All of them are already confirmed for the Saturday June 14th action day where the Greens are putting together an epic team of 350 incredible volunteers for a day full of leafletting and campaigning.

Suffolk and Ipswich is a Green Heartland – and the aim is for the first ever Green Mayor (for Norfolk/Suffolk), the first-ever Green-led County Council (Suffolk) and a future Green Party MP for this area and more across Suffolk. 💚

This campaign event has replaced the planned Eastern Party Conference in Southend that day – so please join in if you can and be an important part of the launch of this historic campaign!

Get there for 10am for a 10:30am start.

It’s never been done before and we want you to be there on this special and historic campaign day.

Rail: The nearest station is Ipswich Station, a 20 min walk from the venue
Car: Pay and display car parking is available at Orwell Quay Car Park and on Duke Street next to the building.

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Everyone is very welcome to come along to Hey Joe’s premises on Ropers Yard just off Crown Street in the town centre, while members and supporters on our database are sent the Zoom link in advance too in case they are unable to join us in person on the night.

Our speaker is a former Brentwood Borough Council election candidate, and Kelda will be talking to us from her new base in Derbyshire about what is was like serving as a councillor up there in recent years.

The venue is not far from Brentwood station and the bus stops on the High Street. The full address is: 10 Ropers Yard, Hart Street, Brentwood CM14 4FU.

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And Paul, who is our local party Treasurer, encouraged anyone from our area who can follow suit to head to the target seat to help Adrian’s campaign in its crucial final stages.

“To my knowledge Waveney Valley is an unusual constituency as it crosses county boundaries, North Suffolk and South Norfolk. It is largely rural, with few large towns,” said Paul.

“Diss, probably the largest, and on the main London to Norwich rail line, has a population of c.10,000. It is a new constituency created by the boundaries commission after the recent review.

“I met Adrian soon after I joined the party in 2011, at a council by-election in Norwich and he recruited me to the campaign team for the 2014 European Elections in Eastern Region, which, to a significant extent, kick started my involvement in the party.

“Close to a hundred members arrived at Diss to door knock and/or deliver leaflets in the town and surrounding villages and hamlets. In recent years the party has gone from strength to strength in this area. It currently is the majority group on Mid Suffolk District Council and has recently won a seat on Norfolk County Council in South Norfolk.

“With postal votes likely to be delivered to households this week, it is important to make contact with as many of these voters as possible in the next few days. For those not involved in active politics, the purpose of canvassing is to identify those who either will vote for your party or who are quite likely to vote for the party; it is not to try to convert people.

“On the whole the reception was very good. A number of residents said we were the only party they had seen. The number of Green posters around the town was encouraging, but I have no doubt that there are plenty of silent Tories, whose votes are still up for grabs. In the village I visited in the afternoon, it was a straight Tory vs Green contest. A number of people insisted that they could never vote Labour, but were disillusioned with the Tory Party and recognised that we were the party campaigning against the polluting of the local river and opposing the proposed installation of pylons from Norwich to Tilbury.

“Waveney Valley is one of our four target seats  in England, and my sense is it will be close. There’s just over two weeks to go in the campaign and every conversation and every vote will count.

“The more members of Brentwood & Chelmsford Green Party and Eastern Region Green Party who can attend between now and polling day, the more doorstep conversations & the more leaflets that can be delivered, the better. This is a fun day  with likeminded people, working towards getting our first MP in the East.”

To find out more about the Action Days coming up in Waveney Valley and to sign up see:

https://actionnetwork.org/campaigns/adrian-ramsay-for-waveney-valley

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Currently the Green Party are running close to taking the seats ahead of the Conservatives on Basildon Borough Council on May 2. The three SW Essex Greens candidates up for election in Billericay East are Andrew Brennan, Stewart Goshawk and Andy Tatman. 

B&CGP was only too happy to help out, and with a bit of luck and leg work the Party’s leafleting efforts will pay off, bringing the first Greens to the Council.

“We know from long experience that having even a single Green in a council chamber completely changes the debate and reminds the other councillors about what’s really important,” said David, who’s also B&CGP Secretary, and is on the Brentwood Borough Council ballot in Pilgrims Hatch ward in the local elections.

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