Jill Stein’s name appeared on nearly 40 general election ballots in 2012 and the Green Party’s Ralph Nader had ballot access in forty three states and the District of Columbia in 2000. Stein used Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday to court supporters of the Bernie revolution on the night Hillary Clinton declared herself the historic victor in the Democrat primary for President of the United States.
Contents: Austria deeply split between far-right and left-liberal candidates; Austria’s election part of a world-wide move to the right with deep polarization
Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Asa Romson, the joint head of the Green Party, announced her resignation on Monday, dealing a blow to the strained centre-left coalition government.
The leader of the Scottish Green Party has claimed the UK Independence Party is institutionally racist and implied that anyone who does not accept transgenderism should be blocked from public office. Patrick Harvie (pictured), formally the ‘co-convener’ of the Scottish Greens and a Member of
The Swedish Muslim Green party member who quit because of backlash after he refused to shake a woman’s hand, blames racism for the row. Green Party politician Yasri Khan quit the party after he made an appearance on Swedish television and
A senior security expert has spoken out following the high-profile resignation of a government minister and the defenestration of others from Sweden’s Green Party, expressing his concern that it may have been successfully infiltrated by Islamist entryists. Speaking to Swedish
In the name of “progress”, women can no longer join the Green Party’s youth or feminist wings. If you are a member of those political party groups and happen to have two X chromosomes, you will henceforth be know as a ‘non-male’,
A senior Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the German Green Party has called for an end to referendums on issues “not suitable” for direct democracy because they threaten the very existence of the European Union (EU). Rebecca Harms MEP (pictured above), a
On the day the Green Party launches its Remain campaign for the European Union (EU) referendum, a poll that appears to show environmental professionals overwhelmingly support membership of the politico-economic bloc has been published. However, the statistics behind the poll
A lawsuit filed on September 26, 2015 in Washington D.C. (and its eventual outcome) may turn out to be the most important event of the 2016 presidential election.
Martin Wirth, an Occupy Denver activist who had run for State Senate on the Green Party ticket in 2014, allegedly shot three Colorado Sheriff deputies on Wednesday, killing one.
The brother of Democratic US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders (pictured) was named as the new health spokesman for England and Wales’s Green Party Thursday, two days after his sibling’s New Hampshire primary win. Larry Sanders, who is 81 and has
An anti-marijuana campaign in Australia featuring a human-sized lumbering stoned sloth acting foolishly has backfired and become the brunt of jokes on social media. Launched this week using the slogan “You’re worse on weed”, it attempts to warn teenagers of
“No one is illegal” runs the German Green Party’s slogan. But one of their number, Mayor Boris Palmer, is not so sure. Critics accuse him of “scaremongering,” but serving as mayor of Tübingen for the last nine years, Palmer has
Each year for the last eight years I have convened a panel to compile a list of the Top 100 Most Influential People on the Left. This year our panel was comprised of a Member of Parliament, a local government leader,
Norway’s Green Party has floated proposals to open up a migrant reception centre – in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, where polar bears outnumber people. The idea was first mooted by Norway’s anti-immigration People’s Party, but they quickly made
A leading light in Europe Écologie – Les Verts, the French Green Party, has quite his political home of 20 years blaming his colleagues’ “shift to the left”. François de Rugy, French National Assembly Member for the western département of Loire-Atlantique and co-president
A former Green Party councillor who was exposed as having an unexpected hobby – trophy hunting – has rebuffed his critics, defending the sport and robustly backing Walter Palmer, the man who shot Cecil the lion. For a party that claims to represent
The socialist NDP’s 2015 “Policy Book” contains a proposal to “enable all municipalities, provinces, and territories to implement a ban on handguns.” This follows many times its leader Thomas Mulcair has called for a registration of all firearms via a “gun registry,” ostensibly in the interests of public safety.
For fifteen years now I have believed that the folly of the Euro currency would break up the European Union. It was perfectly obvious to me that economic and monetary union between Greece and Germany could never work and that
Between 100 and 150 Green Party election candidates have been prevented from joining Britain’s Labour Party as it struggles to tackle infiltration by far-left activists. Labour insiders are increasingly worried that thousands of hard-left supporters may have joined in the
The Green Party has been flushed out of power in Brighton and Hove, losing more than half its seats on the south coast council. Labour now have the largest group on the council with 23 seats, but are five short
The Conservative Party once claimed to stand for the defence of our green and pleasant land against the predations of environmental fanatics. How things change. Such is the current mania within the party for ‘modernisation’, the Conservative-led Malvern Hills District
A large fire occurred yesterday at Hove Town Hall caused by a faulty solar panel on the roof of the building. No-one was hurt. Locals have been quick to take aim at the Green party with jibes over their record in office
Sitcom heavyweight Roseanne Barr shared her thoughts on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid Monday, but don’t expect any support from the former TV mom, as she made it perfectly clear she thinks Hillary is nothing more than “the same old s—t.”
Last November, during a TV altercation with Labour Leader Ed Miliband over his proposals for a Mansion Tax, former pop star Myleene Klass raged “You may as well just tax me on this glass of water. You can’t just point at
I never thought I would be writing this. However, having consulted both manifestos, it is only fair to admit that the Greens have spelled out a more detailed and reasonable energy policy than Labour. Labour’s stated energy policy is extremely
The Green Party has released its latest election advert and it may well be the worst attempt of the 2015 general election. It starts with a gap-toothed supporter talking about how the party is not a wasted vote. Then four
Fashion designer and eco-activist Vivienne Westwood has been ditched by the Green Party over allegations of tax avoidance. Westwood was due to appear as the headline speaker at a number of events in support of the party, but the Young Greens
In an apparent bid to make themselves completely unelectable, the Green Party revealed a new raft of “loony tunes” and “barmy” policy proposals at their annual conference this weekend. Their ambitions include extending human rights to animals, creating a ‘progressive’
The Green Party Leader, Natalie Bennett, has appeared on the Nick Ferrari show on LBC to talk about her party’s policies. However, she became badly unstuck when she was asked about the Green’s policy on social housing. Bennett appeared to
The story so far: devastated by universally appalling reviews of its dreadful farrago of lefty nonsense UKIP: The First Hundred Days, Channel 4 has reluctantly agreed to make another, counterbalancing political mockumentary, a much more realistic one this time, called
The Green Party has dropped two key policies after they failed to stand up to scrutiny by the media following a surge in public support for the party. Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has announced that British citizens would not,
The Greens have long been arguing that they were the fourth party in British politics above UKIP because they had had more success in domestic elections, specifically for councils. This message went into overdrive in 2010 when Caroline Lucas, former
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has said that the Queen would be given a council house under a Green government, adding that she would welcome an economic recession. In an interview with The Times, the Australian politician said her party
Britain’s only Green Party-led city council has again been pitched into turmoil thanks to a planned referendum on raising council tax by 5.9 percent – a measure that council leader Jason Kitcat insists must be enacted in order to balance
Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party, has told the Economist that living on benefits in the UK is worse than being poor in India, because in India everyone else is poor too. Ms Bennett has claimed that her words