken closest to the people who will be most affected, and that sometimes, but not necessarily,...
View ArticlePippa Bartolotti: Gaza, NATO, Scottish Independence, Cannabis Legalisation...
Wales Green Party Leader, Pippa Bartolotti speaks at Green Party (of England & Wales) conference in Birmingham on a number of current political issues as well as the 2015 General Election. Don't...
View ArticleJim Scott: Wales Green Party speaks at CND Drape The Drones International...
Jim's speech in full: Good afternoon friends and comrades, and thank-you to Drape the Drones and CND Cymru for organizing this wonderful, colourful event today on this international day of peace and...
View ArticleLuddite at the End of the Tunnel?
It is not right to force people into low wages and long hours in order to maintain a decent standard of living, and it is not right to pretend that ‘economic growth’ or ‘higher productivity’ will see...
View ArticleThe Path to Perpetual War
On the train last night a young man said he was pleased the UK would be bombing Iraq. When I asked why he said “because otherwise they will be bombing us.” Where he got that idea from I do not know,...
View ArticleCardiff Man is 20,000th Member of Green Party
Green Surge: Membership of the Green Party up 46% in 2014 • Membership passed 20,000 at 4.00pm yesterday • Young Greens' 100% growth this year is ‘testament to a sea-change going on in politics’ •...
View ArticleSwansea Green Party are to contest the Uplands by-election
Swansea Green Party has announced that Ashley Wakeling will be standing in the upcoming Uplands by-election. In response to this decision he said, 'Swansea Green Party has grown by over 50% in the...
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