Get the Green Party on the ballot for Brent East and Brent West. Support our crowdfunder

 

Brent is virtually a one party state, and the Labour candidates for the new parliamentary seats of Brent East and Brent West go into the general election on 4 July with huge notional majorities.  We have already seen at the national level the arrogant behaviour of the two big parties when they feel unchallenged.  

Now we need to fundraise £1,000 by Monday 9 June to fund the deposits to get our Green Party candidates Nida al-Fulaij and Baston De’Medici Jaguar on the ballot paper in Brent East and Brent West respectively.  

Help us make sure that the conceit of the two big parties can be challenged by the ordinary citizen and voter at General Election 2024.  

The Green Party has a very positive policy platform of Real Hope and Real Change for a fairer, greener country: fairer, greener homes, schools, childcare, transport and water.  We take the climate emergency seriously and will defend nature and wildlife.  Unlike Labour, we are committed to reforming the voting system to deliver proportional representation.  And, unlike Labour, we will defend our NHS, supporting staff and investing in facilities. 

Every vote cast for the Green party counts towards the "Short money" provided to support parties, so that every vote cast for the Greens in Brent will help to support what we hope will be a new group of Green MPs in the House of Commons in July 2024.  

But Brent voters will not be able to help new Green MPs in this way, if the Green Party is not on the ballot paper on 4 July.  Brent Green Party has no big corporate or oligarch donors, and we depend entirely on people like you. 

P.S. Because we're a political party 

We're required to run electoral register checks from people making donations above £500, and if you donate over £1,500 during a year, we are required to let the Electoral Commission know, who will make this available on their website. All donations go to general Green Party funds. 

Promoted by Martin Francis and Sebastien Marchadour on behalf of Baston de'Medici Jaguar and Nida al-Fulaij, Brent Green Party, 23 Saltcroft Close, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 9JJ. 

Donate here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/get-the-green-party-on-the-ballot-paper-in-brent

Don't let other parties scare you into voting for them - Vote Green in all three ballots tomorrow

 

🥀 The other parties are trying to scare you into voting for them.

💚 But you can vote - and must - vote for what you believe in.

🗳️ #VoteGreen tomorrow on all three ballots. pic.twitter.com/JBNYQqPgvS

— Zoë Garbett (@ZoeGarbett) May 1, 2024

The Green Party has never had any truck with the profit motive in health care

 

Responding to comments by the Shadow Heath Secretary saying that under a Labour government investment in the NHS would be dependent on reform and that there would be an increased role for the private sector [1], co-leader of the Green Party, Carla Denyer, said: 

Wes Streeting says that if the NHS doesn’t change, it will die. But it is inadequate funding that has left our NHS in a poor state of health, not lack of reform.  

Between 2010 and 2019 the UK had a lower level of capital investment in health care and 18% lower average health spending than 14 EU countries [2]. 

So to say that the public is paying a heavy price for failure is an insult to hard-working NHS staff, who are doing their level best despite being overworked and underpaid. It is the failure to invest adequately and pay staff properly that is at the root of dissatisfaction with the NHS. 

The public agrees. They don’t want endless reforms; neither do they share the Conservative or Labour appetite for creeping privatisation. They want the current model to work and to see the NHS available to everyone free of charge and primarily funded through taxes [3]. A tax on the super-rich billionaires and multi-millionaires can provide the funds needed to fix our cherished NHS.    

The Green Party has never had any truck with the profit motive in health care and will continue to push for a fully publicly funded NHS.

Notes 

[1] Wes Streeting warns NHS that there'll be no additional funding without 'major surgery' under Labour | The Sun 

[2] How does UK health spending compare across Europe over the past decade? - The Health Foundation  

[3] Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2023 | Nuffield Trust 

Introducing Nida Al-Fulaij the Green Party candidate for Brent and Harrow GLA constituency

 

Nida Al-Fulaij, the Green Party candidate for the Brent and Harrow GLA constituency, works for a trust that aims to protect endangered species in the UK and globally. Her role involves addressing the biodiversity crisis and associated issues of climate change, food security, land use and access to healthy water.

 

Her experience as a local council candidate enabled her to speak to local people about the issues than concerned them and meet like-minded green voters. In her job Nida works with other NGOs to submit responses to government proposals and works with different communities that, whilst having different outlooks, can work for common goals. These are skills that she will bring to the GLA if elected.

 

Nida has given numerous media interviews including for BBC local radio, Sky News, Countryfile and BBC London News.

 

Nida is a passionate believer in human rights and has joined in recent demonstrations in support of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

 

Alongside other Green candidates Nida is standing for:

 

·      Cheaper rents

·      Warmer homes

·      Accountable policing

·      Climate action

·      Properly funded youth services

·      Affordable fares

·      Increase the real Living Wage for London

·      Respecting diversity so all communities thrive