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28 July 2009 by sianberry
London’s Green MEP, Jean Lambert, will join protestors at the Save Vestas Rally outside the Department for Energy and Climate Change at 6.30pm today [28th July] to demand action from the Government to support the wind energy industry and protect green jobs. Speaking ahead of the rally, Jean Lambert MEP said: "In its Energy White Paper, the government […]
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27 July 2009 by sianberry
Jean Lambert, London’s Green MEP since 1999, has lent her full support to a campaign to ensure London meets air quality laws in time for to 2012 Olympics. She will join ClientEarth, an environmental law and policy organisation, and other campaigners at City Hall this morning for the launch of CleanAir for London. The campaign is […]
23 July 2009 by sianberry
The LDA have today announced details of their programme to retrofit London’s homes with energy efficiency measures, and have allocated £9.5m additional funds. Darren Johnson believes that this scheme could be a missed opportunity for London. "The example of Kirklees Council has shown us that the success of their scheme lay in its simplicity, as […]
22 July 2009 by sianberry
The London Assembly has called on Mayor Boris Johnson to show greater ambition and leadership for London after more than a year in charge at City Hall. Assembly Members were debating the Mayor’s responses to questions about his proposed economic development, transport and planning strategies at an Assembly meeting this morning. London Assembly Chair Darren […]
At tomorrow’s meeting of the London Assembly, where the Mayor faces questioning on his emerging policies for transport, economic development and planning, Jenny Jones will ask colleagues to join her in calling on Boris Johnson to set tough targets on cutting private car and motorbike journeys in London. The motion that Jenny will put to […]
17 July 2009 by sianberry
In an urgent letter to the European Commission today, UK Green MEPs Caroline Lucas and Jean Lambert have called for an immediate suspension of plans to deport around 1,800 individuals from the so called ‘Jungle Camp’ in Calais back to Afghanistan and Iraq next week [1]. Writing to Justice, Freedom and Security Commissioner Jacques […]
16 July 2009 by sianberry
As the Government proposes that business rates should rise by an average of 10 per cent, before inflation, over the next five years, Darren Johnson is calling on the London Mayor to lobby the government to issue automatic business rate relief for all small businesses that are eligible. London’s high streets have already become casualties […]
9 July 2009 by sianberry
A report going to a Metropolitan Police Authority committee today, says that "record numbers of serial and serious traffic offenders are being disqualified from driving by courts in London." Since late 2006/07, 8,759 have been disqualified in London. Action against the estimated 400,000 uninsured drivers in London has also increased dramatically in the last five […]
7 July 2009 by sianberry
Jenny Jones has welcomed the HMIC review of public order policing. Jenny Jones said: "The Metropolitan Police have received a clear message from their own inspectorate that they have to facilitate peaceful protest, even if that means allowing some illegal behaviour. If the Met wants to keep the public’s consent then it must improve public […]
6 July 2009 by sianberry
Greens in London and Manchester today blasted a "ridiculous right-wing plan" to introduce water cannon to the Metropolitan and Greater Manchester Police. (1) The plan for the two forces to introduce water cannon was revealed yesterday in the Independent on Sunday (2). Jenny Jones, a Green Party member of the London Assembly who sits on […]
The Croydon Green Party has obtained a damning document [1] which confirms their worst fears and exposes the intention of the South London Waste Partnership. The key to the document are the numbers and codes it contains: – First, it identifies the estimated cost: 919 000 000.00 GBP, almost £1billion (see page 6 of document, […]
3 July 2009 by sianberry
The European Commission (EC) has started to reject applications for time extensions to countries meeting the legal limits for air pollution. Ten countries, including the UK, failed to reduce air pollution in time to meet the 2005 deadline for particulate (PM10) emissions and have asked for an extension to the last possible date allowed under […]
25 June 2009 by sianberry
A motion was passed this morning (25th June 2009) by the Metropolitan Police Authority to publish the Cass Report, into the death of Blair Peach, by the end of 2009. (1) The original motion, proposed by Green Party home affairs spokesperson, Jenny Jones, read: "This Authority calls on the Metropolitan Police Service to publish immediately […]
London’s Green MEP Jean Lambert has joined protests in Brussels against the adoption of legislation in Lithuania which will outlaw the discussion of homosexuality in schools. On the 16th of June, the Lithuanian parliament adopted an amended Law on the "Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information." According to this law, "propaganda of […]
24 June 2009 by sianberry
A motion will be debated tomorrow (25th June) in a meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority, calling for the police to "publish immediately the full report by former Commander Cass into the death of Blair Peach." Blair Peach was knocked unconscious in an April 1979 demonstration in Southall by the Anti-Nazi League against a National […]
18 June 2009 by sianberry
Jean Lambert, London’s Green Party MEP, has welcomed news of the successful end to the occupation of SOAS by students and activists in support of cleaning staff arrested last week. Students and activists occupied the School of Oriental and African Studies in Bloomsbury after a dawn raid by immigration officers last Friday [12 June], when […]
17 June 2009 by sianberry
The Metropolitan Police’s efforts to combat human trafficking are under threat following the Mayor’s confirmation that funding has not been secured beyond 2009/10. The UK’s only specialised human trafficking unit was launched by the Metropolitan Police in 2007 with full funding from the Home Office. But this contribution has been cut back, covering only half […]
16 June 2009 by sianberry
Jean Lambert, London’s Green MEP, has written to the Home Office after it emerged that six of the SOAS cleaners arrested on Friday 12 June were removed from the UK over the weekend. Jean Lambert has asked the Home Office to clarify the procedures that immigration officers are expected to follow, after details of the detention and […]
This article can be read and commented on at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree It’s disappointing to see someone of Leo Hickman’s stature reinforcing old stereotypes. His assertion that the Greens are a "one-issue" party is plainly wrong and his reasoning – that "the clue’s in the name" – doesn’t entirely stack up. Let’s think about this for a […]
Commenting ahead of tomorrow’s demonstration by the Guide dogs for the Blind Association, outside of City Hall, Jenny Jones said: "I will be asking the Mayor to agree to a moratorium on the Exhibition Road share space scheme until the situation has been clarified. I’m very nervous about the schemes proposed so far and hope […]
The London Assembly has welcomed the publication of a study by the London School of Economics about the economic impact of introducing an earned regularisation of irregular migrants to the UK. In October 2008 Assembly Members called on Mayor Boris Johnson to commission the research and join the Assembly in lobbying the UK Government to […]
12 June 2009 by sianberry
Jean Lambert MEP and Jenny Jones AM have condemned the arrest of nine cleaning workers at SOAS this morning. It is believed that the staff, mainly of Ecuadorian and possibly Colombian origin, have been arrested and are being processed for deportation. A demonstration had been organised at SOAS this morning in support of Stalin Bermudez, […]
11 June 2009 by sianberry
Westminster Council’s action to set up Maida Hill street market, London’s first street market in 50 years, has been welcomed by Jenny Jones. She recently sent a question to the Mayor about an earlier commitment to carry out an investigatation into whether existing planning policies support street markets. Figures show that there is a large […]
10 June 2009 by sianberry
Following allegations that six Metropolitan Police Officers tortured suspects using the waterboarding technique during a drugs raid in November 2008, Metropolitan Police Authority Member Jenny Jones said: "If these accusations are substantiated, then serious disciplinary action must be taken against those involved, and a thorough investigation into how it could have happened. The Police should […]