Mal O’Hara also described the party is building for the future running 11 candidates in the General Election.
Green Party Northern Ireland leader Mal O’Hara and deputy leader Lesley Veronica at the launch of the party’s General Election manifesto at the Show Some Love Green House centre in Belfast on Friday
Mr O’Hara, who became leader in 2022, said the party is back, with its highest membership in recent times, standing more candidates than it ever has in the region and offering voters a “unique policy platform saying things that other parties in Northern Ireland are not talking about”. “We get side tracked into the debate around the constitutional question and around identity politics rather than the bread and butter failures.
It calls for action to save the environment, to protect public services and the health service, a wealth tax and reform of Stormont. “I think if you look at other parties with much much more resource, some of the richest parties on these islands, what they put out for a Westminster manifesto was frankly embarrassing,” he said.
“We fully expect that Labour will form the next government, but everything we have seen and heard from Keir Starmer gives us little hope that they will be little more than diet Tory austerity.
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