Rupert's Read

Parti Tunisie Verte                                                                   Tunis, le 23 octobre 2012 Séminaire du Parti Tunisie Verte et du Parti Vert Anglais et Gallois Le 20 et 21 octobre 2012 s’est tenu à Mahdia (Tunisie) un atelier de travail organisé par le Parti Tunisie Verte et le Parti Vert Anglais et Gallois. Cet atelier a été animé par deux camarades délégués du Parti Vert Anglais et Gallois, des responsables des fédérations, des membres du bureau national et du coordinateur national du Parti Tunisie Verte. Ce séminaire a été soutenu par la fondation « Westminster » pour la démocratie. Un débat démocratique et franc s’est engagé entre les présents sur les thèmes suivants :  La vision d’avenir du « Parti Tunisie Verte », La structuration des partis et leur rapport avec les autorités politiqu...

I’ll be doing a photocall with @NatalieBen at the start of this event:  The Green Party society at UEA are hosting a speaker event with the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Natalie Bennett. Natalie Bennett was elected leader of the Green Party in September 2012, having previously worked as a journalist during which time she edited the international newspaper The Guardian Weekly.  Natalie will be delivering a talk on fair pay at 3.30pm in Congregation Hall 01.20 on Wednesday 31st October.

The Green Party is the first to announce its candidates for the 2014 Euro-elections. The Green Party's list of candidates for the 2014 European elections in the East of England will be officially announced this weekend at the Green Party's Regional Annual General Meeting in Cambridge . The list as follows:   Dr. Rupert Read of Norwich, Co-ordinator of Eastern Region Green Party, is 1 st on the list - followed by C'llr. Mark Ereira-Guyer of Suffolk County Council; Jill Mills of St. Alban's, who   represents Eastern Region on the Green Party's governing body; C'llr. Ash Haynes of Norwich, one of the 15 Norwich Green City Councillors; Eroica Mildmay, renowned anti-Tesco campaigner from Sheringham; Marc Scheimann of Luton, long-time Green campaigner; & Robert Lindsay, former Times journalist, of Babergh in Suffolk.   Leading the Green Party's list of candidates here in the East of England is Rupert Read, who in 2009...

    Why should the public purse fund a two-party political elite?     A new report that I've co-authored, on party funding, argues that the problems of a failing political system need urgent attention and that only then can the question of equitable party funding be resolved.     The report, published by the independent think tank Green House  (that I chair), is being launched on 13th October, at a conference in London timed to mark the exact 40 th anniversary of the meeting that led to the creation of Britain 's Green Party. Strangled by the Duopoly argues that if we take the needs of voters as our starting point, instead of simply serving the existing party system, this will take us beyond isolated discussions of how parties are funded to the wider crisis of UK democracy – including questions of electoral system, participation-rates and corporate power: ·          ...

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