Green Party members today put fracking firmly on the conference agenda by holding a Fracking Solidarity Lunch in the Great Hall.
Speeches from Green Party Leader, Natalie Bennett and Green MEP Keith Taylor underlined the party’s commitment to continuing to be the political voice of opposition to fracking.
Anti-fracking protestors from Barton Moss were invited to a free lunch at conference as party of the party’s commitment to supporting the anti-fracking movement.
Two Barton Moss anti fracking protestors, Colin and Olive Gong, said:
“We are very pleased to be invited to the Green Party Conference. Natalie Bennett and Caroline Lucas are the only politicians to have put their boots on the ground and actively show their support. The Green Party really stand out as a party for the people.”
Green Party Leader, Natalie Bennett, said:
“On fracking, the Green Party view represents the majority view of the British public. Yet elsewhere on Britain’s political spectrum we’ve got David Cameron and George Osborne determined to pursue the fracking fantasy, making claims about cheap and instant gas that even the frackers are astonished at.
“We’ve got a Lib Dem energy secretary who said “I love shale gas” twice, just in case anyone was too shocked to really take it in the first time. And a Labour Party that’s in favour of fracking, kind of, sort of, “well as long as that doesn’t upset anyone in this audience, in which case we might take a different position”. (Yes, we do hear a lot of that from Ed Miliband’s Labour Party…)”
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