David Taylor (born 1957 or 1958) is an environmentalist and politician in England. Taylor was a founder member of the Green Party of England and Wales. In the 1980s, he founded the Green Gatherings festival, and also organised the litter picking at the

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.David Taylor
, Green Party of England and Wales He also organised the Bath Anti-Nuclear Group. Derek Wall,
The Ecology Party in the early 1980s
, ''Another Green World'', 7 November 2006 Taylor served as a

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of the party from 1994 to 1997 alongside first

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and then

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. During this time, he campaigned for a decentralised party, committed to

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. He was a Green Party in Northern Ireland candidate for Belfast West at the

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election in 1996, on a list which took only 156 votes. At the 1997 general election, he stood in Yeovil, where he took 1.3% of the votes cast. He has also stood for the South West England European Parliament constituency at each election since 1999, heading the party list in

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and

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. The lists took between 7 and 10% of the votes cast, but he was not elected. Taylor also runs a

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and retreat in Somerset.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, David 1957 births Living people Green Party of England and Wales parliamentary candidates