Comedian Alexei Sayle endorses the Green Party

03 JUN 2009

"One of the great things about Britain is that, unlike in a lot of Europe, we have never let extremist parties of the right get anything but a tiny toehold in our electoral system," said Alexei Sayle in an email to Peter Cranie - NW region Green candidate - this morning:

"I'll personally be voting Green this time but whoever you support you should use your vote to continue our noble tradition and keep the BNP out."

Alexei Sayle's vote will hopefully help elect Liverpool-based Green Party candidate Peter Cranie, and stop racist BNP leader Nick Griffin getting a seat in North West England.

On Tuesday Peter Cranie was out for photos in Manchester with leading comedian and satirist Mark Thomas, who has a video endorsing the Green Party and saying that "all the other parties are crap."

Yesterday another well-known comic, Mark Steel, wrote in the Independent newspaper:

" ... the cheery note is that the Green Party has attained credibility while retaining its principles, and seems to be the home for many people who opposed the Iraq war, oppose the rule of bankers and private finance, and feel it might be worth looking at doing something about the fact the planet's about to melt. 

"So I'm voting for them tomorrow ..."

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