First the good news: if you live in Darlington you do have a Green candidate to vote for in next week's local elections.
Now the bad news: unfortunately, as a small local party funded only by donations from members, and at a disadvantage due to the First Past the Post voting system, we have had to target all our resources on College ward where we felt we had the best chance of winning when we started campaigning a year ago.
This means we do not have the funds (nor sufficient volunteers) to deliver leaflets to households in other areas.
However, you can find our College ward leaflets - which mention issues which are relevant across the town - at https://darlingtongreenparty.blogspot.com/search/label/leaflet and the national Green Party's Local Government Programme is available at https://www.greenparty.org.uk/local-government-programme
Overall, our local government programme involves lots of community involvement in decision-making (not just "consultation" like this council currently does) with a recognition that a suitable solution will be different in different places and situations, and it must be created and owned by the community.
Our candidates are:
* Bank Top and Lascelles - Kevin Lewis
* Brinkburn and Favedale - Terri Hankinson
* Cockerton - Ty Hankinson
* College - Bryony Holroyd
* College - Matthew Snedker
* Eastbourne - Richard Wise
* Harrowgate Hill - Christopher Brown
* Haughton and Springfield - Mike McTimoney
* Heighton and Coniscliffe - Helen Kinch
* Hummersknott - Kathy Barley
* Hurworth - Richard Lawley
* Mowden - Michael Cooke
* North Road - Anna-Maria Thain
* Northgate - Neil Kang-Scarth
* Park East - Jon Barley
* Park West - Louise Maddison
* Park West - Martin Wood
* Pierremont - Michael Chapman
* Red Hall and Lingfield - Fran Wood
* Sadberge and Middleton St George - Peter Commane
* Stephenson - Lucy Chapman
* Whinfield - Brian Tudor
