The Green Party have urged the British public to join its “peaceful political revolution” to end austerity and address climate change.
The Greens pledged to stop the privatisation of the NHS and increase minimum wage to £10 per hour, which is above the £9.15 per hour estimated to be London’s living wage.
As part of their plans unveiled by Green MP Caroline Lucas and party leader Natalie Bennett, the party also planned to introduce a national insulation programme for the nation’s worst-affected nine million houses, that would help up to two million children growing in in cold homes.
Bennett said:
“Our manifesto is an unashamedly bold plan to create a more equal, more democratic society while healing the planet from the effects of an unstable, unsustainable economy.
“This manifesto presents the Green Party’s genuine alternative to our tired, business-as-usual politics. We desperately need a more equal society and the policies we announce today pave the way towards a brighter, fairer future for all.”
Other proposals put forward in the Green manifesto entitled “For the common good” were plans to renationalise the railways, a policy that consistently sees approval ratings of over 60 percent, and introducing a 60 percent top rate of tax and Robin Hood 1 percent tax on the banks.
The Greens are fielding a record 571 candidates on 7 May after a surge in memberships, which now count 59,000, more than either UKIP or the Liberal Democrats.