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Opinion: No more casual flings

By Simon de Deney | Wed 28th May 2014 - 1:46 pm

One of our candidates, telling last Thursday, was told by his Green party counterpart that this particular ward, Clissold, was the Green Party’s one target in the whole of London. They had volunteers coming to Hackney from places as far flung as Orpington and Grimsby. So, how did they do? Well, they didn’t beat Labour, but they pushed us into third place. Clearly where they work, they win. Well, come second, anyway.

Only here’s the thing. Apart from the one ward, Cazenove, in which we kept all our councillors, the Green …

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged future party strategy and hackney | 28 Comments

A day of light and ideas

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 28th May 2014 - 9:51 am

These last five days have been among the worst I have known in my almost 31 years of being a part of this wonderful party. I’d pretty much prepared myself for winning only a couple of MEPs. Even those limited ambitions proved to be wildly optimistic. Seeing massive Labour fiefdoms recreated in London and Manchester. t’s been bruising, brutal and fraught. Seeing friends and colleagues lose their jobs and seats through no fault of their own is heartbreaking. And to lose them to wrecking, scapegoating UKIP types …

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged european elections 2014 and local elections 2014 | 52 Comments

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London’s football pitch crisis is freezing out disabled children. We must stop treating inclusion as a charity luxury (Jean-François Burford)
Is kindness what we stand for? (Josh Matthews)

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