Green Party

A new poll for the Green Party shows its General Election candidate on course to win in Brighton Pavilion, one of the party's top target seats along with Norwich South.

The result gives new confidence to the Greens’ local candidate, Adrian Ramsay, that local election vote share translates to General Election votes and that he can win the Norwich South seat from Charles Clarke.

According to the ICM Research opinion poll, Green candidate Caroline Lucas, the party leader, has a significant lead in the Brighton Pavilion constituency. The results show that she has the support of 35% of voters followed by the Conservatives on 27% and Labour on 25%. What’s more, 63% of Labour and Lib Dem voters in the sample said that they would vote Green if that party was best placed to stop a Conservative win. If voters carry through their intentions at the general election, the Greens would win the seat from Labour with a majority of almost 3,500 over the Conservatives.

There are interesting similarities between Brighton Pavilion and Norwich South. In both cities, the Green Party has thirteen city councillors. In the European elections last year the Green Party came top in the voting across the area corresponding to the respective parliamentary constituencies.

Adrian Ramsay, who is deputy leader of the Green Party, already knows that if people in Norwich South vote the same way in the General Election as they have in local elections over the past three years, he will win the seat, a victory which, on current trends, would mean the first two Green Party MPs going to Westminster.

References:

• www.greenparty.org.uk/news/icm-poll-puts-greens-ahead-in-target-westminster-seat.html
• news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2007/councils/html/ml.stm
• www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/downloads/bhcc/Results_for_website.pdf
• www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/poll-surge-suggests-greens-on-course-for-first-commons-seat-1863895.html

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Terence Dunning
Posts: 1

Former Lakenham Sports and Leisure Centre
Reply #1 on : Wed March 03, 2010, 22:34:40

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I heard Adrian speak at the UNISON AGM yesterday evening and was impresse. I was a member of Labour Party until the Iraq war and am now more disenchanted with that party. I have voted Green in recent elections.

My main point is to ask what Adrian Ramsey's position is on the above mentioned site regarding the City Council's consultation on the possible development of the Lakenham site. The Liberal Democrats have canvassed the views of those of us who live close by but I have heard nothing from the Green Party. It should be of special interest to the party as the City Council has desiganated this site as Urban Green Space and has not approved previous planning applications.
Lakenham has very few green spaces and it is essential that this site is preserved as such for the use of the community. I look forward to your response.