Ecology Party Ecology Party The Ecology Party was a political party in the United Kingdom. It succeeded the People Party after a name change in 1975. The Ecology Party was the second step for Green politics in Britain and the grassroots of the Green Party of England and Wales. The party won its first representation in 1976, when John Luck took a seat on Rother District Council in East Sussex, and party campaign secretary John Davenport won a parish council seat in Kempsey. Jonathan Tyler was elected as the first chairman of the party in 1976, and Jonathon Porritt became a prominent
Political party of a party whip and the implementation of efficient structures of control. The Home Rule League Party, campaigning for Home Rule for Ireland in the British Parliament was fundamentally changed by the great Irish political leader Charles Stewart Parnell in the 1880s. In 1882, he changed his party's name to the Irish Parliamentary Party and created a well-organized grass roots structure, introducing membership to replace "ad hoc" informal groupings. He created a new selection procedure to ensure the professional selection of party candidates committed to taking their seats, and in 1884 he imposed a firm 'party pledge' which obliged MPs