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22 May 2011 by sianberry
Green MEP for London, Jean Lambert, has welcomed the news that the Ugandan Parliament has dropped its odious Anti-Homosexuality Bill following an outpouring of international condemnation. The draft legislation would have seen the introduction of the death penalty and life imprisonment for those convicted. Jean, a member of the European Parliament Gay and Lesbian Intergroup, […]
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17 May 2011 by sianberry
Met Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson announced last week that his officers would undertake an evaluation of Madeline McCann case, following a request by home secretary Theresa May. Madeleine McCann vanished during a family holiday on the Algarve in 2007. Jenny Jones, Green member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, and Green candidate for Mayor of […]
11 May 2011 by sianberry
Darren Johnson has called on the Mayor of London and the Government to remain committed to their carbon dioxide reduction targets and to deliver the funding and policies required to meet them. The Mayor expects to miss his own targets by a third if he and the Government don’t develop and deliver further policies and […]
9 May 2011 by sianberry
Jenny Jones AM has welcomed the Planning Inspectorate’s recommendation that the Mayor of London should reinstate the target to ensure 50% of new housing built in London is affordable. The Mayor dropped the target in his draft replacement London Plan, claiming that it "clearly does not work". Jenny Jones commented: "We knew the 50% target […]
Still riding high on their local election victories, the Green Party today announces its London Assembly list candidates, along with a fresh impetus and determination to double its existing two seats, currently held by Darren Johnson and Jenny Jones. The list is striking in character, for not only are seven out of the eleven candidates […]
Plans to turn Lewisham town centre into a major retail hub have drawn sharp criticism from local campaigners. Lewisham Council gave local people until last Friday to submit their views on the Lewisham Town Centre Area Action Plan, which includes proposals to seek Metropolitan Centre status for Lewisham by building 40 000 square metres of […]
3 May 2011 by sianberry
Responding to the inquest jury ruling that newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson was unlawfully killed by PC Simon Harwood at G20 protests in London, Jenny Jones, Green member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said: "Having heard all the evidence, the jury are beyond doubt that PC Harwood’s brutality was deliberate, unjustified and contributed to Ian Tomlinson’s […]
21 April 2011 by sianberry
Jenny Jones has written to the London Mayor urging him to issue a smog alert warning if the current pollution episode carries over into the Royal Wedding next week as predicted in official weather forecasts. DEFRA issue occassional smog alerts. Londoners and visitors can sign up to Airtext, which sends out alerts when pollution levels […]
19 April 2011 by sianberry
Lewisham Deptford MP Joan Ruddock is being urged to reconsider her support for a new generation of nuclear power stations in Britain, as local campaigners observe the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster next Monday. "It’s 25 years since the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine and barely 25 days since the […]
The Mayor of London has repeated his claim that "three quarters of the occasions when legal limits of PM10 concentrations were exceeded during February and March were due to pollution blown in from continental Europe". He implies that this was a major factor in Marylebone Road having 29 bad air days so far this year. […]
Green Party London Assembly Members Darren Johnson and Jenny Jones have today issued this cross-party call for a Yes vote in the forthcoming referendum: As London Assembly Members from every group we have come together to urge Londoners to vote Yes in the referendum to change the voting system. On May 5th you will have […]
14 April 2011 by sianberry
The High Court ruled today that police acted unlawfully when they "kettled" protesters during G20 demonstrations in the City of London two years ago. Two protesters – Josh Moos, a campaigner for Plane Stupid, and Hannah McClure, had challenged the restraint used against them at the Camp for Climate Action in Bishopsgate on April 1 […]
The Olympic Park will only produce 9% of its energy from renewable sources, having promised to achieve 20%. Darren Johnson commented: "This really is a miserable result. I know the organisers have had some difficulties but quite frankly this should never have been allowed to happen. It makes a mockery of the idea of a […]
An official report on the environmental impact of the Olympic Games has admitted that increases in traffic along the Olympic Route Network will lead to European legal limits on air pollution being exceeded. The modelling done by consultants employed by the Olympic Delivery Agency (ODA) states that "… the number of daily mean exceedences at […]
12 April 2011 by sianberry
Green MEP for London, Jean Lambert, has today urged Londoners to make sure that they are registered to vote in the forthcoming referendum on the Alternative Vote system with the deadline for registration just days away. Britain goes to the polls on the 5th of May to decide on whether to replace the outdated First-Past-The-Post […]
10 April 2011 by sianberry
Green MEP for London, Jean Lambert has today supported the European Parliament’s adoption of a resolution which strongly denounces sexual assaults on women in North Africa including the torturous, forced ‘virginity tests’ that have taken place in Egypt. The resolution, which focuses on the use of sexual violence in conflicts in North Africa and the […]
The Transport Minister, Norman Baker has launched a consultation on ideas for dealing with congestion on the transport system. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper he is reported to have warned of the need to fast-track changes to the rush hour because of the Olympics, warning that it would be "impossible" for the capital […]
The Mayor has re-announced a series of environmental projects with a reduced year-on-year budget. Some projects have been seriously delayed and some cut back following cuts to the London Development Agency. The Mayor risks missing a key target to insulate homes and not completing a network of new green spaces in east London. Darren Johnson […]
8 April 2011 by sianberry
The Green Party’s London Mayoral candidate, Jenny Jones, has attacked proposals to make squatting a criminal act. London currently has 360,000 households on housing waiting lists and 83,000 properties which have been empty for more than six months. But instead of getting more council homes they can actually afford, Londoners are getting hit by a […]
25 March 2011 by sianberry
London’s Green MEP, Jean Lambert will take to the streets tomorrow to join the hundreds of thousands of people using their feet to protest against the Government’s reckless public spending cuts. The March for the Alternative, led by the TUC, will unite people from across the country opposed to the package of austerity measures which […]
20 March 2011 by sianberry
London Assembly Member Jenny Jones has been selected as the party’s London Mayoral candidate, after a ballot of party members in the capital showed she had won a comfortable 67% of the vote. For her campaign website, please see: www.jennyforlondon.org.uk Jenny Jones said: "At this time of savage cuts to essential services, London needs a […]
17 March 2011 by sianberry
Boris Johnson today won a High Court ruling that will see Brian Haw removed from Parliament Square. The eviction is pending an appeal which must be lodged by March 28. Jenny Jones, Green member of the London Assembly, said: "Boris seems keen on liberty and freedom of speech if he agrees with it, but not […]
16 March 2011 by sianberry
Jean Lambert MEP, London’s Green Party Member of the European Parliament, today expressed her disappointment that the EU Commission had accepted the UK’s application to be given more time to meet EU air pollution standards. The Government’s revised proposals have to be with the Commission by November this year[1]. However, the Commission has demanded short-term […]
9 March 2011 by sianberry
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, stated that he did not believe it would be "appropriate" for him to lobby the Government against their proposal to close the Accident and Emergency unit at King George Hospital in Redbridge. This statement was made by the Mayor in response to London Assembly member, Darren Johnson’s question at […]