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4 November 2015 by sianberry
Sian Berry, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, today reiterated her opposition to the Garden Bridge project. “We are told that Transport for London has reduced the amount of public money it is proposing to throw at this unnecessary vanity project. But they are still paying £10 million towards it from the transport […]
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2 November 2015 by sianberry
This week the Mayor of London announced a new London Living Wage of £9.40 per hour, up nearly 3 percent on last year. This calculation, made annually by independent experts at City Hall, is the minimum amount people need to earn to make ends meet in the capital. The fact that the London version is […]
30 October 2015 by sianberry
Sarah Cope, Camden Green Party activist and co-ordinator of the Hornsey Lane Bridge Anti-Suicide Campaign, today issued this statement to welcome Haringey Council’s decision to approve anti-suicide measures at Archway Bridge: “I started the campaign along with other local residents in late 2010, after three men died at the bridge in just over three weeks. […]
28 October 2015 by sianberry
More than three quarters of voters say they would be more likely to vote for a London mayoral candidate with a strong environmental agenda. Polling organisation ICM asked voters in Enfield and Haringey whether they would be more or less likely to vote for a candidate who would act on a range of green issues. […]
Sian Berry, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, has welcomed the move by Ucas – announced this morning by the Prime Minister – to remove candidates’ names from their application forms and pledged to mandate this for all GLA group agencies and contractors if she were Mayor. The anonymisation of applications and CVs […]
23 October 2015 by sianberry
Sian Berry, the Green candidate for Mayor of London, on Friday launches a solar energy system installed on the roof of the Busworks business centre in Holloway. The system will provide renewable electricity to power the businesses inside the building and recharge electric cars in the car park. The launch event coincides with the last […]
The Green Party candidate for London Mayor says protests outside the MIPIM property conference have her backing as they highlight that London’s rental market is out of control. Sian Berry says “the cost of private rent is out of control” and that she herself – the only Mayoral candidate who does not own her home […]
20 October 2015 by sianberry
A Green councillor in London has been inundated with grateful messages from the Muslim community after convincing her colleagues on Labour-run Islington Council to pass a motion requesting changes to the Government’s controversial Prevent scheme. Caroline Russell, the sole non-Labour member on the North London council, proposed a motion last week calling on the council […]
15 October 2015 by sianberry
The EU was on the point of ruling that the fines from VW and any other culprits in the diesel scandal should go directly to local communities, the London Green Party revealed yesterday. But it fell at the last hurdle following a Conservative wrecking tactic supported by the group on which British Tory MEPs sit. […]
Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry has welcomed this week’s ICM poll which found that more voters than ever before plan to vote Green in the London mayoral election. Thirteen percent of those polled said they would consider voting for Berry as their first preference. In the study, commissioned by campaigners Here Now, voters also expressed […]
10 October 2015 by sianberry
Sian Berry, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, has called on her fellow candidates to oppose all new airport runways in the south-east of England, not just at Heathrow. Speaking at today’s rally against Heathrow’s third runway in Parliament Square, Sian added her voice to the cross-party campaign against the proposal. She said […]
5 October 2015 by sianberry
The Green Party’s Mayoral candidate, Local Transport Spokesperson and a longstanding Green Party Assembly Member are together urging Londoners to say no to Boris Johnson’s plan for a new multi-lane road tunnel between Greenwich and Newham. A consultation ahead of an expected planning application in early 2016 is launched today by Transport for London, and […]
2 October 2015 by sianberry
The Green Party today passed a policy to call for car manufacturers to be made to pay for the public transport and walking and cycling infrastructure that would reduce the need for people to own cars. It seeks five responses to the Volkswagen scandal from the government and mayor of London. London mayoral candidate Sian […]
27 September 2015 by sianberry
In response to a new report revealing Lambeth Council holds more than £59m in fossil fuel stocks Lambeth Green Party has called for the council to once more divest, with Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry criticising the “short-sighted investment”. Lambeth Green Party today renews its call for Lambeth Council to rid its pension fund of investments […]
The Green Party’s London Mayoral candidate Sian Berry outlined her plans to work with Londoners to reshape their city in her speech to the Party’s Conference today. Speaking to delegates in Bournemouth attending the largest Green Party Autumn Conference to date, Berry focused her speech on the key message of her Mayoral campaign which she […]
24 September 2015 by sianberry
Greens on the London Assembly will push local councils to divest from fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy that benefits London, Green Mayoral candidate Sian Berry said today. It comes as a new report revealed that London Councils have a staggering £1.8bn invested in fossil fuels. Greens on the London Assembly have already led […]
23 September 2015 by sianberry
Darren Johnson, Green Party Assembly Member, suggests building new homes on top of low-rise council blocks and “working together with residents and communities” to create 70,000 new homes in the next decade to meet housing needs. Building new homes on top of existing low-rise council blocks is one of five ideas to close London’s house […]
22 September 2015 by sianberry
The London Assembly has supported Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson’s recommendation for London to have it’s own pollution test for cars, which they already perform for buses, with Darren Johnson noting that “London has the worse NO2 pollution problem of any European capital”. Responding to the allegations that VW vehicles have been tampered with in […]
4 September 2015 by sianberry
London Green Party Mayoral candidate Sian Berry Sian Berry, the Green Party’s mayoral candidate, has urged Boris Johnson to offer empty fire and police stations as emergency accommodation for refugees, and to lobby the Government to let more refugees enter the UK and settle in London. Several former police and fire stations are already being […]
2 September 2015 by sianberry
The Green Party has selected Sian Berry as their candidate for next May’s London Mayoral election. Transport campaigner Sian, who was elected as a Councillor on Camden Council last year, won an extremely close contest following a month-long internal selection process and a ballot of all London Green Party members. (From left to right) Green […]
5 August 2015 by sianberry
Green Party’s 6 Mayoral candidates line-up at a recent hustings chaired by Jean Lambert MEP (4th from right) Voting has now opened in the race to decide who will represent the Green Party as their Mayoral and Assembly candidates for next May’s London elections. With support for the Green Party in London having trebled […]
16 July 2015 by sianberry
Adam McGibbon, who steered Caroline Lucas’ successful re-election in Brighton Pavilion earlier this year, will next month join the London Green Party as their Campaign Manager for the 2016 Assembly and Mayoral elections.Adam (right) with Caroline Lucas MP after her successful re-election in 2015 As Target Constituencies Campaign Manager in the general election, McGibbon supported […]
Lambeth Green Party has welcomed Lambeth Council’s decision to put in place a borough-wide 20mph speed limit to reduce the high level of deaths and injuries on the roads. Green Councillor Scott Ainslie, pictured by Brixton Buzz On July 20th Lambeth’s Cabinet Member for Environment & Sustainability Cllr Jennifer Brathwaite is expected to confirm a proposal […]
15 July 2015 by sianberry
Leading Greens today responded to the refusal of the Home Secretary Theresa May to sanction use of the water cannon bought by the Mayor of London. Shahrar Ali, Deputy Leader of the Green Party, said: “This is welcome news to all citizens who understand the importance of peaceful protest and the meaning of policing by […]