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27th January 2014 by Islington Green Party
Islington Council’s Executive meeting on 14 January decided unanimously that Safer Neighbourhood Police meetings should be amalgamated with Ward Partnership meetings. The latter were established on the abolition of Area Committees after the 2010 election by the then new Labour Council. This raises two questions: How will this arrangement work in wards such as Highbury East […]
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17th January 2014 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party has condemned the Post Office’s plans for the massive development of the Mount Pleasant site, which straddles the Islington and Camden council boundaries. Local activist Michael Coffey has called on Islington Council and the Mayor’s office to reject the proposals, which would see a forest of skyscrapers in a gated, private, fortress […]
9th January 2014 by Islington Green Party
The leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett, today said it was “a day to mourn” as she joined local people to mark the last day of Clerkenwell fire station, one of ten closed down today by London Mayor Boris Johnson. Natalie said: “As we stand here today outside Europe’s oldest first station, we see […]
12th December 2013 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party can sympathise with Councillor Watts’ frustration at the Minister of Justice’s complacent response to his criticism of Atos, but it is hard to forget that it was the Labour government in 1998 that gave Atos a seven year contract to harass disabled persons of working age, and renewed the contract for a […]
22nd November 2013 by Islington Green Party
It is clear from the letters sent to last week’s Islington Tribune that local people in Islington are not only very concerned to hear that deaths due to air pollution are increasing, but can see for themselves that the Council is fundamentally wrong in saying nothing more can be done in the Borough. Caroline Allen, […]
21st November 2013 by Islington Green Party
Islington Greens last week called for Arsenal Football Club to pay all of its staff the minimum London Living Wage, currently set at £8.80 an hour, after it came to light that the football club were not paying their lowest paid workers the London Living Wage. Islington Green member Charlie Kiss called for Arsenal to […]
10th November 2013 by Islington Green Party
A new and depressing landmark has been reached in the madness that is Islington’s housing market. Last year, local Green campaigner Caroline Allen wrote in the Islington Tribune (27th July 2012) about how so called ‘affordable’ homes that cost £500,000 were nothing more than a con; designed to allow developers to continue to profit from […]
4th November 2013 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party member Alex Rendall took part in the united university workers strike on 31st October. Members of the Unison, UCU and Unite trade unions walked out for a day after receiving a below inflation pay offer for the fifth year in a row. Alex said: “After taking inflation into account, since 2008 our […]
31st October 2013 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party is delighted to see that Richard Watts, the new council leader, recognises the harmful effects of air pollution on residents’ health, yet worried by his claim at the recent air pollution meeting that “Islington cannot go any further on its own”. He was certainly right to say that the Mayor of London […]
16th October 2013 by Islington Green Party
Teachers in London and around the country will go on strike this Thursday (17 October) in protest at repeated attacks on their profession and working conditions by Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove. Highbury Green Party campaigner and NUT member Ernestas Jegorovas said he and his colleagues were left with “no option” but […]
