Following a successful nomination process and Crowdfunder bid, the Hull and East Riding Green Party has formally announced its candidates who will be standing in July’s General Election.
Green Party Candidate, Richard Howarth was arrested after he attempted to display a banner on the roof of Hull University.
Mr Howarth tried to unfurl his banner at the site during the filming on the BBC show Question Time on Thursday evening.
Candidates Standing In Beverley & Holderness for the upcoming general election have been confirmed.
In all, there are five parties looking to win the support of residents in Beverley & Holderness and win a seat currently held by the Conservative Party.
Hull & East Riding Green Party have revealed their candidates for the upcoming local elections in the East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull.
Beverley residents will have a chance to vote for the Green Party in two wards. They have a candidate standing in St Mary’s Ward and also Beverley Rural.
A protest vote at the Local elections in the East Riding is the perfect opportunity for people to be heard.
For many, it will be the first time people can go to the polls and show their discontent at how the Conservatives have let everybody down.
Members of the local Labour Party say they will join others at an anti-Fracking Protest planned later this week.
On Thursday East Riding of Yorkshire Council planners will meet to discuss extending a licence granted to Rathlin Energy.
Hull and East Riding Green Party are calling for people to think more about the problems being created by plastic in the world.
The party also warns that people’s vanity is leading to micro plastics ending up in drinking water, as people strive for better skin.
Richard Howarth of The Green Party has criticised the UK voting system saying it is utterly inadequate as he reflected on the 2017 General Election.
His comments comas the party as his party polled 525,371 votes nationally and won one seat, yet the Democratic Unionist Party polled just 292,316 votes winning, what will be 10 critical seats.
Johanna Boal from Beverley, has been selected as Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Beverley and Holderness constituency for the General Election on 8 June.
Mrs Boal said she wants to restore hope to people’s lives that have been ruined by the ‘cynical and cruel Tories’ that she says have slashed spending locally.
The Green Party in Yorkshire and the Humber have come out against contentious NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) contracts for 2017-19 that will see over £1 billion of Government cuts from Health & Social Care Services by 2020/21.
These contracts will deliver huge cuts and changes to NHS and social care services – but both the public and frontline NHS staff are in the dark about where these cuts and changes will fall, such is the secrecy of the 2017-19 STP operational plans.
I am not just standing for The Beverley Party, as I did in the last election, but I was also selected by the Green Party, the Yorkshire Party and elected Independent councillors on ERYC.
The Beverley Party, the Green Party, the Yorkshire Party and elected members of the Independent Group in ERYC, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, are backing Bea Willar as their unity candidate.
The Green Party say that the Fracking is a bankrupt industry following the news that Cuadrilla have been granted a licence for fracking rights in the East Riding.
Anti-fracking protesters will again descend on Beverley as they look to make their voices heard outside the offices of East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
As the nation went out to vote on Thursday 7th May, so too did students at Longcroft School, which staged its own mock election.
An opinion poll conducted by HU17.net over the past 36 hours has revealed that UKIP appear to be the front runners in Beverley.
Lee Walton has expressed the importance of would-be voters attending the Hustings event that will take place at Beverley Minster on Tuesday 28th April.
Anti-fracking protesters have again taken to the road as a look to remind local residents of the dangers that the extraction of shale gas poses to the environment.