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Larry Sanders was the Green Party candidate for the Witney constituency by-election on 20 October 2016. He came fourth, beating UKIP into fifth place.

We live in the most unequal society in Europe. After by more than 40 years of government by the by the Establishment parties, the rich are richer while times remain tough for the rest of us. The gap between the rich and the rest has widened in health, education, housing, pensions and even years of life.

Larry has lived in Oxfordshire since 1969. He is the Green Party Spokesperson on health and social care and was leader of the Oxfordshire County Council Green Group. He has been working for people with disabilities and their carers for the past 20 years. He fought to save Witney Community Hospital in the 1990s, and is fighting to save it again, along with the community hospital in Chipping Norton.

Born in New York in 1935, Larry studied economics at CUNY, social work at Oxford and holds a law doctorate from Harvard. Larry has been active in the presidential campaign of his brother, Bernie Sanders, and stands on a similar platform. See Bernie's endorsement below, then endorse Larry yourself.

Feel free to download and print Larry Sanders leaflets and posters.

If you need large quantities, or large posters on garden stakes, please fill in the form below, or come to our Witney campaign office, Hexagon Business Centre, Avenue Four, Station Lane, Witney.

Leaflets:

• Freepost leaflet (being sent to every household in the constituency).
• Leaflet 2, more on Larry's promises: front and back.
• Leaflet 3, on how the Green Party was the only party to vote against cuts to children's centres and rural buses (see below).

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The green party has pledged to make britain fairer and less divided. We can do better.

Witney needs

• a rail line to end the A40 gridlock that cripples our economic and social life
• the right housing in the right place: affordable homes that don’t harm the environment
• an end to NHS cuts and hospital closures
• an end to the pointless cruelty of austerity. We should borrow cheaply to invest in schools, children’s centres, day centres, libraries, andmaintain roads and pavements
• a decent rural bus service
• decent prospects for our young people
• a comfortable retirement for our old people

Larry Sanders' priorities

• reduce unemployment and underemployment
• reverse privatisation of the NHS and fund it properly
• make social care free at the point of need
• introduce proportional representation so that all votes count
• ensure the richest individuals and corporations pay their full taxes
• introduce a minimum wage of £10 an hour
• end tuition fees
• restore maintenance grants for students and apprentices
• introducing rent controls to ensure better security for tenants
• invest in renewables and building insulation to fight climate change for the sake of our children and grandchildren

How can we afford this?

The Bank of England has created hundreds of billions of pounds in the last eight years for the banks. We should invest at
least some of this in essential infrastructure and services to create real wealth. This way, we could have a world class quality of life for all citizens.

In Oxfordshire, the Green Party councillors produced an alternative budget that would have protected £7 million investment in the people of Oxfordshire, including rural bus services, all the childrens centres and adult social care, at a cost of 74 p/week increase in council tax. All the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat county councillors voted against the Green budget and for the cuts.

The Greens are the alternative
Vote Larry Sanders on 20 October

Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (OCCG) plans to close all nine of Oxfordshire's community hospitals. The plans were originally released in the papers for its meeting on 29th September.

Larry Sanders, Green Party Candidate for Witney, will be joining junior doctors at a demonstration on Thursday 29th September in Bonn Square, Oxford at 6.00pm. The event, organised by Oxfordshire Keep Our NHS Public, marks the continuing opposition of junior doctors and their supporters to new contracts, which are to be imposed from October.

A LibDem leaflet is being circulated around Oxford West and Abingdon which is designed to look and feel like  an official  Green Party communication.

Bernie Sanders, Independent Senator for Vermont, brother of Larry Sanders, Green Party Parliamentary candidate for Oxford West and Abingdon, will announce tomorrow, 30 April, that he is running for President.

Earlier this week, Oxford Greens gathered in the beautiful setting of Wesley Memorial Church to hear from an inspirational figure in US politics - Bernie Sanders. 

How can we reduce tax cheating which costs us tens of billions of pounds a year? Director of the Tax Justice Network, John Christensen, spoke about tax justice at a packed open meeting hosted by Oxfordshire Green Party and held at the Friends Meeting House, Oxford, on 1 April 2015. The event was chaired by Larry Sanders, Green Party candidate for Oxford West and Abingdon.

Larry Sanders, Ann Duncan and Allyson Pollock

Around 200 people came to Oxford Town Hall on Tuesday to hear Prof. Alysson Pollock explain how the NHS has been dismantled and how to reinstate it. Listen to her talk.

She explained how over 20 years, under different governments, more and more of the NHS has been opened to private money, until the Health and Social Care Act 2012 removed the Government’s obligation to provide comprehensive free health care for all. The NHS is no longer providing a service, but an organisation commissioning contracts. The contractors can often pick and choose who they will treat.