2010 General election Candidates Who should I vote for 2010

Who should I vote for 2010

With the next election on the cards being a General Election for Westminster seats, we have 3 key parliamentary constituencies

Target Seats

Main Candidate

Caroline Lucas (MEP)

Brighton Pavillion and Green party leader.
In 2005, Greens scored a record 22% of the vote in Brighton and are on course to win our first seat next time. In 2007, the Green Party beat all the other partys in the constituency to win 30% of the vote and first place, and at the same time doubled our number of councillors on Brighton and Hove City Council.
For more info on Caroline see www.carolinelucas.com/

Adrian Ramsay (Councillor)

In Norwich South, our candidate is Adrian Ramsay, leader of the largest group of Green Councillors in the UK on Norwich City Council.
In both 2007 and 2008, the Greens received more votes than any other party in the local elections. If Norwich Green Party can repeat this in the General Election, Adrian will be able to unseat former cabinet minister Charles Clarke.
More about Norwich Greens and the campaign:
Norwich Green Party

Darren Johnson (London Assembly)

Lewisham Green Party
In Lewisham Deptford, London Assembly Member and Lewisham Councillor Darren Johnson is our candidate for the next general election. In 2005, this was our second highest result in the General Election and Darren gained 11% of the vote. Since then, we have gained five more councillors in the area and will be strong challengers next time.
For more information on Darren see:
www.darrenforlewisham.org.uk

LGBT Candidates

Andrew Gray

Green Party PPC (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate) for Newcastle upon Tyne East, Andrew (42) was born in Newcastle and has lived in Heaton for nearly 10 years. He works in a local library, where he also acts as a Trade Union caseworker and negotiator, in particular for hourly-paid (casualised/zero hours) staff. He has been involved in many community campaigns, including the BAN Waste citizens' select committee in Newcastle. He is an active CND member and helped blockade the nuclear bomb factory at Aldermaston this February. He is also an unpaid director of a not-for-profit software company and a keen allotment gardener. More information and pictures will be available at tyneside.sdf-eu.org

Joseph Healy

Green Party PPC (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate) for Vauxhall, London. Active trade unionist and works for a disability charity in Lambeth. Stood as a candidate in Prince’s Ward by election in June 2009 and was number 4 on the London list for the European election. Committed to opposing homophobic hate crime and to improving services and representation for the LGBT community in Vauxhall and Lambeth. Proud to be standing in London’s second ‘gay village’ which contains such famous artistic venues for the LGBT community as the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, which I have supported since the 1980s. Also as Vice Chair of the London Ambulance Service Patients Forum and a former trustee of the Positive Place, I am committed to improving the NHS and particularly sexual health services and services for those living with HIV/AIDS.

Darren Johnson (London Assembly)

Peter Tatchell

Human rights campigner and Green Party Spokesperson Green Party PPC (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate) for Oxford East
For more information on Peter see:
www.petertatchell.net/

Roy Vickery

Green Party PPC (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate) for Tooting, London,
Formerly a museum curator, Roy Vickery is a respected authority on the uses and folklore of native British plants. He also writes on Quaker and Green matters. With his background in natural history, he is concerned with caring for biodiversity and the environment: 'When the environment suffers, we all suffer, but the poor suffer most; at present the rich can still fly off to unspoiled places, the poor are left behind in a sterile concrete jungle.' He urges all politicians to concentrate on needs rather than wants, so that the living standards of the world's poorest are drastically and permanently improved.