Darren Johnson said, "The Liberal Democrats are so concerned about the environment that they could not even bother to respond to Greenpeace when asked about their policies on three major issues of environmental concern – Chemicals, Forestry and Climate Change. Tories and Labour did not respond but that is no surprise. The Liberal Democrats, however play on their environmental record but support road building and further airport expansion when it suits them. The fact that they did not respond to Greenpeace shows what contempt they have for one of the UK’s leading environmental campaigning groups. "
The Green Party gave full and comprehensive answers to Greenpeace on all aspects of their policy. To date Wednesday 9th June, the other main parties still had not responded.
In a Friends of the Earth survey on environmental policy, the Green Party scored higher points than all the main parties including the Liberal Democrats even when adding their scores together. Greens were twice as good as the Liberal Democrats, five times as good as Labour and over seven times as good as the Tories.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
· Darren Johnson is 38 and was selected as the Green Party’s candidate for Mayor of London in May 2003. He was elected to the London Assembly in May 2000 where he is Leader of the Green Party Group. He was also elected to Lewisham Council in May 2002.
· The Mayoral election will be held on June 10th at the same time as the elections for the London Assembly and the European Parliament. At the last Assembly elections the Greens scored one of their best ever results in the Party’s history, securing 11.1% of the vote across London and winning three seats on the 25-member Assembly.
· Darren Johnson’s vision for a sustainable Green London can be found on his website www.johnsonformayor.org.uk
· Jean Lambert is London’s Green Member of the European Parliament and she is No 1 on the list for the London Green Party. Her website is www.jeanlambertmep.org.uk
· Green Party Assembly Members are Cllr. Darren Johnson AM, Deputy Mayor Jenny Jones AM and Noel Lynch AM