The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Green Party seeks second council win
The Green Party is once again putting up a candidate in every seat for the upcoming Peterborough City Council elections as it targets a second victory.
The Greens won their first ever seat on the authority last year when Julie Howell triumphed in Orton Waterville with more than 50 per cent of the vote.
The party is now hoping to make further gains this year with 20 of the 60 seats on the council being contested on May 2. It recently received a boost with co-leader Jonathan Bartley visiting the city and speaking to Year 12 pupils at Ormiston Bushfield Academy in Ortongate.
Candidates this year include parliamentary candidates for Peterborough (Joseph Wells) and North West Cambridgeshire (Nicola Day).
Mr Wells is standing in Gunthorpe, while Ms Day, who is also the local party’s co-coordinator, is standing in Orton Waterville.
She said: “We feel it’s important to stand a Green candidate in every council ward to give everyone who wants to vote Green the opportunity of doing so.
“We know from our experience in Orton that support for Green councillors is growing in Peterborough and we put this down to our consistently strong work ethic.
“By talking to residents all the time we build a strong relationship with them as well as a deep understanding of what matters to them. But there’s something more about the Greens. Each of us in our own individual way is committed to public service.
“Residents have come to rely on us to go the extra mile for them, and in wards where the Green vote is strong we have hard working candidates (and a councillor) who set a very high standard that we hope every councillor and prospective councillor would wish to aspire to.”
Former parliamentary candidates Fiona Radic (Park ward) and Greg Guthrie (Glinton & Castor) are also standing. A full list of candidates will appear alongside this article online at www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk.