Euro Candidates Guide

European Parliamentary Election Candidates North West of England  So...Where do they all stand on Unconventional Gas?

The European Parliamentary Elections

Thursday 22nd may 2014

The System:

• The ‘North West’ constituency for the European Parliament consists of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

• We have 8 MEPs.

• Constituents vote for a party rather than an individual.

• Parties put their candidates in a ranked order. The party then receives seats according to their percentage of the overall vote with candidates getting seats in order of their ranked position.

The current make up of our constituency is:	Your vote can really count!
Labour: 2 Conservative: 3 Lib Dem: 1 UKIP: 1 BNP: 1	If you plan to vote according to who will best represent your views on Unconventional Gas in the UK please read the following:

75 North West of England constituency candidates for the European Parliamentary elections were contacted, through their parties or individually, by members of the Frack Free Upton lobbying group and asked for their stance on test drilling and extraction of Unconventional Gas in the UK (including coalbed methane and shale gas). We had replies from one Liberal Democrat, one English Democrat and one UKIP candidate who were all IN FAVOUR of Unconventional Gas in the UK. We had NO responses from any other candidates except for the Green party. All Green Party candidates have promised to reject test drilling and extraction of Unconventional Gas and promote this view point in Europe. All the other major parties are in favour of unconventional gas test drilling and extraction to some degree. Why so few responses from the ‘big parties’? Perhaps because they don’t want to admit their stance on UCG knowing the ground swell of feeling against it. All candidates’ names and contact details are listed.

European Parliamentary Elections

North West of England Candidates

Labour: Contact via: northwestlabour@labour.org.uk 1. Theresa Griffin – http://theresagriffin.eu/contact 2. Afzal Khan - http://afzalkhan.org.uk/contact-me/ 3. Julie Ward - Twitter: @julie4nw 4. Wajid Khan 5. Angeliki Stogia - angeliki.labour@gmail.com 6. Steve Carter - Twitter: @SteveCarter001 7. Pascale Lamb - pv.lamb@googlemail.com 8. Nick Parnell - n.parnell@bury.gov.uk Conservatives: Contact via: nwestcc@conservativesnorth.com 1. Jacqueline Foster 2. Sajjad Karim 3. Kevin Beaty 4. Deborah Dunleavy 5. Jo Barker 6. Daniel Hamilton 7. Chris Whiteside 8. James Walsh Lib Dems: Contact via: http://www.libdems.org.uk/contact 1. Chris Davies- chris.davies@europarl.europa.eu 2. Helen Foster-Grime - helen@hfg4mep.com 3. Jo Crotty 4. Qassim Afzal - qassim.afzal@ntlworld.com 5. Jane Brophy 6. Sue McGuire 7. Gordon Lishman 8. Neil Christian UKIP: Contact via:  mail@ukip.org 1. Paul Nutall - http://www.paulnuttallmep.com/?page_id=24 2. Louise Bours- louisebours@yahoo.co.uk 3. Steven Woolfe - stevenwoolfe@ukip.org 4. Shneur Odze – Facebook: Shneur ODZE 5. Slaughter, Lee 6. Noble, Simon 7. Harper, Peter 8. Stanyer, John Green Party: Andy Donnelly - andy_donnelly@blueyonder.co.uk 1. Peter Cranie 2. Gina Dowding 3. Laura Bannister 4. Jill Perry 5. John Knight 6. Ulrike Zeshan 7. Lewis Coyne 8. Jake Welsh Pirate Party: Contact via: press@pirateparty.org.uk 1. Marie Aretoulaki 2. George Walkden 3. Jack Allnutt

An Independence from Europe: Contact via:theaipman@hotmail.co.uk 1. Helen Bashford 2. Gill Kearney 3. Pauline Penny 4. Kay Bashford 5. Faye Raw 6. Lorna Markovitch 7. Jennie Ransome 8. Jill Stockdale NO2EU: Contact via: http://www.no2eu.com/ 1. Roger Bannister 2. George Waterhouse 3. Jacqueline Grunsell 4. John Metcalfe 5. George Tapp 6. Mark Rowe 7. James Healy 8. Kevin Morrison Socialist Equality Party: Contact via: http://socialequality.org.uk/about/contact/ 1. Chris Marsden 2. Julie Hyland 3. Robert Skelton 4. Lucy Warren 5. Mark Dowson 6. Ajitha Gunaratne 7. Danny Dickinson 8. Joe Heffer English Democrat Party: Contact via: http://www.englishdemocrats.org.uk/contact.html 1. Stephen Morris 2. Paul Rimmer 3. Derek Bullock 4. Paul Whitelegg 5. Steven McEllenborough 6. Laurence Depares 7. Valerie Morris 8. Anthony Backhouse British National Party (NOT CONTACTED by FFU) Contact via: enquiries@bnp.org.uk 1. Nick Griffin 2. Dawn Charlton 3. Clive Jefferson 4. Eddy O'Sullivan 5. Simon Darby 6. Kay Pollitt 7. Derek Adams 8. David O'Loughlin

Think about the impact your vote can have in helping to stop test drilling and extraction of Unconventional Gas in the UK