Rupert's Read

Click to see the Norwich North Clean Campaign Pledge   and find out who has and who hasn't joined me in signing it! http://www.clean-campaign-pledge.net/ 

  The invitation to sign a pledge to run a clean campaign in the by-election, proposed by Rupert Read, the Green Party candidate in Norwich North, has set the other parties thinking.   Conservative candidate Chloe Smith has decided that she'll sign. Lib-Dem candidate April Pond has decided that she won't. Labour candidate Chris Ostrowski says the pledge (full text below) doesn't go far enough and proposes an extra pledge of his own.   Mr Ostrowski says candidates should pledge that if they are elected, their work as an MP should be their only job.   The Green candidate, Rupert Read, is happy to accept that suggestion and is prepared to sign that pledge.   He has made the same undertaking in a leaflet which is already being delivered in the constituency. See it here on page 4. http://www.norwichgreenparty.org/greenview/p/greenview_07.pdf   Dr Read says: "We are starting to hear about the many MPs who earn thousands through second j...

The Green Party candidate in the Norwich North by-election has signed a voluntary pledge to keep the campaign clean and is challenging candidates of other parties to join him. The Conservative Party candidate has already agreed to do so. A formal response from Labour and UKIP is awaited. The LibDems have refused to sign the pledge. The invitation was extended by Dr Rupert Read, who believes there is no need to resort to the kind of personal attacks which some parties try to level against rival candidates. There has been a positive response from Chloe Smith, the Conservative candidate. Rupert Read said: "It is because we disagree hugely with the Tories, and other parties, about real issues, and because we want this election to be about those issues, that we are putting forward this statement. A clean campaign is not one without disagreements; on the contrary, it is a campaign in which the real and major disagreements between the candidates are not obscured by lies,...

The latest high-profile visitor to the Norwich North by-election campaign is Jean Lambert MEP, who will be in the city tomorrow (Tuesday) in support of Rupert Read, the Green Party candidate in the election on July 23rd. Photo/interview opportunity: At 14:00, Jean and Rupert will be taking news of the campaign to members of the Norfolk and Norwich Association for the Blind, by joining in their regular current affairs discussion group at NNAB Headquarters in Magpie Road, on the edge of the constituency. Members of the media are welcome to meet them there. Before that, around 12:00, Jean will be canvassing with Green councillors and joining them for a working lunch. Members of the media are also welcome at these events, by arrangement. Jean Lambert is the Green Party spokesperson on social affairs. She has represented the London area as a Green member of the European Parliament for ten years. She was named MEP 2005 for her work on justice and human rights. Jean says: “As voters reject tr...

TONY JUNIPER , until recently Director of Friends of the Earth, on  MAKING THEM LISTEN: HOW PARLIAMENT WILL BE TRANSFORMED BY THE GREENS Weds 8th July 2009, 7.30pm, the Belvedere Community Centre, Admission free. Meeting chaired by C'llr. Rupert Read, Green Party candidate in the Norwich North by-election. ***** PETER TATCHELL , world-renowned human-rights activist, and the man who twice tried to citizens-arrest Robert Mugabe, on WHY NOW IS THE TIME TO LEAVE LABOUR AND JOIN THE GREENS . Weds 15th July 2009, 7pm, the Norman Centre, Mile Cross [Bignold Road]. Admission free. Meeting chaired by C'llr. Rupert Read, Green Party candidate in the Norwich North by-election.

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