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5 May 2009 by sianberry
Jenny Jones AM will take the Chair of the Planning and Housing Committee. This year, the Committee will respond to the consultation for the Mayor’s new London Plan, monitor the implementation of his Housing Strategy, as well as investigate urban agriculture and support for local shopping centres. Jenny’s biography is available at: http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/members/jonesj/biog.jsp Jenny […]
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The London Assembly has today elected Darren Johnson AM as its new Chair for 2009/10, with Jennette Arnold AM taking over the role of Deputy Chair. At their annual meeting Assembly Members also re-established a number of committees to examine the Mayor of London’s policies and investigate issues of importance to London. Chair of the […]
1 May 2009 by sianberry
Cautiously welcoming the Mayor’s announcement of £3m to develop 10 flagship Low Carbon Zones, Darren Johnson said that a holistic, area based approach is the right one, but that much more investment and ambition is needed. "Given that it takes an estimate £11,000 for a home to achieve the 80% cut in emissions needed, it […]
Air pollution in the capital may have contributed to the deaths of an estimated 3,000 people in one year (1), but bold action from the Mayor could dramatically improve the air we breathe, a London Assembly report today reveals. The Assembly Environment Committee report says London’s air quality – amongst the worst in the UK […]
Originally published at the Guardian’s Comment Is Free Well, it could have been worse… What a surprise. What might have been a verbal bloodbath – a confrontation between vocal diehard protesters in the gallery, a pro-police Tory mayor chairing the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) and the many-viewed MPA members themselves – turned into a positive […]
Jean Lambert, Green Party MEP for London, gave her backing last night to a new scheme which will support refugee groups launch green projects. The Evelyn Oldfield Unit, which supports community work by refugee organisations across London, will offer training courses to groups thinking of setting up environmental projects – from recycling to horticulture or […]
30 April 2009 by sianberry
Jenny Jones, Green Party member of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), today spoke warmly of the outcomes of the MPA’s discussion of the Met’s handling of the G20 protests. She said: "I welcome the creation of the civil liberties panel, and the fact that its first job will be to examine the policing of […]
Originally published at http://www.politics.co.uk We’ve all been surprised at how quickly public confidence in the Met police has fallen in the past month, in spite of crime dropping, public satisfaction often very high, and more and more officers on the streets. It shows that we probably have very high expectations of our police force, and […]
29 April 2009 by sianberry
Jean Lambert, London’s Green Party MEP, will add her voice to the largest-ever call for justice for migrants, joining thousands of demonstrators at the Strangers Into Citizens rally in central London on Bank Holiday Monday 4 May. Jean will be among speakers addressing the marchers at a rally in Trafalgar Square, where Asian Dub Foundation […]
Jean, London’s Green Party MEP, will speak at The Environment Event, the launch of a training programme at the Evelyn Oldfield Unit (EOU) in Holloway this evening [Wednesday 29 April]. EOU, which supports community work by refugee organisations across London, will offer training courses to groups thinking of setting up environmental projects – from recycling […]
Jean Lambert, London’s Green Party MEP, will make a May Day call for the London Living Wage (LLW). She will join students, staff and union activists from the university colleges in Bloomsbury on a march this Friday 1 May, International Worker’s Day, to call for all employees to be paid a Living Wage, currently £7.45 […]
28 April 2009 by sianberry
Negotiations between the European Parliament and the European Council – the last of which were held last night – have failed to reach a compromise position on the Working Time Directive. The European Parliament voted to end the UK’s opt-out from the Directive in December 2008, but after weeks of negotiations the UK Government has […]
24 April 2009 by sianberry
Jean Lambert, London’s Green Party MEP, will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of feminism, by taking part in a debate about the position of women in politics today. The discussion on "Political Power for Women: How Far Have We Come? Why Does It Matter?" will take place at […]
The potential for more 20mph limits in London in order to reduce road casualties should be fully explored through a borough-led pilot programme, according to a new report published the same week as the Government announced proposals to reduce speed limits on residential roads. The report by the London Assembly Transport Committee – ‘Braking point: […]
Jean Lambert MEP is supporting World Day for Animals in Laboratories on 24 April 2009, and will be attending the rally in central London on Saturday 25 April. She said: "I’m pleased to be supporting the World Day for Animals in Laboratories. Animal testing is an inhumane and outdated process, and scientists have demonstrated that […]
ean Lambert, London’s Green Party MEP, will join local Greens for a walkabout in Kingston next weekend on Saturday 2nd May. Jean will be meeting residents and discussing the key issues for the borough. Education is one area of concern. Kingston’s schools are hugely oversubscribed, and in March the council admitted that it faced a […]
Defra announced today that it was submitting its application for a further delay on crucial EU air quality targets — targets that the UK was meant to meet by 2005 (1). EU air quality targets are negotiated in the EU Parliament to reduce the pollutant particles found in London’s air. These particles have been linked […]
21 April 2009 by sianberry
Dr. Shahrar Ali, Brent Green Party’s spokesman for the environment, says the use of the chemical Glyphosate to kill weeds could put the safety of London residents at risk. Shahrar said: “There are still investigations in the European Union whether or not it could be allowed because there are cases where it could be causing harm to human health. […]
A motion has been tabled for the agenda of the next public meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority on the 30th May, 10am at City Hall. The motion recognizes that policing the G20 demonstration on the 1st April was: "difficult, but believes that the strategy and tactics adopted by the Metropolitan Police were fundamentally wrong." […]
The London mayor has so far failed to come up with the money to deliver on his promise of three new rape crisis centres in London. Only £233,000 a year was included in this year’s budget towards the centres. Jenny Jones was only one of two Assembly members who supported an amendment to the budget […]
As Boris Johnson approaches his first anniversary as London Mayor on 2nd May, Green Assembly Member, Darren Johnson AM, reflects on the Mayor’s first year in office. Darren said, “Although there have been one or two bright spots such as scrapping Ken Livingstone’s six-lane road bridge and planting more trees, Boris Johnson’s overall performance has been deeply depressing. We have […]
20 April 2009 by sianberry
Competition between mobile phone companies is wasting almost 300 GWh a year due to duplication of telephone network equipment, says a new report from the Green Party. According to the report, published Monday 20 April, the amount of energy currently wasted by the mobile phone networks would be enough to: * Run almost a third […]
17 April 2009 by sianberry
Darren Johnson, London Assembly Member, and Green Party spokesperson on trade and industry, says the "scrappage" policy likely to feature in this month’s Budget is "fundamentally flawed." Darren Johnson said: "This was tried in Germany. It increased sales of new cars by 40% but it probably had little real positive impact. Consumers simply shifted their […]