2015 was the first full year of this blog. Below are the
most popular posts of each month, as defined by page views, for this year.
The year kicked off with increasing evidence of a Green Party
surge.
January
While hostility from the conservative press was to be
expected, I must say I have been quite taken aback by how many Labour
commentators have completely failed to grasp the mentality of Green supporters
or what the "Green Surge" is all about.
Attention then turned to the General Election, which dominated
the blog news agenda.
February
In the second of a series of interviews with Green Left
supporting candidates at the General Election, Mike Shaughnessy interviews the
Green Party's Katy Beddoe, candidate for Caerphilly, Wales.
March
I like to tease my Green friends that I was the first Green
parliamentarian in the UK! I was elected as a Labour MEP for Essex and Herts in
1994 but quickly fell out with Tony Blair, I think I was a little ahead of
public opinion in recognising that Blair was a fraud and a Tory!
April
In the fifth of a series of interviews with Green Left
supporting candidates at the General Election, Mike Shaughnessy talks to the
Green Party's Lesley Grahame, candidate for the target constituency of Norwich
South.
May
Party leader Natalie Bennett and Caroline Lucas, the Greens'
only MP, described their policies as an "unashamedly bold plan to create a
more equal, more democratic society".
June
We'll look here at Green voters, but the graphics here give
the full results of which party got votes from which demographic groups.
General Election over, the Greek financial crisis moved to
centre stage by mid summer.
July
Around two hundred people assembled at the German Embassy in
London this evening, to show solidarity with the Greek people in their fight
against the vicious and vindictive bail out terms forced on them by their
creditors in the EU and IMF.
The Labour leadership contest and its unlikely winner became
the big political news story.
August
I’ve not commented until now on Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign to
become the Labour party leader, preferring to leave it as a Labour party
matter. But it is becoming clear, that if Corbyn wins, it will have a big
impact on the Green party’s fortunes.
Then as a side show to Corbyn’s election the EU referendum made
a strong appearance.
September
I don’t know whether Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the
Labour Party, reads this blog, but his strategy for the upcoming referendum on
Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU) now appears to be remarkably
similar to what I recommended here on this blog ten days ago.
Fall-out from the new Tory government’s welfare policies hit
the headlines.
October
The figures from the Health and Social Care Information
Centre show that in the worst affected areas, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of
Scilly, 2.4 people out of every 100,000 were admitted to hospital with a
primary diagnosis of malnutrition.
Then the vote in Parliament for the UK to bomb IS in Syria
proved popular amongst the readership here.
November
The recent history of Britain’s involvement in military
action in the middle-east is not a happy one, in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya,
our interventions have been an unmitigated disaster.
The year ended with the Paris COP21 climate ‘agreement’,
which some hailed as a great stride forward.
December
Reading the main stream media you would be forgiven for
thinking that the climate crisis has, at one fell swoop, been solved by the
agreement reached at the Paris COP21 Climate Summit.
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