Green Party

Caroline Lucas

Arrested for taking part in a demonstration at the Faslane nuclear base she has been a Green MEP for eight years and has appeared on programmes like BBC’s Question Time and Newsnight.

She has won plaudits including the Observer’s Politician of the Year and the RSPCA’s award for animal welfare.

She joined the party in 1986 and currently principal speaker.  She was elected as the first Green county

councillor in Oxfordshire in 1993 and has been selected to fight Brighton Pavilion at the next general election where if she wins and has been returned as an MEP her European seat would pass to whoever comes second on the Green list.

Keith Taylor

An environmental campaigner fighting against big  business  developments in Brighton, he joined the Green party a decade  ago. He worked with Caroline Lucas for five years as her regional liaison Officer. 

Elected  to Brighton and Hove City Council  in 1999, he has been the Green group’s convenor since 2001. 

He has  represented  the  party in  two general election campaigns.

Derek Wall

A vegetarian, economics lecturer, writer and journalist, he joined the Greens 27 years ago and is banned from every Tesco in Britain after taking part in a protest at one of the stores.

He has written six books on green politics, stood in many elections, and been a councillor. He does not travel by air.

He has taken direct action against animal abuse, GM, hunting, motorway building and military recruitment.

Miriam Kennet

A Green Party member for 30 years she created campaigning organisation, The Green Economics Institute, a European political foundation, operating in 47 countries, aiming to radicalise the green message round Europe and recruit new  members. A speaker around the south east and Europe, she has appeared on radio and TV and has published articles in journals including the Harvard Economics Review. She founded and edits the International Journal of Green Economics.

Her campaigning action includes closing the local Aldermaston nuclear pipeline..

She is a member of the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University where she trained in economics, environmental science and law. An environmental economics and policy lecturer at London University and politics researcher at Keele she has 30 years experience as a European businesswoman and is currently managing director of a European firm specialising in law, IT, Open Source

and IPR. Miriam traslates technical and legal French and German.

Jason Kitcat

A businessman, school governor and parent, he is active in the party locally and nationally and is Brighton & Hove’s Green city councillor. He led the campaign against the introduction of e-voting and e-counting in the UK. He has a French family history and Polish wife and has a young child.

He is an internet consultant, fluent in French has intermediate Polish and basic Spanish language skills.

He belongs to CND, Electoral Reform Society, National Trust, Open Rights Group,

PETA, Soil Association and the British Computer Society.

Hazel Dawe

A fluent German speaker she has been a member of the Green Party since 1988 and a candidate in European elections since the list system was introduced and has been a parliamentary candidate for Tunbridge Wells. She is also standing in the county council elections with her husband Steve (who is also standing in the European elections). A senior lecturer with a PhD in European law she lived in Austria for many years and campaigned against a nuclear power station there.

She worked for several years in the Yugoslav Bank in Vienna.

Campaigning includes Transition Town Tonbridge, Tonbridge Rail Commuters, Tonbridge Civic Society, Barden Park Neighbourhood Watch, Haysden Country Park Users Group.

She successfully sued London Metropolitan University for unfair dismissal. She has participated in campaigns including Local Works, Clone Town Britain and campaigns on hospitals. She chaired Stop the War coalitions in both Margate and Canterbury.

Jonathan Essex

He joined the Green Party on return from Bangladesh in 2005. He is the Green Party’s National Campaigns coordinator. He served on campaigns committee and as the south east co-climate change  spokesman.  He is a steering  committee  member of the Campaign against Climate Change, the Greenpeace  Climate  Communicator, Sustainability  Panel  of  Institute  of  Civil Engineers.

He is chairman of Sustainable Redhill and active in local cycling and rail forums. He was a student in  Durham and is a regular spokesman for the Green Party and other groups. He has conversational French, German and Bengali. He would  travel  to  the EU by train.

Mathew Ledbury

A long-term member he joined the party 20 years ago in his teens whilst still at school.

He has been a local election candidate and a general election candidate in Tooting, south London in 2001. He was active in Brighton in the 1990s and involved in the European campaigns of 1999 and 2004. Recently he has been involved in the Oxford local election campaigns. From 2001-03 he worked in New Zealand. He was involved in direct action in the anti-roads movement during the 1990s, in particular against the Newbury bypass.

A journalist, he writes mostly in specialist publications concerning urban regeneration, environment, and on transport issues. He is currently the convenor of the editorial board of the party's magazine, Green World.

Mathew is working as an environmental adviser with a European NGO. He has addressed public meetings on issues including road building, GM foods, and tuition fees.

Steve Dawe

A party member since 1983 and a European candidate in 1984, 1994, and 1999 he piloted a rewrite of the party’s European policies in 1991. Serving as a part time lecturer in social science lecturer including teaching European

Studies, Environmental Policy and International Development he was the Green Party’s worker at the No Campaign, against the Euro for six months during 2003. Since 2003 he has been running the Green Party Europe email list.

Politically active since 1975 as a Liberal 1975-1981 he has experience as a Green candidate in local,

European and general elections and has been canvassing in elections since 1977.

Current party posts include Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Tonbridge and Malling and local

branch support officer for Kent Green Party.

His current voluntary commitments include being coordinator, Barden Park Neighbourhood Watch; Coordinator, Kent Campaign Against Climate Change; press liaison officer, Kent CND; speaker, Climate Concern; West Kent Neighbourhood Watch Association; Co-founder and

Chair of Transition Town Tonbridge.

Beverley Golden

She is a solicitor-advocate who conducts cases in courts in child protection cases and stood for election as a district councillor in her local ward in the New Forest in May 2007.