Found via the 8th Wonder of the World: Archive.org
Sadly, I can't find a better quality of picture but I'll take what I can get. An architecture/politics piece from the New Statesman that dates from the 10th of June, 1983. It would have tied in with the General Election that was taking place that month. That election where Thatcher trounced Foot, and the Party was contesting Chris Smith's seat in Islington South and Finsbury.
I've cropped the picture and blurb for the Party's Head Office, but it's not the best. For those of you who can't read the text, it reads as follows:
"Good for the SPGB — the only party with the courage to say who they are, and in tasteful sans-serif lettering. The Ecology Party masquerades behind the Yuk Chuen Chinese Restaurant and the Jearlene Unisex hairdressers. The far left and far right can always be identified by their taste for barricades wire mesh perimeter fencing and other forms of security (e.g., SWP, CP and, below, the Conservative Party)."
A piece so old the Green Party were still called the Ecology Party, and my only political activity in that year - in fact, it was in that actual month - was me waving back at Paul Boateng as he went around the local constituency waving at bemused Saturday shoppers from the top of an open-topped double decker election bus. (I was a polite kid.)
Posted below is the full article from that issue of the New Statesman. You'll have to click on the image to make it larger. Good luck reading the text!
