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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 […]
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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 […]