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15 April 2015 by sianberry
Jean Lambert, Green MEP for London, calls for “greater search and rescue” efforts to “prevent catastrophe” as well as introducing “safe access routes” to avoid migrants taking riskier routes to “avoid increasingly restrictive land borders”. With 8000 desperate people being picked up in the Mediterranean in under a week, it is clear that we have […]
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13 April 2015 by sianberry
The Green Party has called for tougher planning enforcement and an extra £6bn social housing grant for London up to 2020, in light of figures published by the Mayor of London showing that just 28% of new homes built in 2013/14 in London were affordable, the lowest proportion since 2005/06. This is down from 35% […]
10 April 2015 by sianberry
“Measures such as making public transport free for the day should be considered during serious smog episodes in Britain” calls Green MEP Keith Taylor who also calls for the government to follow France’s example. Keith Taylor, Green MEP for South East England, is calling for public transport across South East England and London to be […]
7 April 2015 by sianberry
“The Green Party’s policies are at the cutting edge of what we need in this society” says Former Vice-Chair of TfL Dave Wetzel, who has left Labour to be a Green Party Parliamentary candidate for Hounslow, where he was the leader of the Labour council in the 90s. Dave Wetzel, former Vice-Chair of Transport for […]
1 April 2015 by sianberry
Jonathan Bartley, Green Parliamentary candidate for Streatham, hits out at the Lambeth Council saying “it is a scandal that Lambeth Council is happy to blame everyone else rather than get its own house in order” and urging the Labour-led council to clean up its act and follow its own transport plan. Lambeth Green Party has […]
30 March 2015 by sianberry
The Green Party has announced that half of the London Green Party parliamentary candidates will be women and will also include the first ever out trans man to stand for parliament, Charlie Kiss. The Co-Chairs of the London Green Party today stated their “immense pride” as the party unveiled that half of their general election […]
26 March 2015 by sianberry
“Labour have lost touch with ordinary people” says Green Party Parliamentary candidate for Streatham, Jonathan Bartley, who challenges Ed Miliband to disprove him by overturning the Labour council’s decision on Tulse Hill housing. A member of the audience challenged Labour leader Ed Miliband over Labour’s destruction of a Tulse Hill Community in last night’s “The Battle […]
25 March 2015 by sianberry
“The Mayor needs to ask whether the extra road capacity, with all the accompanying growth in pollution and also congestion elsewhere on the road network, is now needed” says Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson, who expresses concern on how this will affect the environment and how future maintenance of the structure will work. Plans to […]
22 March 2015 by sianberry
Party calls for Southern, Southeastern, and Thameslink companies to be brought into public hands and management of London Bridge project to be taken over by Transport for London Only root and branch reform will end passenger misery, say Greens Party also pledges to introduce 12% cut in rail fare The Green Party has today launched […]
19 March 2015 by sianberry
Crossrail 2 project will “drive up housing costs in relatively affordable parts of London without further action” warns Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson who calls for a land value tax to dampen the rise in prices and help fund the project. Darren Johnson AM has called for the Mayor of London to gain powers to […]