Caroline Lucas, MEP, visited the Vestas protest site in Newport on the Isle of Wight on October 09/2009. She had lunch with the climate change activists, socialists and ex-workers.
Caroline Lucas, MEP (Green Party) for the South East Region, paid the Vestas protest site on the Isle of Wight a visit. She met with ex-workers who were sacked without any redundancy pay after staging a sit-in protest at the factory several weeks ago. She also met with climate change activists and socialists. A lunch of pumpkin soup was prepared by Marina Pepper, a full-time climate activist and served to Caroline and others at the lunch event. She said that it was a 'privilege' to meet the ex-workers and was impressed at how the 'greens and reds' were able to work together in the protest. She then bought a 'Save Vestas' t-shirt, which she promptly put on and accepted a gift of a 10:10 necklace.

























