1 December 2022
Bath and NE Somerset Green Party has selected Edmund Cannon as its candidate to stand in North East Somerset at the next General Election (to take place before the end of January 2025). Mr Cannon, as with all Green Party General Election candidates, was chosen via a ballot of all members of the local party.
Edmund Cannon said: “I am honoured to have been selected for the Greens in the local area. Having joined the Green Party only a few years ago, I have been impressed by its commitment not just to saving the environment but doing so in a socially just and democratic manner. It would be a privilege to put those worthy goals into action as a Green Party MP.”
Mr Cannon is a professor of Economics at the University of Bristol and a visiting professor at the University of Verona in Italy. A specialist in annuity and insurance markets, he has advised the UK government on pension policy. He has lived in Keynsham for the last 25 years.
He continued: “I have always been interested in how government regulation can improve the working of financial markets and have spent much of my professional life researching how the regulation-market combination can deliver security and prosperity for people in old age. My experience of advising on these issues means that I have a clear idea about how to public administration can improve the way that our society works, not just in the pension sector, but also in key areas such as transport, health and education.
“Both at national level and locally we need to face up to the challenges caused by destruction of the environment. The solution is definitely not to introduce fracking to North East Somerset – any alleged benefits of a bit more fuel a decade from now would never outweigh the associated pollution and destruction that residents would have to suffer while our beautiful countryside was destroyed.
“North East Somerset deserves an MP who will take constituency interests seriously and work to make the whole of the United Kingdom a better place. While Jacob Rees-Mogg may have been successful in using his inherited money and establishment connections to become a politician, it has become increasingly clear that he is neither a good cabinet minister or a good MP. Only recently he underlined his lack of understanding in his enthusiastic support for Liz Truss’s budget – a budget so disastrous that it necessitated emergency intervention by the Bank of England and trashed the UK’s reputation for financial stability. Even the majority of the Conservative Party realised that the budget was foolishness, which is why they have totally ditched it. Now it is time for us to ditch Mr Rees-Mogg.”
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