GREENS NAME RUPERT READ AS CAMBRIDGE CANDIDATE
Party Leader Natalie Bennett set for candidate news conference
The Green Party tonight (Fri) named the academic, author and campaigner Rupert Read as its candidate in Cambridge for next year's General Election.
There will be a first opportunity to question Dr Read on his new campaign when he appears at an introductory news conference at King's College on Monday (Oct 6th), introduced with a personal endorsement from Party Leader Natalie Bennett. The event will also reveal further high-profile endorsements for Dr Read's candidacy.
Alongside his work as Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Rupert Read is a former city councillor in Norwich, and already the Green Party's national spokesman on transport. He has been instrumental in helping to develop Green Party policy nationally. He said:
"I love Cambridge: probably the most 'networked' and 'thinking' city in Britain. Camb...
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Lord?
Porritt the prince's mate?
and Willetts?
I don't think it's philosophy driving politics. More like the privileged and favoured.
And they call Willetts 'two-brains'.
Yes, these are not un-'establishment' figures - but that doesn't mean they are not thinkers.