Local Jonathan Bartley has been chosen by the Lambeth Green Party; Jonathan has been heavily involved in many movements the Green Party have supported.
Jonathan Bartley photographed when he was Vice Chair of the ‘Yes’ campaign to change the voting system for Westminster.
Lambeth Green Party has selected local campaigner Jonathan Bartley as Parliamentary candidate for Streatham.
Jonathan hit the headlines during the last General Election campaign when he publicly confronted David Cameron on the street about Conservative plans for disabled children – which the Prime Minister denied. Channel 4 checked the facts and found Jonathan to be correct and David Cameron was wrong.
Jonathan was Vice Chair of the ‘Yes’ campaign in the national referendum to change the voting system for Westminster.
He was responsible for media in the Green Party’s London Mayoral campaign in which the Green Party came third and has been the national party’s Work and Pensions spokesperson.
Jonathan has lived in the local area all his life. After post-graduate research at the London School of Economics, he worked in Parliament for several years on a cross-party basis. He is an author, journalist and campaigner who was dragged off the steps of St Pauls by police during the evictions of the Occupy protestors in 2012.
He was instrumental in saving The Glebe sheltered housing in Streatham and has raised over £1 million for overseas development work. He has written for a number of national newspapers, and regularly appears on television and radio.
Jonathan said: “A vote for the Greens sends a clear message to Westminster that business as usual is no longer an option. More and more people are realising that the Greens are the alternative to the big three parties who have very little to choose between them.”
“The government is in the middle of an unprecedented attack on the welfare state and the country’s most vulnerable people, but Labour has said it will stick to Tory spending limits. All three parties are committed to spending tens of billions on renewing nuclear weapons and pushing ahead on fracking. Labour abstained on the appallingly illiberal Immigration Bill and refused to oppose secret courts as part of the Justice and Security Bill. And when it comes to challenging the unaccountability of free schools and academies, the asset-stripping of the NHS, the vilification of those on welfare as ‘scroungers’ and ‘frauds’, where is the fight back? It is only the Greens who are offering an alternative.”