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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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