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18th May 2017 by Islington Green Party
Young people are the future, and our future needs protecting. It’s never been harder to be a young person in the UK – struggling with student debt, unreliable job prospects and unaffordable housing. Under a government that is failing them, young people need a voice. The Green Party will be that voice. The Green Party […]
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16th May 2017 by Islington Green Party
In January of 2014 I started work on a novel, Fellside, set in a colossal women’s prison on the Yorkshire moors. An imaginary setting, but loosely inspired by the Conservative government’s plans (inherited from New Labour) to build a new generation of so-called “titan” prisons to house Britain’s rapidly increasing prison population. I would be […]
10th May 2017 by Islington Green Party
The Clean Air Act of 1952 was a response to the deaths of 12,000 people in the Great Smog. We have reached a new tipping point. In 2015 London’s air killed 9,500 people. Since then the situation has only gotten worse. In January many areas of London blew their maximum pollution targets for the entire […]
8th May 2017 by Islington Green Party
Today, Islington Green Party launched four key pledges to improve the air we breathe and tackle the rising levels of pollution across the borough. The pledges are the first set of policy announcements from Islington the Green Party in the run up to the General Election on 8th June. The Greens, Islington’s second party, have […]
7th May 2017 by Islington Green Party
The civilisation-threatening potential of Climate Change has been known for decades. However no election in this country has ever seen Climate Change presented as a top priority, and this year will be no different. As it has been at every opportunity spurned, not for lack of trying by the Green Party, this is a disaster. […]
5th May 2017 by Islington Green Party
There are only two parts of me that don’t relish elections. My left foot and my right foot. But we have come to an accommodation and despite being barely recovered from the abuse they received in 2015 they are ready and grateful to be employed this time round in Islington. Far fewer hills than Brighton […]
28th April 2017 by Islington Green Party
Cllr Caroline Russell is one of two Green Party representatives on the London Assembly and is a councillor for Highbury East within the Islington North constituency. She is National Transport Spokesperson for the Green Party. Caroline has lived in Islington since 1986, initially in Kings Cross and since 1992 in Highbury. She is married with […]
During last year’s EU referendum, Benali Hamdache worked for ‘Britain Stronger In Europe’, the official campaign group for the Remain side of the debate. Benali is hugely passionate about our relationship with Europe and continues to be actively involved in campaigning against the current plans to take the UK towards an extreme version of Brexit. […]
On April 27th, Islington Green Party launched its biggest and most ambitious General Election campaign yet as it announced its candidates for the two parliamentary seats in Islington. Local party members voted for London Assembly Member and Islington Councillor Caroline Russell to contest the seat of Islington North and for pro-EU campaigner Benali Hamdache to […]
18th April 2017 by Islington Green Party
From the Green Party’s website: The Green Party has responded to Theresa May’s announcement of an early General Election. Caroline Lucas MP has promised a ‘bold, positive vision for a different kind of Britain’ while co-leader Jonathan Bartley said that the Green Party would give people a ‘real alternative to the politics of the past’. […]
