Caroline Allen, vet and Green Party candidate for Islington met Brian May, Queen guitarist and founder of the animal rights group Save Me last week, as she and Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones launched the London Green Party’s animal manifesto on Monday in Battersea Park. Jenny Jones said: “I want to make sure this great city leads […]
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Islington Green Party responded to the inaugural journey of the Major’s new bus through Islington by slamming the fact that the money spent on this vanity project is delaying the wider fight against life threatening levels of air pollution on our streets. While TfL claim the new the bus has some good green credentials, […]
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Council meeting attendees reacted with horror as Cllr Smith admitted he intended to take no action over levels of air pollution in the Borough exceeding EU safe limits by up to 75%. In fact Cllr Smith went further saying that we just had to put up with dangerously high levels of air pollution as an […]
At the national Green Party conference in Liverpool last week, Camden Green Party chair Natalie Bennett moved an addition to Green Party policy that sees the Party backing the campaign for the introduction of "proportional liability" (also known as "stricter liability") for road users. The campaign is supported by Road Peace, the Environmental Law Foundation, the London Cycling Campaign and many others. […]
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Caroline Allen joins protesters at Hackney Town Hall Caroline Allen, the Green Party GLA candidate for North East London, is calling for Islington’s residents to sign up to a new campaign to help tackle the serious issue of fuel poverty. The ‘Winter Warm Up’ campaign, which last month saw Caroline and supporters protesting on […]
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Communities Councils and Carbon – What we can do if Governments Won’t. A public meeting organised by Islington Green Party – all welcome! Please feel free to a spread the word to anyone you think might be interested. Monday 13th February at 8.15pm in the basement room at the Regent Pub, 201Liverpool Rd, N11LX […]
A new school, 576 bobbies or 105 hybrid buses: Boris’ opposition to Robin Hood tax is costing Islington dearly, says Green candidate Caroline Allen Boris Johnson’s opposition to a ‘Robin Hood Tax’ is depriving local people in Islington of money that could pay for hundreds of new police officers, revitalise local transport, build new […]
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Local residents wishing to "play a role in influencing decisions and services in their areas" are invited by the Council to do so through attendance at regular Ward Partnership meetings with elected councillors in each of Islington’s sixteen wards. While seven Ward Partnerships are meeting regularly, one appears never to have met, nine wards have no future […]
Green Party Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones, joined leafleters at Highbury and Islington tube station on Tuesday and pledged that a Green City Hall would support small businesses by ensuring that any part of the Greater London Authority group—including Transport for London—would only deal with banks that could demonstrate they were lending to London’s small businesses. […]
