"Don't let Westminster politicians kill your faith in democracy" urges Keith Taylor, Green EURO candidate

The event: Euro and County Council election hustings, Winchester

 7.45-10 pm Friday, 29th May 2009

St Faith’s Hall, Back St, St Cross, Winchester (Click for map)

Keith Taylor, Green Euro candidate for the South East has welcomed a ComRes poll which puts the Green party in third place with 16% of the vote in the South East, four points clear of the Liberal Democrats. He's urging people NOT to let the row over MPs expenses undermine their faith in democracy.

Keigh says he fully understands "the raw anger and dismay as people feel the effects of the global economic collapse in their own pockets, then see the complacency and excess of politicians from the Westminster parties".

Keith will be in town with the Winchester Green Party throughout the afternoon and evening (on Friday 29th May) encouraging people to focus positively on the appetite for change which is emerging from the row.

"With both County and Euro elections on June 4th, we want to engage voters in Hampshire, rejuvenate the democratic process and pull it free from the mire. With the global recession and the real threat of climate chaos, we're facing the biggest challenges of this generation. Time and again our leaders have let us down so it's time to focus on change and focus on the only party which CAN get us out of this mess".

Thank you very much for coming to the 'From Bust to Bloom' event at Winchester Discovery Centre on Thursday 11 December (or indeed our 'Big Opportunity' launch event in March). I hope you found the event's focus on the causes and solutions to current economic problems, peak oil, climate change and rebuilding resilient communities to be both stimulating and inspirational.

As the first ever Leader of the Green Party I am writing to ask if you and your family would consider joining us as your New Year Resolution in 2009?

It will cost you just £31 (single, waged) or £41 (joint, waged) (less if unwaged). If you opt to pay by Direct Debit it will cost you as little as £10 a year. See our joining instructions here www.edirectdebit.com/greenparty

For more details of Winchester Green Party simply reply to this email.

Here are three good reasons to join us:

1. The Green Party is the party of the future. We recognise that the climate and economic crises facing the world need urgent and  joined up solutions. We helped pioneer the idea of a Green New Deal, including the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs through investment in energy efficiency and renewables.

2. We believe that justice, democracy, equality and human rights are not luxuries - they are central to the kind of world we want to help create. The Green Party is not just about protecting the environment. We have policies that will improve well being too.

3. Green politics is a new and fresh kind of politics. It is about changing values and lifestyles, so people can reconnect with the earth and individuals can reconnect with their communities.

Join us as your New Year's Resolution. Vote Green in June 2009.