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30 April 2021 / 30 April 2021 by London Green Party
Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley has pledged a ‘revolution from the bottom up’ through a Green Recovery plan. Speaking at the socially-distanced launch of the Green’s local election campaign in London’s Battersea Park, Bartley asserted that ‘we need a transformation across every single sector of the economy’ in a way that will ‘share the prosperity […]
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27 April 2021 / 27 April 2021 by London Green Party
Sian Berry has made a campaign promise to set goals for “zero murders” in the city by 2031 if she is voted in as London mayor on 6 May. The Green party candidate believes that focusing on crime prevention is the way to achieve her vision. “I’ll fund the schemes which create an environment where violence […]
25 April 2021 / 25 April 2021 by London Green Party
London’s millions of renters need better protection, according to the Green Party’s candidate for London Mayor, Sian Berry. Sian has promised that if elected, she will champion the rights of renters by reducing rents and raising the standard of housing in the capital. Sian says: ‘As Mayor, I will stand alongside millions of renters like […]
23 April 2021 / 23 April 2021 by London Green Party
Sian Berry launched her election manifesto as she outlined plans to make London “the greenest city in the world”. Speaking at a council estate in Lambeth, Sian launched the manifesto saying “Londoners are crying out for a new start, and Greens are ready to roll up our sleeves and transform this city. London should be […]
21 April 2021 / 21 April 2021 by London Green Party
London needs repair centres on every high street to help cut landfill waste and incineration, according to Sian Berry, Green London Assembly member and Mayoral candidate. Among her election pledges, Sian wants to publish a waste reduction strategy that would include a new fund to help councils and local enterprises turn empty high street shops […]
18 April 2021 / 18 April 2021 by London Green Party
Sian Berry has pledged to set up a habitat crime unit to protect London’s wild spaces if she is elected mayor of London in May. Berry said: “We are in a climate and ecological emergency. We need a unit that specialises in crimes relating to pollution, harms to habitat and damage to animals. I think that’s really important to have, and it […]
16 April 2021 / 16 April 2021 by London Green Party
London bus drivers are three times more likely to die from COVID-19, according to a report commissioned by TFL. The UCL Institute of Health Equity study, published in March went onto conclude: ‘Breathing problems appear to be a pre-existing issue reported by many London bus drivers, exacerbated in those self-reporting COVID-19 symptoms’. Green party London […]
13 April 2021 / 13 April 2021 by London Green Party
The Green Party has condemned the summary of a report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities as a deliberate attempt to whitewash institutional racism. The members of the Commission, set up in the wake of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, were chosen by no. 10 advisor Munira Mirza, and its report confirms her […]
11 April 2021 / 11 April 2021 by London Green Party
Britain’s leading political parties, including the Greens, have banded together to demand the government ban conversion therapy. The group, which includes LGBT+ Conservatives, the Labour Party and Plaid Cymru, have written a letter to equalities minister, Liz Truss, urging immediate action. According to Stonewall, “Conversion therapy (or ‘cure’ therapy or reparative therapy) refers to any […]
7 April 2021 / 7 April 2021 by London Green Party
More than 1,200 people were injured and 68 people were killed while walking on or alongside London’s roads in 2019, according to figures revealed by a leading Green politician. Caroline Russell, a member of the London Assembly, also showed that 261 junctions in London contain no pedestrian crossing signals. The Assembly unanimously supported Caroline’s motion […]
5 April 2021 / 5 April 2021 by London Green Party
Sian Berry wants teenagers on the London Youth Assembly granted new powers to hold the Mayor to account. She’s pledged them more resources to investigate issues, write reports, the power to question the Mayor at several annual Youth Assembly Question Time events and submit official written questions all year round. “Young people have shown more […]
3 April 2021 / 3 April 2021 by London Green Party
We are spending billions on building new roads, but we are well short on funding for cycling, according to Jenny Jones, House of Lords Green Party peer. Jones states: ‘The evidence available shows that building more roads encourages greater vehicle use and a side effect of that is both pollution [what Jones refers to as […]
31 March 2021 / 31 March 2021 by London Green Party
Eurostar has asked the UK government for a bail out having suffered huge losses during the Covid 19 pandemic. Annual revenues fell from £1billion in 2019 to around £180milllion in 2020 and services slashed from 50 a day to 2. But Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said last month that as the company is majority-owned by the French, and the UK sold their stake in 2015, it is ‘not our company […]
28 March 2021 / 28 March 2021 by London Green Party
Sian Berry has condemned the Metropolitan police mismanagement of the recent Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard. The Green Party co-leader said: “I can’t think of a more shameful way for an organisation to have handled this whole situation. “There was no chance of this being a violent event if it had been left in […]
26 March 2021 / 26 March 2021 by London Green Party
Even though it has been a long time coming, Sian Berry, London Assembly member and Green party candidate for Mayor, welcomed the news that hate crimes motivated by misogyny, will be recorded by the police from autumn 2021. Sian had called on the Mayor of London to make this a priority for the Met since […]
24 March 2021 / 24 March 2021 by London Green Party
The government’s airport expansion plans for Heathrow and Gatwick severely undermine efforts to cut air pollution and carbon emissions, and are completely at odds with the UK’s role as chair of this year’s COP, according to Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley. Bartley reiterated: ‘It makes no sense to talk about climate ambition as a priority […]
22 March 2021 / 22 March 2021 by London Green Party
Lambeth Greens have set out an ‘alternative budget’ for the London borough, after a disappointing budget by the ruling Labour group. The Greens are proposing trialling universal basic income in Lambeth as well as piloting a four-day work week. The existing budget makes no mention of the climate emergency, and the Green group are severely […]
20 March 2021 / 20 March 2021 by London Green Party
The Green candidate for the London Mayoral race has has attacked the treatment of key workers by the government during the Covid crisis. Sian Berry said that health secretary Matt Hancock left workers “exposed” to coronavirus and attacked chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak for “ignoring nurses who need a pay rise”. Berry made the […]
Fines for many traffic violations have not increased in over a decade in London. Fines for illegally parking in a bus lane or a red route, or for breaking loading restrictions, are still at 2011 levels. ‘This is effectively a ten year “fines freeze” for thoughtless driving in London,’ according to Caroline Russell, Green London […]
17 March 2021 / 17 March 2021 by London Green Party
Despite lockdown, almost 100 people died on London’s roads in 2020, and in recent years progress towards Sadiq Khan’s 2041 target of zero road deaths has slowed. Sian Berry, Green London Assembly member and mayoral candidate, is calling for a more radical target and approach, achieving ‘vision zero’ ahead of schedule with a 20mph speed […]
15 March 2021 / 15 March 2021 by London Green Party
The Greater London Assembly has backed a motion by Green Party Mayoral Candidate, Sian Berry, calling on the government to provide support and funding for a trial of Universal Basic Income (UBI). The Greater London Assembly joins 27 other local authorities across the UK in calling for trials to be implemented Sian Berry and fellow Green Party Assembly Member, Caroline Russell, have long campaigned for City Hall to back a UBI scheme in […]
13 March 2021 / 13 March 2021 by London Green Party
Green Party Co-leader, Jonathan Bartley, has condemned Lambeth Council’s decision to award a massive contract to Serco. Serco is controversial for its running of the Yarls’s Wood immigration detention centre, its involvement with NHS privatisation, the ‘hostile environment’ policies of the government and the failing test & trace programme. But the Labour-led council decided to […]
12 March 2021 / 12 March 2021 by London Green Party
The Green Party of England and Wales has voted overwhelmingly to back calls for a 15 percent pay-rise for NHS health and care workers. It was the result of a motion brought by Green Party candidate for Sheffield City Council Rebecca Mulvaney at the recent spring party conference. This was after the government announced its […]
10 March 2021 / 10 March 2021 by London Green Party
London’s new rules for developers of new public spaces must ban the use of facial recognition cameras, according to Sian Berry, Green London Assembly member and mayoral candidate. Since 2016, Sian has worked with campaigners to win new policies from the mayor to stop arbitrary rules being imposed in new public squares. “The freedom to sit, […]