Thame’s MEP Set To Be Country’s First Green MP

ONE of Thame’s MEPs, Dr Caroline Lucas, could become the UK’s first Green MP, if she is successful in the next General Election, which could come sooner rather than later if Gordon Brown decides to go for a snap General Election to capitalise on his current high ratings in the polls.
Caroline Lucas, who has been the Green Party MEP for South-East England since 1999, has been chosen in a ballot of party members in Brighton to be the Greens? official candidate to contest the Brighton Pavilion constituency in the next general election.

Caroline was the first Green Party member of Oxfordshire County Council, and worked for a development charity.

She currently sits on the Climate change, Environment and International Trade committees in the European Parliament, and is vice-president of the Parliament?s influential cross-party group on animal welfare.

She is Vice-President of the RSPCA, a matron of the Women?s Environmental Network, a member of the decision-making National Council of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and a board member of the International Forum on Globalisation.