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19 February 2021 / 19 February 2021 by London Green Party
Sian Berry, Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, has said she will improve trans rights and protect LGBT+ spaces in the capital if elected in May. Sian plans to remove barriers to healthcare, employment and housing for trans and non-binary Londoners if elected.She has pledged to make London the most “trans-inclusive city in the […]
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Caroline Russell calls on Mayor to work for all-party parliamentary commission on atonement and compensation for African enslavement In February, the London Assembly debated a motion to mark the United Nations International Decade for Peoples of African Descent 2015-2024, committing City Hall to eradicating racial injustice and anti-Black racism in the capital. Welcoming the motion, […]
18 February 2021 / 18 February 2021 by London Green Party
Londoners not benefitting from vital cash says Green Mayor Candidate Green Mayoral Candidate Sian Berry has made an urgent plea to the Transport Secretary to allow TfL to retain Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) raised in the capital to stabilise its finances, decimated by the pandemic. The Green Party joined other London Assembly political groups in […]
LGBT+ people face serious disadvantage in housing Green Party Co-leader, Sian Berry, will provide housing for disadvantaged LGBTQ+ people if elected Mayor of London, citing the community’s high levels of homelessness. Her strategy includes creating co-operative housing out of disused buildings in the capital, as well as ‘co-housing’ – where residents live in a self-contained […]
16 February 2021 / 16 February 2021 by London Green Party
Sian Berry will set a Green London Living Wage at £14 an hour for workers and apprentices of all ages if elected as the Mayor of London. The Government’s Living Wage is £8.72 while the Living Wage Foundation calculates that a London Living Wage ought to be set at £10.85. In 2022-23, these hourly rates are projected to be set at £9.02 and £11.10 […]
13 February 2021 / 13 February 2021 by London Green Party
Overtaking the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party is now on 8 per cent. The polling finds the Tories have barely changed their position, having 42% of support. Labour has lost some support, down three points on 38%. The Lib Dems are on 7%. Commenting on the polling, the Co-Leader of the Green Party Jonathan Bartley said: […]
8 February 2021 / 8 February 2021 by London Green Party
Sian Berry, the Green candidate for Mayor, has pledged to change the failure of policies around drug use. One of Sian Berry’s mayoral pledges is to deprioritise the policing of cannabis in London, including an immediate stop to using just the smell of cannabis to justify stop and search. The policy aims to direct drug […]
3 February 2021 / 3 February 2021 by London Green Party
Local campaigners and Green Party members are delighted after Southwark Council’s plan to cut down two healthy oak trees, thought to be over 100 years old, was rejected. The trees are in Sydenham Hill Wood in Dulwich. Southwark Council announced in January 2019 that the trees should be felled so that a bridge could be […]
28 January 2021 / 28 January 2021 by London Green Party
London has lost thousands of social homes in the last decade, according to Sian Berry, Green London Assembly member and Mayoral candidate. Since 2003, 13,500 social homes were lost, as revealed in Sian’s new report. Sian’s report shows how the Mayor has made steps to address the housing crisis with his London Plan, which contains […]
22 January 2021 / 22 January 2021 by London Green Party
Despite the number of bus journeys being low due to travel restrictions, new data has revealed a disturbing rise in hate crimes on London buses, jumping from 43 in May to 115 in June. The worrying figures were revealed following a question from Green Party Assembly Member Sian Berry at a meeting of the London Assembly. In […]
21 January 2021 / 31 January 2021 by London Green Party
The Green Party is urging the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to reinstate an important cycle lane – that was removed after just a few weeks. The Kensington High Street (KHS) cycle lane was a government initiative to enhance active travel during the covid pandemic.The trial was supposed to last 12 months and cost £300,000 – and […]
20 January 2021 / 20 January 2021 by London Green Party
Frontline workers such as police, fire brigade and TfL staff should be prioritised for COVID-19 vaccination once the vulnerable are immunised, according to a Green London Assembly member, Caroline Russell. “These key workers need to be protected from coronavirus rapidly,” said Caroline. “Prioritising vaccination for the people keeping the city running is a sensible step […]
19 January 2021 / 20 January 2021 by London Green Party
Sian Berry is a private renter and she understands the fears of those living in the country’s most expensive city. Many renters have lost their jobs in the pandemic and one in eight are behind on their rent. That’s why Sian is calling for the Government and Mayor to protect them. Sian says: “We need […]
18 January 2021 / 20 January 2021 by London Green Party
We need to fix Test and Trace The Government has failed in a crucial job to stop the spread of coronavirus: creating a ‘test and trace’ system that quickly tests people for the virus and traces people who might have been exposed. They handed out contracts to private companies that have made huge profits while […]
17 January 2021 / 27 January 2021 by London Green Party
Greens would stop this polluting waste of money Green Assembly Member Caroline Russell has revealed that Sadiq Khan’s Silvertown Road Tunnel in East London will cost Londoners £2 billion, nearly THREE TIMES the original price. The current Mayor has committed Londoners to paying £65 million a year for 25 years under a contract signed last […]
16 January 2021 / 20 January 2021 by London Green Party
VITAL SERVICES NEED ACTION NOT PARTY GAMES Transport for London (TfL) is in crisis. Government made it dependent on fares income by removing all its funding Now coronavirus means fewer tube and bus trips – slashing revenue from ticket sales. It benefits the whole nation to keep London moving – but instead the Conservatives are […]
15 January 2021 / 21 March 2023 by London Green Party
Independent shops and businessesare the lifeblood of London. But high rents and rates, made worse by the pandemic, are forcing thousands out of business. Green Assembly Member Caroline Russell has been working with small businesses to establish a ‘working rent.’ A fair settlement to ensure landlords aren’t bankrupting our businesses. Sian says: “Caroline’s work is […]
14 January 2021 / 20 January 2021 by London Green Party
Public spaces are the beating heart of London – where Londoners are free to play, shop, exercise, perform, protest, socialise and live. But there has been an increasing privatisation of our public spaces, which comes with new rules over which nobody was consulted. Since 2016, Green candidate for Mayor, Sian Berry, has been campaigning to […]
13 January 2021 / 13 January 2021 by London Green Party
The London Assembly unanimously supported Sian Berry’s call for more action on the crisis of youth homelessness in London. The number of rough sleepers, in the Capital, among 18-25 year olds has rapidly increased by 47% in 2020 compared to the previous year. Coronavirus has compounded homelessness in the Capital for young people with restrictions forcing […]
4 December 2020 / 10 December 2020 by London Green Party
Airport expansion and hitting environmental targets to slow down global warming are incompatible. But the current Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is continuing to support the expansion of Gatwick airport. While Heathrow expansion is being challenged in the courts, Sian Berry, the Green candidate for Mayor, has criticised the current administration for only paying “lip […]
19 November 2020 / 19 November 2020 by London Green Party
Covid-19 has exposed so many of the fault lines in our society – from the treatment of older people to an ever-growing mental health crisis. But the Green Party has a number of exciting initiatives that would help Londoners as part of a post-Covid world. These include… Building smarter homes More inclusive neighbourhoods And introducing […]
5 November 2020 / 11 November 2020 by London Green Party
Londoners won’t be benefitting from a universal basic income any time soon as a call for a pilot in the city in a motion brought by Sian Berry AM and Caroline Pidgeon AM was kicked into the long grass by the other parties on the Assembly. [1] Sian Berry last week joined 520 other elected […]
1 November 2020 / 11 November 2020 by London Green Party
The rising support for Green parties across Europe has led to many talking about a Green “tsunami” and a “quiet revolution” – that will shake up international politics. Greens had unprecedented success in the EU elections last May, with almost 10% of seats going to Green or allied parties. More recently, in France’s municipal elections […]
23 October 2020 / 11 November 2020 by London Green Party
Party reaffirms position on ‘gold-plating’ London’s Green Belt to protect land from housing development & untap it’s full potential At the recent Autumn Conference, Green Party Members came together to pass a new Food and Agricultural policy which ensures the sustainable use of Green Belt land in providing a wide range of environmental benefits including […]