Molly Scott Cato, the lead Green Party candidate in the South West for next May’s European elections, has visited all seven counties in the region within the last ten days.
Dr Scott Cato began her odyssey in Gloucestershire attending a meeting of Stroud District Council, on which she is Leader of the Green Group. There she put forward a motion to prevent evictions under the bedroom tax. The next nine days saw Dr Scott Cato taking part in a Green Question Time in Wiltshire, a public meeting on fracking in Bournemouth, a visit to Weymouth, a street stall in Yeovil, addressing a public meeting about ‘Alternatives to Austerity’ at the University of Bristol, talking about green economics in Falmouth, visiting Plymouth Indoor Market and finally visiting a community owned wind turbine at South Brent.
Dr Scott Cato, who also holds down a full time job as Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University and is Green Party speaker on finance, is undaunted. She has pledged to further step up her campaign in the New Year in her bid to become the first Green MEP in the South West.
Dr Scott Cato said:
“I am full of energy for this campaign and what drives me on is the knowledge that our message is being so well received by people in the South West. On fracking, renationalising the railways, community owned renewable energy or genuine alternatives to austerity, I am finding popular support across the region. I only need an extra 1% of the votes compared to 2009 to take one of the six seats being contested so you can expect to see and hear a lot more of me! I look forward to visiting and revisiting many more places, though I confess, I have no plans to visit Gibraltar, which, bizarrely, is regarded by the EU as being part of South West England!”