Alan's Green Thoughts

Readers, the result of the local by-election from yesterday which had Green Party candidates was as follows: St Albans DC, Marshalswick South (2 seats, average votes and vote share of candidates noted): Conservative 657 (33.5%, -5.1%), Liberal Democrat 492 (25.0%, +5.8%), Labour 359 (18.3%, -4.4%), Green 308 (15.7%, +5.5%), UKIP 148 (7.5%, -1.7%). All changes are since May 2014. It is clear that even with only one local by-election in England and Wales so far in 2015 that had Green Party candidates standing, the Green surge is already starting to take effect. It is also meaning that there are more Green Party PPCs across the UK than ever before. Tomorrow is an important housing march in London, as I have mentioned before-and I would like to say that a land value tax is better than a mansion tax for taxing the rich and dealing with our nation's housing crisis because wealthy property owners in London (and in a few other affluent areas in the UK) are already beginning to split

Readers, it is now just 99 days until the fateful day for Britain of 7 May 2015. In light of this news, here is a current list of Green Party prospective parliamentary candidates across the nation-there are now over 350 in place UK-wide so far :) (NB: English constituencies are highlighted in black text, Scottish constituencies in blue, Welsh constituencies in red, and Northern Irish constituencies in dark green) (Lists have been gleaned from www.yournextmp.com and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At91c3wX1Wu5dFkzTjFrRmJRN3F6ODBTTEs4NGFhcUE  ;please note that both these are publicly online) First-time contenders-welcome: Constituency:                                                 Name of candidate: Aberavon                                                           Jonathan Tier Altrincham and Sale West                           Nick Robertson-Brown Amber Valley*                                            John Devine Arundel & South Downs