Re-elect Jean Lambert, London's Green MEP

In addition to the national referendum of Green Party members on whether we should elect a Leader (see below), London members will be receiving another set of important ballot papers soon.

The London party is currently selecting our candidates for the 2009 Euro Elections and I'm part of a group working to ensure that the party re-selects our fantastic sitting Euro-MP, Jean Lambert.

As the re-elect Jean blog says:

We're a group of Londoners, some of us are members of the Green Party, others are not, but we are all really pleased that back in 1999 London was the first place in the UK to elect a Green politician to represent us in the European Parliament. We're proud that Jean Lambert is our Euro-MP and so we're working to make sure she gets re-elected in 2009.

And if you're on Facebook, you can join the re-elect Jean group.

5 out of 6 potential Green voters want a leader

As ballot papers arrive this week for the Green Party's referendum on whether to replace our "Principal Speakers" with a Leader and Deputy Leader, a new poll has shown that 5 out of 6 potential Green voters would prefer the Party to elect a leader.

The YouGov poll shows 84% of those who expressed a view think the Party should replace its "Principal Speakers" with a Leader.

There is very little variation by gender, age or region - the lowest levels of support for a leader are in the North East region and the 18-24 age group (81% in favour) and the highest in East Anglia (92% in favour).

Given this overwhelming message from the people we hope to be elected to represent, I hope that Party members will join me, Darren Johnson, Caroline Lucas, Sian Berry and 75% of our elected councillors in voting YES when their ballot papers arrive.