No blogging for the last two days as I was too busy out on the campaign trail and helping to address letters to non-British and non-Irish EU citizens who are voting in the European elections in London - this city being the most international in the EU. I have also written an article for The Irish World newspaper - the main newspaper for the Irish community in the UK - about the European elections and why the Irish should get out and vote Green on June 4th, for reasons other than it being our national colour.
Yesterday was the national launch of the Green Party's European election campaign and I just managed to pick up the little there was about it from the BBC on their website.
But details of the party's European manifesto are here. http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2009-05-14-launch.html
One of my colleagues at work who is actually a card carrying member of the Labour Party was saying that she was considering voting Green this time, so I brought her in a copy of our mini manifesto. Let's hope that many people like her are thinking the same way and judging by the reception which MPs from both the Lib Dems and Labour received on last night's Question Time on BBC they might be.
The problem is that parties such as the BNP may be the main recipients of this feeling of "a plague on all your houses". Peter Hitchens, whose views on politics are a million miles from mine, was talking last night on This Week about the country experiencing "a Weimar moment." I certainly don't think that we are there yet but there can be no doubt that the antics and venality of our elected representatives has led to a real feeling that politicians cannot be trusted and this is extremely dangerous for democracy. So I will be going along today to join the Daily Mirror's Campaign Bus at South Bank University in Southwark to give out leaflets for Hope not Hate, the campaign against racism and the BNP with trade unionists and political activists from a number of other parties ranging from Respect to Labour.
Details of events in other arease are here http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/
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