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3 June 2018 by sianberry
A month in and the new Council administration falls in to chaos under scrutiny. Lambeth Labour faces serious questions over mistruths, misrepresentation and mismanagement A call from the Green Party for Lambeth Councillors to cut 56% from additional allowances has been rejected by Lambeth’s Labour councillors. It would have provided over £200,000 a year […]
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12 May 2018 by sianberry
While the Conservatives won 11pc of the overall vote, the Greens won 17pc and yet have no councillors because of the first-past-the-post voting system. Labour has 52 seats and the Tories have five. Meanwhile, the Lib Dems lost all three of their seats and the Greens failed to win any either. In Dalston, the […]
8 May 2018 by sianberry
Lambeth Green Party are celebrating their local election results in Lambeth on 4th May, which saw them finish second in the borough with five seats to become the official opposition to the Labour-run council [1]. In St Leonard’s ward in Streatham, where the Greens saw their candidate Scott Ainslie elected in 2014, a 9 point […]
The results are in, and Green Councillor Caroline Russell has been decisively re-elected to serve Highbury East for another four years. From an 8-vote lead in 2014 to a 666 vote majority in 2018, Caroline’s win is testimony to her years of hard work and dedication to the local residents of Highbury. Islington Greens celebrating […]
7 May 2018 by sianberry
Lewisham Green Party local election results 7 May 2018 Lewisham Green Party expresses its thanks to all those who voted for our candidates in Thursday’s elections. We took roughly 12% of the votes cast and came second in terms of average votes per candidate. In a third of Lewisham’s wards we are the second party. […]
25 April 2018 by sianberry
We urge voters in Brockley ward to re-elect John Coughlin and elect Clare Lorraine Phipps and Harvir Sangha to form an official opposition on Lewisham Council.
22 April 2018 by sianberry
Lewisham Council has looked like this for the last four years. Our councillor John Coughlin has held the only seat, one of the three for Brockley ward, not taken by Labour. John has worked hard to be a constructively critical voice, holding Labour to account on issues ranging from the Council budget to the Millwall […]
20 April 2018 by sianberry
Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance has said publically he will be voting for the Green Party in Lambeth in the local council elections on May 3rd. Pointing to the need for a stronger opposition to balance the current huge majority of the Labour Party in Lambeth, he said he would be giving all three of his […]
Last weekend, Caroline Lucas came to Highbury East to support Caroline Russell, Benali Hamdache and Ernestas Jegorovas, our Islington Green Party candidates for the local council elections. The Islington Greens gathered in Highbury Fields and greeted Lucas with big grins upon her arrival. After commenting on the great turn-out and energy of the campaign, Lucas […]
19 April 2018 by sianberry
Greens have pledged they will continue to hold the council to account if they achieve their goal of electing more Green Party councillors in Camden on 3 May. Green co-leader Caroline Lucas today joined current Camden Councillor Sian Berry and other Green candidates to launch their manifesto for the next four years. The launch took […]