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 […]
Category: Letters
Letters sent by Islington Green Party members to the local papers
Letters to the Papers: Road safety progress shows power of community campaigns
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 […]
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Letters to the Papers: TV companies are not rising to the demands of our climate emergency
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 […]
Letters to the Papers: New Highbury Fields café progressing with input from the community
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 […]
Letters to the Papers: On-street bike hangars rolling out too slowly, and inequitably
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 […]
Letters to the Papers: Caroline Lucas will be a hard act to follow, but expect more Green MPs soon
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 […]
Letters to the Papers: Islington’s Hardship Fund still lying unclaimed
Following my letter, last month, Islington Council still hasn’t managed to distribute all of its Hardship Fund, so has extended the application deadline again, till the end of June this time. This entirely worthwhile initiative, to help low-income households who need support with paying their rent, still has grants available, but, so far, only 50% […]
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Letters to the Papers: Sobell Ice Rink consultation needs your voice
The Sobell Centre is a wonderful resource for our borough, which, over the years, the community has had to fight hard to keep open. Now we may have to fight, again, to make sure the facilities offered there are actually what we want. The ice-rink has been closed there since the flood from Thames Water’s […]
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Letters to the Papers: Hardship Fund deadline extended
Cllr Diarmaid Ward rightly recognises how people are suffering during the current cost-of-living crisis, so I welcome that he has extended the deadline to the end of May for low income, working households to apply for £250 one-off grants, from the Council’s Hardship Fund (‘Help available at this time of crisis’). The scheme’s direct payments […]
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Letters to the Papers: NHS Strikes
No-one in the NHS wants to go on strike and nurses and doctors are well aware of the impact on patients of ongoing strike action. The facts are that wages for nurses have fallen by 13%, in real terms, since 2009, compared with a 2.5% drop for the average UK worker, while junior doctors’ incomes […]
