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Greens to stand in 574 seats in England and Wales 

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Image of the Green Party's Carla Denyer on BBC Question Time.
Image of the Green Party’s Carla Denyer on BBC Question Time.

Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party, said: 

“The Green Party is proud to announce that in this election we will have candidates standing in 574 seats in England and Wales. 

“All over the country voters will have the opportunity to vote Green and vote for real hope and real change instead of the half measures and broken pledges on offer from The Conservative and Labour. 

“We will be putting our manifesto to voters next week with practical solutions to the cost-of-living crisis, building new affordable homes, protecting our NHS from creeping privatisation and cleaning up our toxic rivers and seas. 

“If elected, Green MPs will push the next government for bold action to achieve the real changes that are needed to confront the big challenges our country faces. 

“This is a historic moment and the first time we’ve had this many candidates. It reflects the incredible journey we’ve been on over the past five local elections in which we’ve increased our number of councillors nearly five-fold.” 

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7 Labour Councillors quit party over Faiza Shaheen deselection and ‘institutional racism’

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https://leftfootforward.org/2024/06/7-labour-councillors-quit-party-over-faiza-shaheen-deselection-and-institutional-racism/

“This purging of loyal members in favour of subservient candidates reflects a party more concerned with power than principles.”

The row over Labour’s last minute deselection of general election candidates continues to rumble on. In a new development, seven Labour Councillors in Slough have quit the party over, among other things, the decision to block Faiza Shaheen from standing as a Labour candidate.

In a letter published on June 3, the seven Councillors cite a number of reasons for their decision including concerns over the democratic processes in the Labour Party. They go on to write that the deselection of Shaheen and the treatment of Diane Abbott “highlight the institutional racism within the party”.

They added: “This purging of loyal members in favour of subservient candidates reflects a party more concerned with power than principles. Slough [Constituency Labour Party], predominantly composed of BAME members, has faced threads of deselection for speaking out against injustices in Gaza and criticising Israel.”

Their letter concludes by saying: “We have exhausted every party mechanism to ensure our residents’ concerns were heard at both local and national levels. In light of these insurmountable barriers, we, the rank-and-file members, are left with no option but to resign. We must stay true to our values and conscience, even if the party we once believed in has abandoned them.”

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https://leftfootforward.org/2024/06/7-labour-councillors-quit-party-over-faiza-shaheen-deselection-and-institutional-racism/

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