Changing the world with four MPs?

The Greens have quadrupled their Commons representation – to just four MPs. Repeating that feat at the next two general elections would bring them fewer MPs by 2032 than the Lib Dems have now. But we need radical and far-reaching change well before that if there is to be any chance of averting climate and ecological catastrophe. How could four MPs be parlayed into the opportunity for such change?

In this event, part of ‘Hopeful Humanity’ a Green Party Conference Fringe mini-festival of radical thinking and of hope for a better world, Rupert Read, long-standing Green activist and co-Director of the Climate Majority Project, argues for a strategy of transformative truth-telling, drawing on his article just published by Green House Think Tank. John Foster of Green House asks whether the most effective audience for such truth-telling should really be citizens at large – should it instead be a potential vanguard phalanx?

The event, open to the public, will take place in the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS, on Saturday 7th September at 3pm. Speakers will be followed by open discussion, chaired by Christina Coleman, Green councillor and former Chair of Wealden District Council and a recent Parliamentary candidate.