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24th May 2024 / 24th May 2024 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party is proud to announce that it is standing candidates in both Islington constituencies, such that all Islington voters have the opportunity to vote Green in the upcoming election. Carne Ross is the Green Party spokesperson for global solidarity, and is standing for Islington South and Finsbury. He said: “It’s time to end […]
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7th May 2024 / 7th May 2024 by Islington Green Party
Huge congratulations to Alex Nettle, who increased our vote share in the Hillrise by-election by 5% compared to 2022 (19.4%)! The final results were: Voter turnout: 47.3%. Full details are on on the Islington Council website. If you’re interested in standing as a councillor in future, come and talk to one of us at a […]
24th April 2024 / 24th April 2024 by Islington Green Party
A council by-election has been declared for Hillrise ward on the 2nd May. We’re delighted to announce that Alex Nettle will be standing in this by-election, where you’ll also have the chance to vote for Zoe Garbett for London Mayor and Antoinette Fernandez for the North East Constituency London Assembly candidate. Find out more about Alex […]
29th March 2024 / 2nd April 2024 by Islington Green Party
I’ve recently retired as a Domestic Energy Assessor, after more than fifteen years producing energy performance certificates (EPCs) for homeowners and landlords in Islington. A big change in that time is that, rather than just seeing them as a legal box to be ticked when renting or selling a home, people are now actually interested […]
Letters
1st March 2024 / 2nd April 2024 by Islington Green Party
Islington Tribune, March 2 2024 Hundreds of thousands of UK households are affected unfairly by the ‘Two Child’ benefits cap, which restricts universal credit and child tax credit to a family’s first two children and provides less or nothing for any others. It is one of our country’s biggest causes of child poverty, which has […]
27th February 2024 by Islington Green Party
Thanks to the Tribune for reporting how Islington’s opposition councillors have ‘called in’ the council’s decision to merge Montem and Duncombe schools, but it’s disappointing that Executive Member Cllr Ngongo has chosen to attack this call on party-political grounds in your letters page (‘For first-class education’). Admittedly the government’s decision to make Poole Park an […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
1st December 2023 / 11th December 2023 by Islington Green Party
Lorna Jane Russell successfully defended the Green seat in Highgate in the by-election on 30 November by winning 59% of the vote. This was a significant improvement on the 51% won by the previous Green councillor, Sian Berry, in the 2022 local elections. The by-election results were as follows: Candidate Party Number of votes Lorna […]
29th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
On Saturday 18 November, Councillor Benali Hamdache spoke to a crowd of hundreds at the Highbury and Islington rally for Peace and Justice. Here’s the transcript of his words – head over to Facebook for the video: “Oxfam. Save the Children. Médecins Sans Frontières. Action Aid. Amnesty International. War Child. All over the world humanitarian […]
15th November 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
Storm Ciaran was already the third ‘named storm’ of this autumn and October has been the wettest ever recorded in some parts of the country. So-called ‘one in a hundred year’ weather events are happening more like every two or three years, now. And impacts are being felt across all sectors of the UK, with […]
It’s disappointing, to say the least, that Islington has had to be fined by the Housing Ombudsman for delayed repairs to its own housing stock (‘Council fined for housing complaints’, 27/10/23). Council budgets have of course been badly depleted by years of government austerity policies but every delayed repair is yet another household living in […]
28th October 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
Last week, I and my wife, both in our eighties and both white skinned, joined thousands upon thousands of others to walk, in the drizzle, through central London in support of peace in the Middle East. What we encountered was, yes, some very angry people. But also acts of such kindness, love and concern from […]
10th October 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
From the eighteenth-century campaigns against slavery, when the sugar boycott against buying goods produced by enslaved peoples attracted 300,000 supporters, to their role in bringing to an end apartheid and segregation, boycotts have been shown to work. They are a vital democratic tool to address global injustices, which take power back to the people from […]
4th October 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
As my seventieth birthday approaches, it occurs to me I’ll never know, personally, if humanity manages to overcome the Climate Emergency challenge. With the best will in the world, it will still take years to slow and turn the ship of our carbon economy, then decades more to be sure we’ve avoided the catastrophes it […]
18th September 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
John Wilson asks if the Green Party has said nothing about ULEZ or has taken a stand which just hasn’t been widely reported (‘Will the Greens come to Khan’s rescue on ULEZ?’). I can confirm that we have been pushing Mayors for London-wide clean air zones for more than a decade now and have backed ULEZ on the Assembly […]
28th August 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
Transport for London has announced that its roadworks along Holloway Road will shortly move into Phase 2, around the Drayton Park and Liverpool Road junctions. Local residents have been campaigning for safer crossings at Drayton Park and Palmer Place for literally decades, so were delighted in 2019 when TfL announced it would be putting improvements […]
16th August 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
Every time I turn the TV on I seem to find either worldwide floods, wildfires and other extreme weather events or programmes enjoying the globe-trotting lifestyle of millionaires in Dubai and luxury hotels in the Maldives. Published research shows that from 1990 to 2015 the world’s wealthiest 1% were responsible for more than twice as […]
28th June 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
As councillors for Highbury ward, we’re delighted that the new design we’ve been pushing for, for the new café and facilities on the Fields, has been broadly well received by your readers (‘Look again at the new café design detail’ and others). We truly believe it will be a gamechanger for the Fields and will […]
21st June 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
Congratulations to Cllr Champion on reaching the milestone of Islington’s 500th on-street bike hanger (‘Five hundred hangars…’), but the Council’s promise to install a hundred more a year is too slow. There are still 2,500 people on the bike hangar waiting list, apparently, here in Islington, and this demand for secure on-street cycle parking will surely […]
12th June 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
While her constituency may be down in Brighton, many Islingtonians are sorry to hear that Caroline Lucas has announced her intention to step down as an MP at the next General Election. Since 2010 she has punched far above her weight as the Green Party’s only elected representative at Westminster, securing significant policy changes, shaping […]