Thank you for voting Green
08 June 2009
May I thank all those who voted Green in last weeks European Elections. 88244 people voted Green in the West Midlands, which is 16,000 more votes than we received at the previous European election.
Green votes across the UK went up by 44%, electing two Green MEPs. The Party was frustratingly close to gaining seats in so many regions, not least the North West where the Greens were just 5000 votes behind Nick Griffin. In the UK, the Greens made the most progress of the biggest six parties at the European elections in terms of increase in vote share and across Europe the Green group was the only group to increase its number of seats despite there being fewer seats in Parliament this time.
Debate about most policies and issues were largely wiped off the agenda by stories of sleaze in Westminster, which dominated the headlines and discouraged many from voting at all.
But society's problems won't go away any time soon with the policies of the Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems. We will continue to campaign for green economic policies to provide jobs, reduce carbon emissions and create energy security, as well as for political reform, discussion of which has been one good thing to come out of the Westminster revelations.
Felicity Norman
Green Party
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