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25 January 2010 by sianberry
The Green Party’s Parliamentary Candidate for Dulwich and West Norwood, Shane Collins, presented Reverend Al Sharpton with a Brixton Pound at the Operation Black Vote ‘Register to Vote’ meeting on Thursday 21st January at Friends Meeting House in Euston. Shane Collins said: "The Reverend Sharpton comes from Harlem, the spiritual home of Marcus Garvey. His […]
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19 January 2010 by sianberry
New Government research to be released today has shown that 180,000 homes have been built on back gardens in the past five years. It picks out the London suburbs as a hot-spot of garden grabbing. "Having consistently raised this issue in recent years, I was pleased to see the Mayor finally put a clear statement […]
15 January 2010 by sianberry
The Green Party are the most likely contenders to challenge Labour in Lewisham Deptford at the upcoming general election, according to bookmakers. Betting chain Ladbrokes are offering odds of 12/1 on Green candidate Darren Johnson snatching the seat from sitting MP and current favourite, Labour’s Joan Ruddock. At the last general election, the Greens were […]
14 January 2010 by sianberry
The Green Party’s General Election candidate for Vauxhall, Joseph Healy, has been named as the first candidate to support the campaign by Carer Watch to restore the right to unconditional benefits for people diagnosed with serious and enduring illness, some with just months left to live. Following the introduction of the Welfare Reform Act last […]
12 January 2010 by sianberry
London’s Green MEP, Jean Lambert, spoke at a demonstration outside the US embassy in London yesterday – 11th January – the eighth anniversary of the opening of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. (1) She has also submitted a parliamentary written question asking the European Commission to clarify what steps have been taken by Member […]
8 January 2010 by sianberry
Londoners are being urged to make buying local produce one of their New Year’s resolutions, as a new report calls for changes to the planning system to exploit the capital’s potential to become more self-sufficient. ‘Cultivating the Capital: Food growing and the planning system in London'[1], by the London Assembly’s Planning and Housing Committee, highlights the need […]
5 January 2010 by sianberry
Lewisham councillor and Chair of the London Assembly, Darren Johnson, will be aiming to freeze bus fares when he seeks to amend the Mayor’s draft budget. The £75m that the Mayor is raising from the 12% bus fare increase would instead be raised mostly from motorists, with the reinstatement of the £25 emissions charge on […]
17 December 2009 by sianberry
Reacting to the news that tube upgrade works are under threat, as Tube Lines, the public private partnership (PPP) responsible for the work, faces a £1.5 billion funding shortfall, Green Party Member of the London Assembly, Jenny Jones, said: "Tube Lines staggered on after Metronet collapsed, but it is now clearly seen as part of the […]
11 December 2009 by sianberry
Lewisham councillor and Chair of the London Assembly, Darren Johnson, will be aiming to freeze bus fares when he seeks to amend the Mayor’s draft budget which is published today (11th December). The £75m the Mayor is raising from the 12% bus fare increase will instead come mostly from motorists, with the reinstatement of the £25 […]
9 December 2009 by sianberry
Main Hall, Hornsey Vale Community Centre, 60 Mayfield Road, Stroud Green, Haringey Sunday 13th December 2009 from 3pm to 6.30pm Justice and Human Rights MEP of the year 2005, and London Green MEP, Jean Lambert, is to attend an Amnesty International Greetings Card signing event at Hornsey Vale Community Centre in Haringey to highlight the plight of […]
3 December 2009 by sianberry
Haringey Green Party’s local election campaign has received a significant boost with the news that recently elected national party Chair, Jayne Forbes, is to join Stroud Green ward candidates Anna Bragga and Sarah Cope forming an all-female slate. The duo welcomed the news seeing the move as a natural progression for their increasingly high profile campaign […]
1 December 2009 by sianberry
The European Commission has revealed that it is deciding whether it will take further legal action against the UK over plans to meet EU air quality standards in London. The UK missed its deadline this year for tackling high levels of harmful airborne particles (PM10) and has submitted an application for a delay until 2011. […]
London Green Party will be launching its campaign and manifesto for the London borough elections at the northern side of the Millennium Bridge on Tuesday 16 April. Darren Johnson, Leader of the Greens on the London Assembly said: "Decent local services are at the heart of the Green Party’s vision of strong local communities. Local […]
A major event is taking place in Stratford Town Hall today (1st December) to launch the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. Jean Lambert, London’s Green Party MEP, is giving one of the opening speeches at the event where experts in the field will be discussing ways to reduce poverty and inequality. Local residents and […]
24 November 2009 by sianberry
In response to Jonathan Montgomery, Human Genetics Commission chair, who said that "function creep" over the years had transformed the national DNA database of offenders into one of suspects, the Green Party’s Home Affairs spokesperson and member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, Jenny Jones, said: "I will again challenge the Met on their failure to […]
22 October 2009 by sianberry
Joan Ruddock, Minister for Climate Change and Lewisham Deptford MP, has dismissed as "uncosted and untested" the 10:10 motion to reduce carbon emissions tabled yesterday in parliament. Lewisham councillor Darren Johnson, Chair of the London Assembly, said: "It’s a glaring contradiction for Joan Ruddock to personally support the 10:10 campaign, and for Lewisham Council to […]
The European Parliament has today passed a resolution calling for the rapid return of the 250,000 detainees still held in camps in northern Sri Lanka following the defeat of the LTTE by the government earlier this year. MEPs also called on the Sri Lankan government to urgently deliver humanitarian assistance to the Tamil civilians held […]
21 October 2009 by sianberry
Jenny Jones, Green Party Member of the London Assembly, has secured a commitment from the Olympic Delivery Authority to work to make poverty pay history as a key legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In a London Assembly session today, she pressed David Higgins, Chief Executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority, to […]
11 October 2009 by sianberry
The Haringey Green Party received a welcome boost to their election campaign when the Green Party’s Deputy Leader, Adrian Ramsay, dropped by to share tips and advice and meet Stroud Green residents in a canvassing tour of the ward. Accompanied by Stroud Green candidates Anna Bragga and Sarah Cope, Ramsay knocked on doors and spoke […]
6 October 2009 by sianberry
The London Mayor’s Air Quality Strategy seems unlikely to reduce particulate emissions (PM10) by enough to meet the European Commission’s legally binding targets by 2012. The strategy is the decisive factor in whether the Government will be fined an estimated £300m by the European Commission. The Government has made clear to the European Commission that […]
The Waltham Forest and Redbridge Green Party has launched a petition about the Arcade site in central Walthamstow. The petition calls on the council to ensure that any development of the site takes account of some basic principles – buildings should be in sympathy with the character of Walthamstow, no building should be above 6 […]
29 September 2009 by sianberry
Campaigners based in Thamesmead are going to court to challenge a decision to allow 50% more flights to use London City Airport. Fight The Flights, which is backed by Greenwich Green Party, says Newham Council should have taken into account long-term government plans to cut aviation emissions, and had failed to consult neighbouring councils before […]
New figures show that a total of 2,898 black cabs failed their mid year pollution test prior to the London Mayor abolishing the tests in November last year. A further 1,452 cabs were temporarily taken off the road for failures relating to the brakes. The mid year inspections operated for thirteen months between the 1st […]
25 September 2009 by sianberry
At September’s full Council meeting, the Labour group in Hackney proposed a motion congratulating the Labour government on its investment in the Building Schools for the Future programme, and berating the likely cuts in education spending by a future Tory government. Hackney Green Cllr Mischa Borris abstained in the vote. She commented, "Of course the Green […]