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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. […]