The Green New Deal – Unleashing a Green Economic and Social Revolution. This is a comprehensive ten-year plan ambitious enough to tackle climate and ecological breakdown at the scale and speed set out by science. It will deliver a fast and fair transformation of our economy and society, renewing almost every aspect of life in […]
Read More… from Green Party Manifesto for 2019 General Election
Diana Toynbee and Ellie Chowns are our Parliamentary candidates. Here is our Manifesto Diana says: “I’m delighted to be giving voters in Hereford and South Herefordshire a chance to vote for a fairer greener society. We all want a healthy, safe future, but our public services, democracy and countryside are under threat and real action […]
North Herefordshire Green Party selected Ellie Chowns as its prospective parliamentary candidate at a constituency meeting in Leominster last week. Dr Chowns, of Canon Frome near Ledbury, the mother of two teenage sons, first contested the North Herefordshire seat for the Greens at the 2017 general election. Later the same year she won a Herefordshire […]
Read More… from ELLIE CHOWNS RE-SELECTED AS NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE
THANK YOU so much for your support, your activism, and your votes. I feel really proud of what we’ve achieved in North Herefordshire. We got 5.5% of the vote – one of the highest Green vote shares nationally, and more than three times the national Green average of 1.6%. Although we lost some votes, the […]
There has been much debate locally and on social media about tactical voting and progressive alliances. Greens have stood down in quite a few seats nationally where there is a clear challenger to the Tories, but this has not been reciprocated by other parties apart from in Brighton. There is no clear challenger in Hereford […]
Read More… from On tactical voting – General Election 2017, note date
Ellie Chowns, Green Party candidate for North Herefordshire at the 2017 general election, was on BBC1 Midlands Question Time on 30th May. You can watch the episode here. […]
Green Party parliamentary candidates issue an eve-of-poll warning that Herefordshire’s future could be at stake if voters fail to “rein in” the Conservatives. “Today’s Conservatives have forgotten how to conserve, they are failing to look after what is best about our county,” claim Diana Toynbee and Ellie Chowns. “Current Tory policy could lead to the […]
I’m campaigning on four key issues here in North Herefordshire. I believe we need to: Reverse the devastating Conservative cuts to local services; Rethink how we treat the environment; Remodel our economy so that it works for everyone; Reform our broken political system. 1: Reverse cuts to local services Our local services have been cut […]
Read More… from Stand up for what matters in North Herefordshire
Dr Ellie Chowns, our candidate for North Herefordshire writes… I campaigned for Remain on the streets of Ledbury and Hereford last year, and I believe that Brexit is a serious mistake. It will cause many years of disruption to our economy, will limit opportunities for our children and young people, and is highly likely to […]
I sympathise with the desire of Polly Ernest (‘Get together’, HT letters, 5 May) and many others to see progressive parties unite around common ground and fight to oppose counterproductive austerity, growing inequality, environmental threats and extreme Brexit. Indeed, the Green Party has been leading the push for electoral alliances against a deeply unfair voting […]
