Greens could take council seats if you vote Green on Thursday

Most people are not going to bother to vote on Thursday. This is both a shame and a very risky protest. If few people vote then the wrong people can get elected. Vote to clean up politics and make positive changes by voting Green in both the local and County Council elections.

Well before the current scandals broke we made a freedom of information request to get the details of the county councillor travel expenses. We now know the 62 charged over £91,000 in mileage allowances. We asked for details of the most costly councillors trips and have been told that this is being counted as a 2^nd Freedom of Information request. When we find out how Cllr Heatley spent over £8,500 on travel we will make it very public.

When we started planning for the election our hope was to win a seat in each town in Warwickshire. We are now a serious threat to the old parties in many wards. UKIP are not standing in local elections in Nuneaton & Bedworth. The Lib Dems have vanished in the area with just 3 standing in the Borough.  The one Lib Dem who is standing in the Abbey ward is trying to use the trick of “only the Lib Dems can beet the BNP”. In the Abbey ward the BNP do not have a chance. The paper candidate for the BNP is from Bedworth and has done no leafleting. If he is like the BNP candidate last year he will not even show up for the count.

We are also expecting to do especially well in the Whitestone ward.

Green party candidate for whitestone, Laurel Brindley said

“You may have read in recent news that the Tory Councillor for Whitestone claimed more than £8,500 in travel expenses, which came out of our taxes. That‘s enough fuel to take him nearly all the way around the world! Considering that he is the environmental leader for Warwickshire County Council, I think that we can all agree that this extensive claim is unacceptable.”