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11th February 2014 by Islington Green Party
Caroline Allen, Islington-based Green Party candidate for the European elections in May, wrote a column last week for leading LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) news website PinkNews.co.uk, on how the government has failed those fleeing homophobic and transphobic persecution. In the piece, she writes how it is “testament to our city that London […]
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10th February 2014 by Islington Green Party
After sustained pressure from campaigners and overwhelming evidence of dire health effects from air pollution, London’s Mayor has finally seen the light and is proposing introduction of an Ultra-Low Emission Zone for the existing congestion zone in 2020. This would already include parts of Islington, and our proposal is simply asking Boris to extend the […]
Teachers are on strike this week at the STEM 6 Academy, a newly opened free school on City Road, for students aged 16 -18 wanting to specialise in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Teachers were individually coerced into signing harsh contracts before Christmas and now wish to obtain union recognition in order to re-negotiate these […]
7th February 2014 by Islington Green Party
London Mayor Boris Johnson is abandoning his pre-election pledge and will be closing every Tube ticket office by 2015, as well as cutting 953 station jobs, removing supervisors from many stations, and cutting frontline staff while creating more managers. Islington Green Party council candidate Charlie Kiss asked: “When did Londoners get the opportunity to give […]
6th February 2014 by Islington Green Party
A letter to Mayor Johnson asking for Islington to be included in the Mayor’s proposed Ultra Low Emission Zone to clean up our air by 2020 was handed to the Environment Committee of the London Assembly ahead of their meeting this morning. The committee is due to discuss the Mayor’s proposed Ultra Low Emission […]
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 […]
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 […]
3rd October 2013 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party has been baffled to see the Council crowing about its great achievement of adding 100 parking spaces in the last six months. We replied to the council, pointing out that this is not in keeping with its recent claims to finally be taking the issue of air pollution seriously. Needless to say, […]
1st October 2013 by Islington Green Party
Council executive member for sustainability Rakhia Ismail claimed last month that the council is making it as easy as possible for residents to recycle their waste – but the evidence shows they could be doing much more. On estates where Islington Green Party members live, in Canonbury, Clerkenwell, and elsewhere, the few recycling bins available […]
25th September 2013 by Islington Green Party
The recent unpleasant experience of one resident finding a camera recording whilst pointing into her bedroom has highlighted the problems of expensive and ineffective CCTV. The record of CCTV cameras preventing or deterring crime is extremely poor. Scotland Yard has reported that only one crime in 1000 is actually solved by CCTV, and contrary to […]
21st September 2013 by Islington Green Party
Private tenants in Islington need a salary of £70,000 per year for a 2-bed flat to be affordable, according to housing charity Shelter – and local Green Party campaigner and European Election candidate for London, Caroline Allen, says it is time for radical action from the government. In a piece published in the Islington Tribune, […]
16th September 2013 by Islington Green Party
Private tenants in Islington need a salary of £70,000 per year for a 2-bed flat to be affordable, according to housing charity Shelter – and local Green Party campaigner and European Election candidate for London, Caroline Allen, says it is time for radical action from the government. In a piece published in the Islington Tribune […]
30th August 2013 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party is glad, but also saddened, to hear that MP Jeremy Corbyn intends to bring a Private Member’s Bill to Parliament to try to tackle the crisis in the private rental sector. We agree that there’s an urgent need to address the worsening situation for people renting privately, but it’s shameful that when […]
28th August 2013 by Islington Green Party
Highbury Greens Charlie Kiss, Ernestas Jegorovas and Caroline Russell went to Whitehall tonight to join the emergency demonstration against the rush to launch a missile strike on Syria. The Green party is clear and unambiguous on this issue. We believe that it is not our role to get involved in the civil war in Syria […]
10th June 2013 by Islington Green Party
London Green Party Welcomes Mayor’s “U-turn” on 20mphThe London Green Party has welcomed the news announced last Friday that almost all residential roads and high streets in London will have 20 mph speed limits by 2020. The party is calling on Mayor Johnson to take the proposals forward as speedily and comprehensively as possible.The announcement […]
Islington Greens marched today in support of the Fire Brigade Union campaign to save Clerkenwell Fire Station from closure under plans put forward by Conservative Mayor of London Boris Johnson. They were joined by Green London Assembly Member Darren Johnson, who spoke at a rally at the end of the march to call for cross-party unity […]