The Uk Green Party

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The UK Green party wants to make a government that works for the common good. They believe that in order for the people to have a properly functioning society they have to be willing to put public interest instead of private interest first. The key ideologies of the party are: an economy that works for all, secure, affordable housing, fossil free, affordable energy, and quality education, with no tuition fees (“What we stand for, 2006-20016”). The Green party is known for being very progressive towards trying to stop climate change, and is a big supporter of having a healthy and clean environment for all. Lastly, one could compare this party to the Social Democratic party, due to the similarities of their ideals. Now that we know what the Green party stands for, we can talk about the important policy issues that face the party, and what their solutions would be to these issues. The first issue has to do with changing the 40 hour work week into a 35 hour work week, and what the overtime pay should be, if it should increase, decrease, stay the same, or be non existent. The Green party highly supports the work week going from 40 to 35 hours, and they are not supportive of there being any overtime pay. “Introducing a statutory 35 hour working week and banning the systematic use of overtime working.” (“Record of policy …show more content…

“The Green party reaffirms its commitment to a liberal immigration policy. Everyone is equal no matter what the colour of their passport.” (“Record of policy statements, 2006-2016”). As you can see from this policy statement, the party is extremely supportive of immigrants and would mostly argue for asylum to more foreigners but not to increase the social benefits. Even though the party supports immigration they would not be willing to offer more social benefits to the immigrants because that money can be used on welfare for the natural born

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