"Jim has lived in Oldham for over 50 years, with a wide working experience in the cotton mills, in engineering, maintenance and street services.

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Now retired, Jim is an allotment gardener and an active member of local Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth groups, as well as Beal Valley Rescue. Deeply concerned with local, national and global social and environmental issues, Jim is working for a better world and future for his children, grandchildren, great grandchild and all of us.

In this election the Green Party want to revive our local communities after years of devastating cuts – Green councillors across the country are campaigning to restore the £50 billion of public money that has been taken from councils and electing Greens sends a strong message to Westminster that people have had enough of losing long cherished public services."