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27th May 2017 by Islington Green Party
In Bristol in 2017, the Green Party has a chance to win a second MP, strengthening the voice for equality and environmentalism across the UK. Bristol is already leading the way in the fight against climate change – most recently with the Bristol Energy Cooperative, a publically-owned energy company focused on generating local energy for […]
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26th May 2017 by Islington Green Party
The Green Party opposes Brexit and we vehemently reject a hard Brexit. We support a transnational approach to the problems – economic, environmental and political – that we face. It is only through international cooperation that we are going to re-launch our economies still under a cloud from the global banking crisis, that we are […]
25th May 2017 by Islington Green Party
The gap between rich and poor is increasing, while inflation means that peoples’ wages today are lower than ten years ago. Unemployment has fallen since 2008, but 5.4 million people still earn less than the minimum living wage and 28.5% of people in a temporary job are still trying to get a full-time one – […]
24th May 2017 by Islington Green Party
Why do fossil fuel companies behave so badly? In Canada, Fort McMurray nearly burnt to the ground as the tar sands caught on fire. In America, the Dakota Access Pipeline was pushed through across the homes of native peoples, who came out in their tens of thousands to protest to the destruction of their lands, […]
22nd May 2017 by Islington Green Party
Not voting Labour, for many people, is achingly hard. There is an inbuilt loyalty to the party that won so many victories for workers and the vulnerable. It has been the vehicle of serious progress. The bastion of hope for the whole loosely defined coalition on the left side British politics since before WW2. In […]
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 […]
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’. […]
17th April 2017 by Islington Green Party
Just back from a meeting at Sotheby Mews Day Centre hearing from users of the services there about what they value most. Friendship kindness and care for each other came up time and time again with countless examples of small actions that seem almost insignificant on their own but together add up to a support […]
15th April 2017 by Islington Green Party
There are over 17,000 EU citizens living and working in Islington, a borough which voted overwhelmingly to remain in Europe. The Green Party rejects the extreme Brexit which is being pursued by the government, and is campaigning locally and nationally for a better vision of the future. We are calling for a parliamentary vote on […]
13th April 2017 by Islington Green Party
Highgate Jobcentre Plus is due to shut its doors following cuts across the country that threaten 1 in 10 Jobcentres nationally. This comes at a time when insecure and exploitative zero-hour contracts are at an all-time high, housing costs are continuing to rise and charities are warning of ongoing pressures on disabled people struggling to […]
11th April 2017 by Islington Green Party
What is your most valuable possession? If you are a homeowner you would probably say it was your house. Otherwise, it might be your car, your TV or even your smart phone. I would argue it is something else. It is one of the things you have a right to as a resident of the UK. […]
7th April 2017 by Islington Green Party
In 2004, Caroline Russell conducted a survey with Christine Mabey of Islington Living Streets and local activists from Highbury Fields Association and Highbury Community Association – of pedestrians crossing at the notorious five-way junction between Highbury Grove, Highbury Hill and Leigh Road. Their results were categorical – 92% thought the crossing was unsafe, over half […]
5th April 2017 by Islington Green Party
After deciding, without consultation or warning, to close Sotheby Mews Day Centre, destroying the community built up over many years in this vital community centre, Islington Council moved to justify their actions by proposing to build much-needed social housing on the site. Islington Green Party welcomes new social housing, but rejects the idea that this […]
3rd April 2017 by Islington Green Party
This is about people. Last Saturday again 100,000 people marched to Parliament. On the 60th anniversary of the European Union, people came together to celebrate 60 years of peace amongst neighbours.But while across Europe people came together in celebration, in London it was also a march of the disenfranchised. Not just the 31,000 EU citizens […]
31st March 2017 by Islington Green Party
Our next Green Party meeting will be held in Islington Town Hall on April 19th at 19.30, and will focus in on “What’s Next after Article 50”. We’ll be discussing the next steps campaigners can take post Article 50 being triggered. London Green Party Assembly Member and local Cllr Caroline Russell will speak of […]
30th March 2017 by Islington Green Party
On Islington Council’s website there is a section urging people to help deal with the budget cuts. Recycling features at the bottom: “It costs £80 per tonne to send rubbish to landfill, but only £15 per tonne to recycle it – and of course it’s better for the environment.” However, as the council dug deeper […]