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12th July 2012 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party has called for Islington’s Labour Council to stop investing in tobacco firms after an FoI request by an NHS nurse revealed that it had put £13 million into tobacco companies as part of its £750m pension pot. Emma Dixon of Islington Greens said: “Smoking is estimated to cost the NHS £5.2 billion every year. […]
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5th July 2012 by Islington Green Party
Following the successful campaign to save the Whittington Hospital A&E from Labour Government cuts in 2010, our local hospital is once again under threat. The so-called ‘austerity’ agenda of the Con-Dem government means that the Whittington Hospital faces cuts calculated by the Defend the Whittington Hospital Coalition (DWHC) at a total of £13 million up […]
22nd June 2012 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party supports the petition to extend cycle hire scheme to the whole of Islington. We would particularly like to see docking stations in residential areas and on estates to make the scheme useful and accessible to a broad range of residents. We recognise that the hire scheme is not perfect, but its extension will benefit a wider […]
Green Party Leader Caroline Lucas MP and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds gave their support this week to Islington Green Party’s campaign against deforestation by Network Rail, which has denuded an area at Ashburton Triangle, Highbury and which threatens an area the size of the Forest of Dean nationally. Dr Lucas MP […]
18th June 2012 by Islington Green Party
The council’s intention to build new homes on existing estates is both sensible and necessary but from recent examples its approach on the ground seems in many cases arbitrary and unhelpfully rigid. Islingtonians recognise that we have a crying need for more affordable family housing and one of the biggest obstacles to this in a […]
14th June 2012 by Islington Green Party
Earlier this week, Islington Green Party received reports from residents at Ashburton Triangle that over the weekend Network Rail had destroyed vast swathes of trees and greenery adjoining the railway line there during bird nesting season. We are challenging Network Rail’s shocking actions by all means available to us, including by: -Reporting the matter to […]
9th May 2012 by Islington Green Party
Greens become third party in Mayoral and Assembly elections in Islington, Hackney and Waltham Forest and register more Green votes than anywhere else in London. • Green Party outpolls Liberal Democrats on party list in North East constituency by over 14,000 votes • Greens outpoll Liberal Democrats for first time in first past the post […]
8th May 2012 by Islington Green Party
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16th April 2012 by Islington Green Party
Green Party Leader praises Jones’ vision for a more equal, healthy and affordable London Caroline Lucas, the UK’s first Green MP and party leader will on Monday visit Islington to show her support for Jenny Jones’ Mayoral election campaign. Lucas, named Westminster’s most influential MP in her first year in the Commons, Jones, Assembly Member […]
11th April 2012 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party called today for enforcement of 20mph speed limits in Drayton Park where vehicles have been recorded traveling at twice the legal limit. One year after the 20mph limits were introduced to all residential roads in Islington, Green Party Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones joined London Assembly candidate Caroline Russell with a radar speed […]
