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17 March 2015 by sianberry
Tom Chance, Shasha Khan and Rashid Nix are announced as Green Party parliamentary candidates for Lewisham West & Penge, Dulwish & West Norwood and Croydon North respectively, along with ten pledges to Crystal Palace. The Green Party is happy to announce our three candidates for the constituencies that meet in Crystal Palace, and to launch […]
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“The Breathe Better campaign is really disappointing and inadequate compared to the scale of London’s air pollution challenge” says Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones who has criticised how the warning has been broadcast, the steps taken to protect hospitals and schools and the steps taken to reduce pollution during the high pollution period. The Mayor […]
“The Mayor should be making the case for raising the minimum wage in London to a living wage” says Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones, as the minimum wage is set to rise to £6.70, but remains well short of the living wage. The government has announced a 20p per hour increase in the national minimum […]
16 March 2015 by sianberry
“We need a police service that protects the vulnerable from the powerful” says Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones, who calls for whistle blowers to be supported by the Met and for them “to promote positive examples of staff who have blown the whistle”. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is to investigate 14 referrals detailing […]
14 March 2015 by sianberry
In this guest blog, London Green Party member Andrew Tobert tells us how he found his first ever Green Party Conference. Cast your minds back to last Friday. I was in Euston Station in London, leaving the familiar sights and smells of the city I love, the Pret-a-Mangers, the overpriced drinks. And I was going […]
12 March 2015 by sianberry
“This is a welcome recognition from TfL that 20mph should be the default speed limit in large areas of London” says Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson, as TfL announces it will cut speed limits to 20mph on Red Routes. Darren Johnson has welcomed Transport for London’s decision to cut speed limits to 20mph on Red […]
11 March 2015 by sianberry
“The Mayor’s decision to buy these weapons in advance of the Home Secretary’s approval was rash and arrogant, and a waste of public money” says Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones as Theresa May refuses to approve use of the water cannons at this time. The Evening Standard has reported that the Home Secretary is to […]
10 March 2015 by sianberry
“We have a chance to show real leadership on climate change, starting by making sure our pensions don’t fund more fossil fuel extraction” calls Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones, as she puts forward a motion to immediately freeze any investments in fossil fuel extractions and divest within five years. Jenny Jones, Green Party Member of […]
The London Assembly backs Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones’s calls for more solar installations on London schools, with the government estimating it could earn schools £3,400 per year. Only one in fifteen London schools have taken advantage of the solar photovoltaic (PV) revolution, the Green Party’s Jenny Jones AM, revealed today. The figures are based on […]
The Lambeth Green Party hit out against the council’s demolition proposal for Cressingham Gardens, with local residents calling the consultation and decision-making process “completely inadequate”. Lambeth Council should urgently explore new options for Cressingham Gardens in Tulse Hill, which have been put forward by residents, say Lambeth Green Party Councillor Scott Ainslie and Green Party […]
6 March 2015 by sianberry
London’s political leaders are failing to take seriously their responsibility to protect the capital from climate change as thousands take to the streets in a call for action. They argue that the Mayor Boris Johnsons’ refusal to listen to the opinions of the scientific community and take steps to cut London’s carbon emissions and invest […]
1 March 2015 by sianberry
Islington Green Councillor Caroline Russell welcomes the council’s decision to make fourteen in-house staff permanent who had been on agency contracts for several years, and cites it as an example of how a Green opposition can improve Islington Council. Islington Council this week made a budget commitment to give fourteen Greenspace agency staff full time contracts following […]
26 February 2015 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones joins the Mayor of London in criticising the Met’s change in protest policy calling it “a cost-cutting move that has backfired”. The new policy says the Met will not provide stewarding or traffic management services to enable demonstrations to happen. London’s deputy Mayor for policing admitted at this morning’s Police […]
Tom Chance, Green Party’s parliamentary candidate for Lewisham West and Penge, welcomes the passing of the deadline for the ZhongRong Group’s deposit and proposals for the Crystal Palace Park, stating “park users will be delighted to hear that this deal has finally fell through”. Bromley Council’s deadline for the ZhongRong Group to put forward a […]
25 February 2015 by sianberry
A recent list released by Aviva reveals the top 10 areas of casualties in London, with only one of them being addressed by the Mayor’s “Better Junction” scheme. Green Assembly Member calls the list indicative of how little the Mayor has achieved for safer roads and how much work is left to do for the […]
20 February 2015 by sianberry
“The Mayor needs to urgently reconsider the geographical range of his proposed Ultra Low Emission Zone” says Jenny Jones as roads surrounding Heathrow are predicted to not meet legal limits for NO2 by 2030, with 50 other London road locations also predicted to be over the limits by 2020. New data released by DEFRA shows […]
18 February 2015 by sianberry
Mayoral projections estimate that manufacturing will have disappeared from London by 2062, but at the current rate it will have disappeared in half the time. London Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones hit back saying “London’s flourishing manufacturing base is being squeezed out by the Mayor, who is in the pocket of big property developers”. A […]
17 February 2015 by sianberry
“Many cyclists will enjoy a quieter, less polluted route, but many others want the directness and speed of the main roads” says Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones as the planned ‘superhighway’ route 1 from Tottenham to Liverpool will result in no safety improvement on main roads. Jenny Jones has questioned whether the Mayor’s new cycling […]
“Boris Johnson has spent £12m forcing thousands of young people to undertake pointless and unpaid work” says Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones after findings showed that young people that completed the ‘workfare’ scheme were half as likely to be in paid employment at the end as those who did not. Young people should not be […]
Co-chair of the London Green Party Caroline Allen says it’s “thrilling to be a part of this major milestone” as London Green Party membership hits 10,000 and the Green Party polls third in the capital. Membership of the London Green Party has doubled in the last 3 months A new member is joining the party […]
6 February 2015 by sianberry
Caroline Russell, Islington Green Party Councillor, welcomes the ban but warns that “we should not assume that lorry danger will be fixed (alone) by these new measures” and calls for the removal of incentives to drive fast, such as piece work rates for lorry drivers. From 1st September any vehicle weighing more than 3.5 tonnes […]
3 February 2015 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson questions the decision to remove several hundred staff from the frontline of the ticket office, warning that “many station staff are going to be stretched to the limit”. Darren Johnson, Green Party Member of the London Assembly, has responded to the first tube ticket office closures today. South Wimbledon and […]
30 January 2015 by sianberry
“This trade deal is not about free trade, it’s a free-for-all, slashing regulations in favour of big business” says Green MEP Jean Lambert, who warns that the only way to protect the NHS from further privatisation is to stop the agreement. London’s Green MEP Jean Lambert will warn that a secret trade deal between the […]
“The Green Party believes a house should be a home to live in, not an asset for investors” says Co-Chair of the London Green Party Tom Chance, as the Green Party announce they will join protesters this Saturday against the soaring housing prices in London. The Green Party will be joining thousands of protesters across […]