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Vote for Miriam in 2010
Your Green Party candidate for
Wakefield constituency is Miriam
Hawkins.
Miriam is 43 and works as a special
support worker for Students, mainly at
Leeds University.
She also assists craft students at
Manygates Centre, in Wakefield, and
serves as a simulated patient, helping
with the education of medical students
in Leeds, and around the area.
She presently acts as Secretary to
Wakefield Green Party, and stood
previously as a Green candidate in
Wakefield Rural ward.
The Key issues and the Green response:
• Pensions and care for older people.
The Green proposal is for a Citizen’s
Pension for all at a level of £170 per
week, to alleviate poverty and provide
a good standard of living, whilst
putting money back into the economy.
• A rebalanced economy with localised
jobs, a fairer financial deal with a
greater emphasis on mutual banks, post
offices and credit unions, tighter
financial regulation, and taxes raised
from high-earners, not job losses for
the lower paid. The 10 pence tax rate
should be re-instated as a fair
measure, and top earnings should
attract a 50% rate.
• A Green New Deal where an investment
package creates a million new jobs in
low-carbon industries, renewable, and
solar, wind and wave technologies, and
home insulation. This should create
work for craftsmen and women and put a
halt to youth unemployment, as we
employ more fitters, plumbers,
electricians and systems designers in
these fields. Spending money to employ
people makes sound economic sense.
• A Transport system which values
reliability, cleanliness and regularity
over a wasteful search for high-speed.
More money should be directed to
improving rail and bus links and
supporting community services such as
free city buses and essential hospital
links.
• A National Health Service which is
truly comprehensive in its application,
with both dentistry and optical care
being brought back into the system,
along with podiatry. Money invested now
will save more expenditure later.
However, the Green Party is still
opposed to water fluoridisation, as it
is a risky practice and constitutes a
form of “mass medication”.
Every
individual should be free to chose
their own form of dental treatment to
suit their own needs.
• A Transformation of the Political
system to ensure fairer representation
by the adoption of a proportional
method of voting, such as the Single
Transferrable Vote (STV) for
Parliament, and elections to the upper
House (of Lords). The system of
payments for MP’s expenses must be
simple, proportionate, and fair.
Remember, they work for you, not the
other way round.
• What don’t we want? We don’t want an
expensive and unnecessary replacement
for Trident, nor a further generation
of nuclear reactors, nor a nation-wide
ID system to track everybody. There are
a lot of ways to save money for a
better society, and these are just some
of them.
None of these issues will come to pass
unless you take the step of voting for
them.
Your Green Party candidate for
Wakefield constituency is MIRIAM HAWKINS
Vote for the Party which wants real
change, and real improvements: The
Green Party.
OFFICE OF CAROLINE LUCAS, MP FOR
BRIGHTON PAVILION
*** NEWS RELEASE ***
02 December 2011
GREEN MP NAMED BIGGEST INFLUENCER IN UK
POLITICS THIS YEAR
Green MP Caroline Lucas has been
recognised by a prestigious political
body as
the MP who has most influenced the
political agenda in 2011.
Since her election to the constituency
of Brighton Pavilion in 2010, the UK's
only Green MP has made a significant
impact through her work on a range of
issues - from putting pressure on the
Government to tackle fuel poverty and
drop
Trident, to campaigning for
Parliamentary reform and fairer rail
fares.
Lucas received the Political Studies
Association award for 'Influencing the
Political Agenda 2011' from Channel 4
News presenter Jon Snow at a packed
ceremony in Westminster this week.
Caroline Lucas said:
"I am honoured and delighted to collect
this award from the Political Studies
Association - and appreciate the
judges' recognition that having even
one Green
in Parliament can make a positive
difference."
The panel of judges at the Political
Studies Association said:
'Caroline Lucas has made unprecedented
steps forward in raising the profile of
the Green Party. The achievement of
winning a seat in Parliament under the
First-Past-The-Post electoral system
should not be underestimated.
"When considering these factors
alongside her role in influencing the
AV debate,
we felt she was a worthy winner of the
2011 award for Influencing the Political
Agenda."
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