General Election 2010 - Your Candidate
James Greenwood has been selected as the Green Party candidate for the imminent General Election.
He says:
The Green Party has ben warning of the problems we face for more than 30 years, and been consistently ahead of the other parties. The problem is that the main parties occupy the same patch of political wasteland - and show absolutely no sign of the nerves required to take some very nasty decisions. The Green Party doesn't promise more, we promise less.
But I think the Forest can cope – we have an inventive and skilled population, great communities with an inherent resilience. But it is going to be tough. We need to invest in new and established methods of manufacturing, design, building, engineering, food production, distribution, diplomacy - that can give us jobs, houses, security - long-term value and benefit - but investing means sacrifice, and that means sacrifice on top of the terrible cost of the last few decades of casino capitalism, which has seen wealth ever more concentrated in the hands of a few.
We believe in localism – that Foresters are the best people to decide on the future of the Forest, and that decisions on health, planning, housing should be made by people who live here.
We believe in health over false, credit-driven wealth. We believe in conservation over consumerism.
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"James Greenwood with Caroline Lucas, Green Party Leader"
What the Forest of Dean constituency needs is a real backbench MP to fight the Forest's corner at every opportunity.
The only wasted vote is a vote you don’t believe in. Vote Green.’
James Greenwood, 45, runs a business, raising a family and a flock of sheep in the Forest, where he has lived since he was 30. Before that he worked as a banker in London and rode around the world on horses, including considerable time spent in Afghanistan and Iran.
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