Green Party

Chair of RESPECT, Birmingham Councillor Salma Yaqoob urges voters in the North West and West Midlands to vote Green in this new video. 

Joined by lead Green candidate for the West Midlands, Felicity Norman, Councillor Yaqoob explains how progressive parties need to unite in this election to come ahead of the BNP. 

In a joint letter sent to the Guardian this week, Felicity and Salma say: 

"The combined support of the Greens and RESPECT in 2004 was greater than that of the BNP, even in their two target regions.

In response to the unprecedented threat of the BNP, RESPECT have urged their members and supporters to back the Greens in the North West and West Midlands.

In the face of widespread dismay at the political elite of this country, a progressive option at the ballot box is needed now more than ever before.

Relying on a combination of votes from the red, yellow and blue parties alone to keep the BNP out is a gamble we simply cannot afford to take. Right now, many progressive voters simply won't go to the polls unless they know they have a real alternative.

Tactical voting for the greens to keep the bnp in 5th place (or worse) and the triumph of progressive politics over the far right will offer new hope for the political generation who simply see Westminster and politics in general, as the home of careerists and subservient politicians."

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