Breakthrough hope of Green Party as 'full slate' is announced for council elections

Monday April 12, 2010

By RICHARD OSLEY

CAMDEN'S Green Party this morning announced it will be standing three candidates in every council ward at the May 6 Town Hall elections. The group is trying to make history by winning its first seats outside of the Highgate wards, where it currently has three councillors. Current group leader Alex Goodman and former local branch chief Adrian Oliver are standing aside but the Greens insist they have the strength to make their biggest ever impact in Camden. Parliamentary candidates Bea Campbell and Natalie Bennett are in the line-up for the ward by ward ballots.

Highgate ward councillor Maya De Souza said: “I am delighted by the quality team that we have assembled, reflecting the growing numbers and strength of the Camden Green Party. The people of Camden are seeking a new approach to politics at the local level, as well as nationally. Green parties in Lewisham, Brighton, Norwich and many other places have seen numbers of councillors grow quickly after they made the initial election breakthrough, and we’re working very hard to see the same effect in Camden. We’re being helped by the strong showing of the national party, with Caroline Lucas, our leader and the favourite to win the seat of Brighton Pavilion, all over the papers and television shows over the weekend.”

The council election candidate list reads as follows:

Belsize:  Anya Courts, Sophie North, Francesca Richards-Spiller

Bloomsbury: Sam Bueno de Mesquita , Beatrix Campbell,  Justin Hoffman

Camden Town and Primrose Hill: Russell Oppenheimer, Pam Walker, Vincent Thurgood

Cantelowes: Sheila Hayman, Colin Huston, Rachel Zatz

Fortune Green: Jane  Ennis, Paul Greenhalgh, Hugo Plowden

Frognal & Fitzjohns:    Charles Harris, Edward Ross, Alice      Taylor

Gospel Oak: Constantine Buhayer, Robin Smith, Jane Walby

Hampstead:      Iain Patton, Prashant Vase, Katherina Wolpe

Haverstock: Jane Lawrie, Paul Grader, Colin Houston

Highgate: Naomi Aptowitzer, Maya De Souza, Tristan Smith

Holborn & Covent Garden Suzanne Hartley, Robert McCracken, Benedict Protheroe

Kentish Town: John Bird, Victoria Green, Alaa Owaineh

Kilburn: Helen Mayer, Lauren Paris, Charlotte Whelan

King's Cross: Jamie Janson, Edward Milford, Una Sapietis

Regent's Park:  Miles Jackman, Stephen Plowden, Rowan Yapp

St Pancras &  Somers Town: Natalie Bennett, Matty Mitford,  Cathryn Symons

Swiss Cottage: Stephen Cottle,  Morgan Watkins, Alan Wheatley

West Hampstead: Tobias Davidson, Roderick Graham, Stuart Taylor