Caroline Lucas
'Hoon is the real vandal'
Posted by Caroline Lucas - 09 December 2008 09:18
UK Green Party leader Caroline Lucas gives her take on this week's runway protest by direct action group Plane Stupid which saw 52 cancelled flights at Stansted
Environment Secretary Ed Miliband should be careful what he wishes for. No sooner had he told the Guardian that more popular mobilisation on climate change was needed, than the activist group Plane Stupid kindly obliged.
Using tried and tested tactics from the book of non-violent civil disobedience to make their protests heard far and wide, campaigners took to the runway at Stansted first thing on Monday morning to protest ...
A Living Wage for Britain
Posted by Caroline Lucas - 16 October 2008 15:45
During Blog Action Day, the Green Party advocates for raising the minimum wage to a living wage to tackle poverty in the UK
I'm writing this late on Wednesday - Blog Action Day 2008 - and bloggers all over the world are posting on the subject of poverty. The poverty crisis in less developed countries - and Europe's crucial place in that as one of the causes and one of the main potential solutions - forms a large part of my work as an MEP. I've crossed swords many times with the ...
A Green New Deal?
Posted by Caroline Lucas - 07 October 2008 10:32
In her newstatesman.com blog, Green Party leader Caroline Lucas says it's time to make finance the servant of the economy and gives her vision for coping with the meltdown
After the bursting of the credit bubble in August, 2007 Alastair Darling repeatedly assured us that Britain’s ‘economic fundamentals’ are sound. The implication was that the ‘real’ economy was quite distinct from the bubble economy inhabited by bankers, short-sellers and hedge fund managers. Consumers were given the impression that a firewall existed between them and the bursting credit bubble.
It now turns out that there is no firewall; even the ...
Taking a lead
Posted by Caroline Lucas - 01 September 2008 15:38
The race is on to be the first ever leader of the Green Party. Here candidate Caroline Lucas MEP sets out her vision and explains her party's place in British politics
I've applied for a new job, and next weekend the selection panel will deliver its judgement. I'm standing to be elected as the first ever leader of the Green Party, and on 6 September the result of a ballot of every party member will be announced at our autumn conference.
It would definitely be the biggest challenge I've ever taken on - but it’s also a vital opportunity to ...
Provocative policing
Posted by Caroline Lucas - 07 August 2008 14:04
It's hard to see the police approach to this year's climate camp as anything other than a bid to provoke breaches of the peace writes Green Caroline Lucas
This first of my regular newstatesman.com blogs finds me between my campaign for Brighton Pavilion and protesting in Kingsnorth, where I’ve been heavily involved in attempts to get the police to pull back from their campaign of harrassment of the camp.
Everyone who enters the site is being searched. Police officers are taking anything away that “could be used for illegal activity”, with efforts being made to strip ...
