Letters
24th January 2024 by Islington Green Party
I congratulate you on your 8 page climate feature. It is encouraging that a paper such as ‘The Islington Tribune’ can devote such a large part of its content to the Climate Emergency. Your editorial invites readers to debate the issues and encourages them not to feel helpless and overwhelmed, and you make helpful suggestions […]
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During the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, 250 of the world’s richest people wrote an open letter to political leaders, calling for greater taxes on their own wealth. The signatories, including members of both the Rockefeller and Disney dynasties, recognised that increasing global inequality is putting economic, societal and ecological stability at risk for […]
12th January 2024 / 24th January 2024 by Islington Green Party
Published in the Islington Tribune, Jan 12 2024 For many years Islington Green Party have been campaigning to exempt Islington Council’s poorest residents from paying council tax. It used to be the case that people on the lowest incomes were given a 100 per cent discount from council tax, but the Conservative and Liberal Democrat […]
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5th January 2024 by Islington Green Party
Green Party member Rod Gonggrijp has called out the confusing nature of TfL’s experimental cycleway on Seven Sisters Road in the Islington Tribune this week: Rod Gonggrijp of Crayford Road in Tufnell Park, said the experimental path had confused cyclists who were unsure how to get into it as they approach the Holloway Road junction […]
2nd January 2024 by Islington Green Party
The NHS has dropped the bombshell that maternity services at either Royal Free Hospital or the Whittington are under threat of closure. Because of NHS cuts and lower birth rates there will be a consultation on closing one of the maternity wards. The Green Party is launching a petition to save the services. Local Green […]