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7 April 2021 / 7 April 2021 by London Green Party
More than 1,200 people were injured and 68 people were killed while walking on or alongside London’s roads in 2019, according to figures revealed by a leading Green politician. Caroline Russell, a member of the London Assembly, also showed that 261 junctions in London contain no pedestrian crossing signals. The Assembly unanimously supported Caroline’s motion […]
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5 April 2021 / 5 April 2021 by London Green Party
Sian Berry wants teenagers on the London Youth Assembly granted new powers to hold the Mayor to account. She’s pledged them more resources to investigate issues, write reports, the power to question the Mayor at several annual Youth Assembly Question Time events and submit official written questions all year round. “Young people have shown more […]
3 April 2021 / 3 April 2021 by London Green Party
We are spending billions on building new roads, but we are well short on funding for cycling, according to Jenny Jones, House of Lords Green Party peer. Jones states: ‘The evidence available shows that building more roads encourages greater vehicle use and a side effect of that is both pollution [what Jones refers to as […]
31 March 2021 / 31 March 2021 by London Green Party
Eurostar has asked the UK government for a bail out having suffered huge losses during the Covid 19 pandemic. Annual revenues fell from £1billion in 2019 to around £180milllion in 2020 and services slashed from 50 a day to 2. But Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said last month that as the company is majority-owned by the French, and the UK sold their stake in 2015, it is ‘not our company […]
28 March 2021 / 28 March 2021 by London Green Party
Sian Berry has condemned the Metropolitan police mismanagement of the recent Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard. The Green Party co-leader said: “I can’t think of a more shameful way for an organisation to have handled this whole situation. “There was no chance of this being a violent event if it had been left in […]
26 March 2021 / 26 March 2021 by London Green Party
Even though it has been a long time coming, Sian Berry, London Assembly member and Green party candidate for Mayor, welcomed the news that hate crimes motivated by misogyny, will be recorded by the police from autumn 2021. Sian had called on the Mayor of London to make this a priority for the Met since […]
24 March 2021 / 24 March 2021 by London Green Party
The government’s airport expansion plans for Heathrow and Gatwick severely undermine efforts to cut air pollution and carbon emissions, and are completely at odds with the UK’s role as chair of this year’s COP, according to Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley. Bartley reiterated: ‘It makes no sense to talk about climate ambition as a priority […]
22 March 2021 / 22 March 2021 by London Green Party
Lambeth Greens have set out an ‘alternative budget’ for the London borough, after a disappointing budget by the ruling Labour group. The Greens are proposing trialling universal basic income in Lambeth as well as piloting a four-day work week. The existing budget makes no mention of the climate emergency, and the Green group are severely […]
20 March 2021 / 20 March 2021 by London Green Party
The Green candidate for the London Mayoral race has has attacked the treatment of key workers by the government during the Covid crisis. Sian Berry said that health secretary Matt Hancock left workers “exposed” to coronavirus and attacked chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak for “ignoring nurses who need a pay rise”. Berry made the […]
Fines for many traffic violations have not increased in over a decade in London. Fines for illegally parking in a bus lane or a red route, or for breaking loading restrictions, are still at 2011 levels. ‘This is effectively a ten year “fines freeze” for thoughtless driving in London,’ according to Caroline Russell, Green London […]