The Green Party

political programme

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Very few of us now lead lives of happiness, peace, and contentment.

We live and work in toxic systems where we have to work endless hours just to survive. We exploit our natural environment to the point of devastation, disrupting ecosystems and driving multiple other species to extinction.

We spend our days disconnected and dissatisfied, distanced from our ability to make our own choices about housing, work, or healthcare.

With the onset of coronavirus and climate breakdown, we're starting to see the cracks show. And we need to change things urgently.

We can no longer afford to sustain a system based on inequality and unfairness. The Greens are the only political party in England and Wales committed to changing this system, and regenerating our planet alongside our own lives.

We are not a traditional party

Traditional parties rely on cynicism and voter disengagement.

  • We want to make politics work better for everyone.
  • We want to empower local people to make meaningful change to their own communities.
  • We want to address the systems that abuse human beings in the same way as our natural environments.

Our policy programme is built from policies proposed and voted on by our members:

  • A Green New Deal - for energy, for housing, and to address the climate crisis while creating new and better jobs across our nation.
  • Voting reform - to help represent the 56% of the country's voters who didn't vote for the current Government.
  • NHS reinstatement to increase funding, and roll out better care provision for those suffering from mental and physical ill health.
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Save the Environment

We live on an amazing planet, rich in resources and able to sustain an incredible diversity of life. But we cannot take for granted it will always be this way.

All around us are the warning signs of environmental crises. This century already has seen 16 of the hottest 17 years ever recorded in human history. We are in the midst of what scientists have called the sixth mass extinction. Hurricanes and wildfires are spreading, seas are rising and wildlife is in decline.

Whilst other political parties talk about the environment, they have repeatedly failed to make the urgent changes needed to protect our natural world, to safeguard us from climate breakdown and to preserve the future. They're often lobbied and funded by the very corporations that cause devastating to our welfare and environment.

The Green Party sets an agenda informed by science and social policy, taking no money from damaging businesses, and campaigning for fair and representative democracy.

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Liberate our Working Lives

The economy is there for our benefit – not the other way round. It doesn’t always feel like that though and we need to take action to get things back in balance

We can build an alternative to the current system, an economy which delivers for the people who make it. An economy that delivers more free time to spend with friends and family, which ensures greater financial security for everyone, alongside the opportunity to live larger lives.

The Green Party seeks to liberate our working lives.

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End Discrimination

At the heart of the Green Party is a belief that everyone is equal, that all lives have intrinsic value, and that personal life choices are deserving of dignity and respect.

Whatever your race, sexuality, ability or gender identity, this country should be a place where you feel safe and able to flourish.

We need a society that recognises and accommodates the needs of all, that celebrates diversity, actively dismantles oppression, and supports people whenever or however they need it.

The Green Party will work to end discrimination across housing, employment, and healthcare, taking an anti-prejudice stance wherever we are able, and holding ourselves accountable in uplifting people from all places within our rich society.

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Challenge Privilege

Privilege is power. The power of well connected groups and individuals to dictate what happens in our society, and the power to keep things that way.

Privilege is all around us. From vested interests that use our broken electoral system and corrupt party funding process to steer policy in the direction they want, to politicians who feel they have a right to rule because of the school they went to.

Reducing privilege increases the power of ordinary people – of all of us. As the establishment shrinks, democracy grows.

The Green Party will challenge privilege.

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Embed Collective Kindness in Our Society

Our schools, hospitals, rail links and bus routes aren’t merely services; they are the roots that sustain our society. They are roots that need to be nurtured so that they in turn can nurture us.

We envision a country underpinned by wellfunded, locally led public services providing care and support for all - a society rooted in kindness.

The Green Party would embed collective kindness in our society - essential for post-Covid recovery.

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Green Our Land

The land on which we all depend is under assault – from greedy developers, from dirty technology, from a tide of plastic. It’s an assault driven forward by corporations and the privileged few, putting profit over people and the places they love.

It’s time for a counter-attack. It’s time to not just protect forests, but to plant new ones, not just to fight fracking but to ban it forever, not just to tackle litter, but to eliminate all waste.

The Green Party will green our land, for us and for generations yet to come.

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Protect our animals

Policy making around animals should be designed to protect them against cruelty.

All too often it isn’t. Animal testing, hunting for sport, factory farming, destroying their habitats for development – all these destructive and short-sighted practices have flourished under successive Governments.

We don’t think it’s right to exploit the other species we share this planet with and are prepared to take on the vested interests that fuel animal cruelty.

The Green Party will protect animals.

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Champion International Friendships

Our country can be a force for good in the world - working with other nations to combat shared threats like climate change, and to build a more prosperous, happier future for everyone.

We want to build a country that is at ease with itself and its neighbours, which builds bridges not walls.

And we desperately need a Government that understands that closer global cooperation, rather than ever increasing spending on world-destroying weapons, is the best way of protecting its people.

The Green Party will champion international friendships.

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Deliver Quality of Life for All

Our current system allows vested interests and corporations to degrade that wellbeing in the name of profit. Increasingly communities are fighting back – standing up for their right to breathe clean air, to enjoy green space, and to live in warm, affordable housing. We don’t think that it is too much to ask. We want to build a future where these are accepted rights, not distant hopes.

The Green Party seeks to deliver quality of life for all.

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Unleash Our Creative Power

The creative urge in all of us builds businesses, upholds communities and enriches all our lives through the arts.

Nourishing that urge, and the small business owners, artists, students and professional pioneers that embody it, will build a better future for our country.

For other parties supporting creativity is afterthought – for us it is a priority. Creativity is key to building an economy that works for individual and communities, not just huge corporations.

"This political programme isn’t like other parties’ manifestos, it has not been squeezed through focus groups and stripped down according to the latest polling. This programme is a vision of a better world - and it’s one which is based on a politics and economics that would work not just for now, but for the long term."

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