General Election July 2024
The Green Party is growing fast. We achieved 18% of the vote in the recent local elections. We now represent people in Westminster and in a record number of local councils, as well as in the London Assembly. We have candidates standing in the July 2024 General Election in the Tameside constituencies. Lee Alan Huntbach in Ashton Under Lyne and Robert Hodgetts-Haley in Stalybridge and Hyde. The Denton and Haughton Green area is now included in the new constituency of Gorton and Denton. The candidate is Hannah Gardner who is nominated by the Manchester Green Party.
More details on all candidates to follow when the nomination papers have been submitted.
We have a Crowdfunder page here. Any contribution to our election fund is most welcome.
Email Lee Huntbach if you would like to get involved with our campaigning. heyrodbikey49@gmail.com or check out our Facebook page
Read more about the Green Party policy here.
Local Elections 2024
Here in Tameside, we had our first Green Councillor, Lee Alan Huntbach representing Ashton Waterloo from 2019-2023. Lee has done lots of work in the ward and came very close to winning on 2nd May 2024 in Ashton Waterloo.
We are a small local team and we are very proud to have candidates who stood for election on 2nd May 2024 in 15 out of the 19 Tameside wards. This is a great achievement for us and means most voters in Tameside had a real choice on the ballot paper.
We’re working progressively on local issues; to improve the lives of all people in Tameside, and to improve our local environment. As part of the Green Party of England & Wales, we share a deep concern for social and environmental justice, expressed through our national policies, we believe fair is worth fighting for.
We rely on people power rather than corporate finance in all that we do. Get involved with us today so that we can achieve so much more for Tameside.
Tameside Green Party covers all areas of Tameside Metropolitan Borough. We cover the Parliamentary Constituencies of
- Ashton-Under-Lyne
- Denton and Reddish (prior to the 2023 boundary changes) Now Gorton and Denton
- Stalybridge and Hyde.
The Green Party is about more than just the environment: we believe that social justice and environmental responsibility are fundamentally linked. We campaign on local, national and international issues and look to stand candidates in local and general elections.
Tameside Green Party is active and growing with a solid membership base. If you agree with our core values, please consider joining, donating or otherwise getting involved.
Political Programme
The Green Party Political Programme sets out what Greens are in politics to do: to end the system that keeps hurting the environment and all of us who rely on it – and to build a better alternative.
This Programme isn’t like other parties’ manifestos, it has not been squeezed through focus groups and stripped down according to the latest polling. Instead it has been built from policies proposed and voted on by our members, looking to secure the long term future of the places and people they love.
It’s a vision of a better world, and together we can deliver it.
Tribute to Christine Clark and Julie Wood
Christine and Julie – sadly missed
In the past three months or so Tameside Green Party has lost two of its members to
accident and illness. Christine Clark died tragically following a catastrophic fall whilst
Julie Wood died from complications arising out of a chronic illness which she had
suffered over several years.
Both these ladies were long-standing members of the Green party and shared a
friendship over many years going back to well before their membership of the party.
They had a lot in common: both were active members of the party, bold and
forthright in their beliefs, left-leaning, feminist, compassionate and intolerant of
injustice. That’s not to say one might put them in the same box though; on second
thoughts, no box would have held one of them, let alone both!
In her 80 years Chris promoted pacifism, women’s rights, human rights, and
environmental justice with great energy. In the local Green Party her exploits at
Greenham Common were spoken of with awe. She hadn’t just talked the talk; she’d
chained the chain and camped the camp at Greenham, and I remember walking the
walk with her against the Iraq war, in London in 2003. She had also spent three
weeks in Beijing as a delegate to the International Women’s Conference in 1995.
Chris fully lived the life that she made for herself, not being satisfied with the one
she might have felt she had to follow. She had experienced her – ‘It doesn’t have to
be like this!’ – moments; those times when one’s eyes suddenly open, and the world
never looks the same again. As well as her commitments to the world out there
though she had a family to whom she passed her beliefs and values, as well as her
love. They and we will miss her. I never heard her say a bad word about anyone
(apart from universally acknowledged bad people!); her compassion overrode that
impulse I often thought. She had or was, a ‘great soul’. Is that an exaggeration? Yes,
probably it is, but that’s what popped into my head when I heard of her death, and
I’m not going back on it.
Chris’s friend Julie was 59, as dauntless in the face of her impending death as Chris
was in her life. Until recently I had only known Julie as an ardent and active Green
Party acquaintance who regularly stood in local elections. As her chronic condition
advanced, I got to know her better as part of a local support group that she
surrounded herself with as death approached. In her last weeks Julie raged at times
and did have bad words for some things and people, but never did she flinch or
show weakness; always seeking to shape her remaining time as increasingly gloomy
prognoses cruelly chipped away at it.
We now and again talked of death, the afterlife, God, Anglicanism, Unitarianism and
Trinitarianism; all topics which she was happy to talk about given her deep
understanding and study of theology, divinity and the philosophy of religion. She was
a lifelong Anglican. In conversation we lightly referred to her death as ‘crossing
Jordan’, never using the ‘d’ word itself. She held to her belief that she would be
passing to somewhere from this life, rather than reaching an ending. I hope I’m
wrong and she did find herself with her beloved husband Ken – over Jordan.
Goodnight, Ladies.
Trevor Clarke April 2024