Coventry Green Party Election Candidates - 2008

We are running 15 candidates in all areas of the city for the 2008 local elections on the 1st of May.

They are, drum roll ....

Bablake – Ryan Taylor
Binley and Willenhall – Kenneth Jones
Cheylesmore – Aisa Kara
Earlsdon – Scott Redding
Foleshill – Penny Walker
Longford – Natalia Graña
Lower Stoke – Laura Vesty
Radford – Cathy Wattebot
Sherbourne – Charlotte Tittle
Upper Stoke – Bryn Tittle
Wainbody – John Walton
Westwood – Jesse Meadows
Whoberley – Gianluca Grimalda
Woodlands – Danny Foulstone
Wyken – Jo Rathbone

Our key pledges in Earlsdon, where we already have 14% of the vote are to:

- hold weekly surgeries in any ward that we win in, to keep in touch with voters
- push for projects, by the council or run by social enterprises, to help Coventry reuse our food waste, aluminium cans, nappies, tyres, paint, carpet, bulky goods, and wood furniture
- tackle the real causes of crime, with projects that strengthen communities, engage high-risk youth, provide better late-night public transport, and ensure more community police on the streets
- work for peace, both locally and internationally
- expand access to local allotments for growing organic food
- lobby for a city-wide strategy to deal with fuel poverty – people are spending more than 10% of their income on fuel bills, and it will get worse with fossil fuels running out
- require quarter-on-quarter, and year-on-year, targets to keep us on course to deal with climate change. Climate change is our debt to future generations, and Coventry will be more likely to pay off our debt if we commit to regular instalments.

The bottom line is that a low-carbon Coventry won’t be about shivering around a candle in a cave. It can be a future of greater employment, healthier food, and stronger communities, a future with warmer homes due to better insulation. Instead of sitting for hours in traffic jams, we can have clean, safe, reliable public transport.