NE England Green Party launches its Euro-election Campaign
19 May 2009
"We are faced with the deepest recession in generations, with rising unemployment and cuts in public services. The Green Party offers a real alternative."
Shirley Ford, the Greens' lead Eurocandidate, said, spelling out how the Green New Deal would tackle both the recession and climate change by creating jobs that would bring about a low carbon economy.
"A priority will be jobs in public transport - giving us more and better buses, a better local rail network and cheaper fares. We would bring the railways back under public control - we would not allow the Tyne and Wear Metro to be privatised. This is exactly where public investment should be going."
she told party members gathered at St Peter's Metro Station, concluding:
"We don't want to re-create the consumption and credit boom that got us into this mess. So we would create local banks under public control."
"For the North East of England overall, this would mean over 40,000 new green jobs. Jobs in renewable energy, in offshore wind energy, and in providing free insulation for all homes, schools and hospitals. Jobs in waste management to treat it as a valuable resource instead of something to be buried or burnt."
"The Green New Deal will create the sort of jobs that we need to reduce our carbon emissions and give us the sort of economic recovery we urgently need."
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