{news} Fw: USGP-INT UK Greens set sights on Westminster

[Justine McCabe]

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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4315625.stm
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> Greens set sights on Westminster
> BBC News
> March 3rd, 2005
> 
> The Green Party has opened its spring conference by claiming it will 
> gain seats at Westminster at the general election, expected in May.
> 
> Joint principal speakers Caroline Lucas MEP and Councillor Keith Taylor 
> will rally the party's troops with a joint speech from a "podium made 
> for two".
> 
>  The pair will also unveil the party's election slogan "Real Choice for 
> Real Change" in Chesterfield on Friday.
> 
>  The Greens claim they could get five MPs elected in the coming election.
> 
> 
>  Speaking as delegates gathered in Derbyshire, Cllr Taylor said: "The 
> Green Party received over a million votes in the European elections and 
> - at least in a few constituencies - voters could now elect a real 
> alternative to the warmongering and deception of the Labour Party."
> 
>  Voters in the Brighton Pavilion constituency elected a Green MEP in 
> 2004, pushing Labour into third place.
> 
>  "If the people of Brighton vote the same way again, they will elect 
> the first Green MP to Parliament, and once there the Green Party will 
> change the face of Parliamentary politics for good," Cllr Taylor added.
> 
>  The Greens have elected representatives in the Scottish Parliament, 
> Welsh Assembly and London assembly, but a seat at Westminster has so far 
> eluded them.
> 
>  After the joint speech by the party's principal speakers, the 
> conference will hold panels on public services, fair trade and climate 
> change.
> 
>  The conference runs until Friday.
> 
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