A movement, three
and a half decades old.
Verdant began in 1990 with a hundred members and a borrowed photocopier. Today we're 75,000 members, four MPs, and 859 local councillors. Here's how we got here.
From a photocopier to Parliament.
Founded
A hundred members, a manifesto, and a borrowed photocopier in a Manchester back room.
First MSPs/AMs
Two seats in the Scottish Parliament, three in the National Assembly for Wales.
First MP
Caroline Lucas wins Brighton Pavilion. The single Green vote in Westminster, for fourteen years.
Climate emergency
Verdant councillors lead the first UK council to declare a climate emergency. Hundreds follow.
Four MPs
A historic election. Bristol Central, Brighton Pavilion, Waveney Valley, North Herefordshire.
75,000 members
A new record. The fastest-growing party in Britain, and we're only getting started.
Six things, plainly.
A liveable planet
There is no second one. We act like it.
Equality, in fact
Race, class, gender, ability, age, where you live. Not abstract — actual.
Real democracy
PR. Votes at 16. A second chamber that's elected. A constitution that's written.
Public goods, public
Health, water, energy, transport, housing. Some things should not be for sale.
Peace, always
A foreign policy of cooperation, not adventure. A Britain that means it.
Care as a measure
Of each other. Of the place. Of what we leave behind.