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19 November 2015 by sianberry
Sian Berry, the Green candidate for Mayor of London, has written to George Osborne in advance of his Autumn Statement on 25 November calling on him to scrap the tax relief which landlords can currently claim on mortgage interest. Berry says in her letter: “Using the proceeds from the cut in tax relief for landlords […]
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18 November 2015 by sianberry
This week Caroline Russell, the Green Party’s No 2 candidate for the London-wide section of the London Assembly, visited Newham in advance of her election campaign. She issued this statement after seeing the double concrete wall cutting through Silvertown to create the route of the new Crossrail line. “This ugly, impassable barrier runs right through […]
17 November 2015 by sianberry
Caroline Russell, the Green Party’s local transport spokesperson and No.2 on the party’s London-wide list of candidates for the London Assembly, was one of several London politicians at a meeting organised by the No To Silvertown campaign in Greenwich last week. She issued this statement after the meeting: “I came to listen to residents and […]
The London Green Party today issued the following statement on the amendment to the order of its list of candidates for the London-wide section of the London Assembly. The Green Party uses Electoral Reform Services, an independent organisation, to conduct internal elections. On reviewing the result of our London Assembly list election it emerged that […]
11 November 2015 by sianberry
Reacting to today’s announcement by the Halifax that the value of homes in London is now almost double that of all the properties in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Green Party mayoral candidate Sian Berry said: “It’s no surprise that London’s housing stock is worth the same as all the properties in vast areas of […]
10 November 2015 by sianberry
“If we fail to leave space in our city for creativity to flourish there will be no designers or artists left in London” Commenting on the news that Southwark Council has rejected plans to turn the old Peckham multi-storey car park into 800 artists’ studios in favour of a rival proposal from a Mayfair-based property […]
9 November 2015 by sianberry
Responding to Zac Goldsmith’s announcement that he wants to make it harder for Tube workers to go on strike, Green Party mayoral candidate Sian Berry said: “My Conservative rival for Mayor of London says he wants to ‘protect Londoners from Tube strikes’. But Tube workers are Londoners too and threatening them is not the answer. […]
The Green Party’s candidate for the Mayor of London elections next year, Sian Berry, pledged to make City Hall drop its top-down grand projects, and set-up a unit to support community trusts trying to run the park and sports centre, library and housing estates. She met with representatives of the Crystal Palace Park Community Stakeholder […]
This morning Sian Berry, Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, issued the following pledges to mark Equal Pay Day, the day when women effectively start working for free for the rest of the year: “Half of part-time working women earn less than the living wage. London needs a Mayor who’ll stand up for women […]
6 November 2015 by sianberry
The Green Party’s local transport spokesperson Caroline Russell today expressed her support for the £42 million “Mini Holland” scheme in Enfield, known locally as Cycle Enfield, following the decision by the borough’s Conservative opposition to oppose the project. “Mini Holland has benefits for all residents and people working in the area who stand to gain […]
5 November 2015 by sianberry
Reacting to the news that people camped out in the streets through the night in West London in the early hours of Thursday morning just to have the chance to purchase a studio flat for £199,000 which won’t even be ready until 2017, Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry said: “If you want one graphic illustration […]
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 […]
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 […]