Your candidate: Godfrey Spickernell

standing in the 2010 general election for chelsea & fulham

  Godfrey was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and was later brought up in Wiltshire. He read Chinese at Cambridge, and after becoming a lawyer in a city firm he went to work in China for several years.

Godfrey first heard about global warming in an ‘O’ level physics lesson in 1978. He remembers the exact moment, and desk he was sitting in. What seemed so awful was that it was clearly not just a theory, but the inevitable result of applying the elementary laws of physics they had just been studying.

Godfrey has set aside his career as a lawyer to try and ‘do something’ about climate change, and this has led him to set up the Blue Environment Party. He hopes to give a voice to people like himself who are passionate and concerned about the earth and its future, but have conservative instincts and are reserved about protests and demonstrations. ‘There are many of us, and we should be a much greater force in the land’, he says.

He now lives with his family in Kentish Town where they are ‘3 years into a 1 year project’ to do up their crumbling Victorian house.

 

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