Adrian Ramsay :: Green Party Deputy Leader :: MP candidate for Norwich South

Adrian's achievements

Successful in elections

Adrian has been a councillor since he was 21, and is now Leader of the largest group of Green Party Councillors in the country.

Adrian was Election Campaign Manager when Norwich Green Party gained its first council seats in 2002.  Since then, Adrian has played a key role in increasing Green representation on Norwich City Council from two to thirteen Councillors, as well as adding two Green County Councillors to represent the city at County level.

In the 2008 elections, the Green Party became the second party in Norwich (just two seats behind Labour). Adrian is the first Green Party Councillor to become the Leader of the Opposition on a local authority.

Adrian is also Parliamentary Candidate for the Norwich South target parliamentary constituency. In this year’s local elections, the Greens obtained 33% of the vote across Norwich South - three thousand votes ahead of Labour.

This is the highest percentage that the party has ever gained across a Parliamentary constituency and, if repeated at the next General Election, would mean Adrian unseating former Home Secretary Charles Clarke and becoming one of the first Green MPs.

A committed campaigner

Adrian has a strong commitment to campaigning, and to using his elected position to support the wider green and social justice movements in achieving their aims.

As Deputy Leader of the Green Party, Adrian would continue to campaign on these and other issues. 

Making a difference as a City Councillor:

Adrian has secured a commitment to more renewable energy and greater energy efficiency in new developments in Norwich.

He is working with local trade unions to bring privatised council services back in house.

He is playing a leading role in a successful (but ongoing) community campaign against a Tesco store on a key local shopping street.

He helped lead a successful local campaign to stop a waste incinerator in Norwich.

He joined local campaigners to save some of Norwich's threatened local Post Office branches and in the process highlighted the Government’s lack of commitment to local services.

Adrian drafted the council motion that resulted in Norwich becoming a Fair Trade city.

He actively supported the the successful local campaign against the Government’s attempts to privatise council housing.

Supporting a wide range of campaigns:

Adrian supported the local Amnesty International campaign to highlight human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay.

He campaigned with Friends of the Earth against a new shopping mall for Norwich and, when it opened, continued to highlight the need to support Norwich's independent and local shops and businesses.

He worked with local university students in the campaign against top-up fees, getting a motion passed by the City Council.

Adrian was a leading supporter of the local campaign against foie gras (and in the process highlighted the problems with factory farming in general) by getting a motion passed by the City Council.

He spoke at the launch of a local organisation (Norwich Food Web) set up to promote healthy and environmentally friendly food to children.

He helped organise a local meeting to highlight human rights abuses in West Papua.

For more information about Adrian's work as a local councillor and Parliamentary candidate please visit the Norwich Green Party website.