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1st October 2019 by Islington Green Party
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has admitted that the Metropolitan Police has been secretly sharing private data for facial recognition cameras with the company behind the King‛s Cross development – something the Met had initially denied. The revelation came after questions from Green candidate for London Mayor, Siân Berry, forced the truth to come out. The […]
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20th September 2019 by Islington Green Party
Siân Berry has been working hard to expose the huge cuts to youth services in London, raising the alarm about more than 100 lost youth centres and over 500 youth worker jobs since 2016. In last year’s City Hall budget, Green Assembly Members won a major victory by securing a new ‘Young Londoners Fund’ from […]
13th September 2019 by Islington Green Party
In May 2020, Londoners will go to the polls to elect the next Mayor and the Assembly Members who hold them to account. The Green Party is the third biggest party on the London Assembly, and a recent YouGov poll shows a huge swell of support for Siân Berry as the future London Mayor. Whilst […]
4th September 2019 by Islington Green Party
For the second time this year Conservative councillors have blocked much needed plans to make London’s roads safer. Kensington and Chelsea’s Conservative administration, with the support of the local Labour party, have vetoed a TfL proposal to provide a safe walking and cycling route from Shepherd’s Bush to Holland Park. This follows Conservative Westminster council […]
30th August 2019 by Islington Green Party
In a time when politics is so chaotic, London needs hope. Siân Berry is standing for Mayor with a promise to deliver the bold action needed to address the chronic problems Londoners face. Siân came third in the last election for Mayor, ahead of the Liberal Democrats. With your support she can deliver the radical […]
22nd August 2019 by Islington Green Party
June saw the two-year anniversary of the catastrophic Grenfell fire. People from across the city marched through London calling for justice for Grenfell to be delivered. However, on this anniversary it is an outrage that the lessons still haven’t been learned. The Fire Brigades Union have warned that we risk sleepwalking into another catastrophe, with […]
16th August 2019 by Islington Green Party
Heathrow Airport is consulting on expansion plans that will result in increased carbon emissions, more traffic, more air pollution and busier, noisier flight paths all over London. Caroline Russell argues that: “People living under these new flight paths will hear noisy planes overhead from the early hours of the morning to last thing at night. […]
7th August 2019 by Islington Green Party
The London Green party have been celebrating after retaining a Green MEP for London. The outgoing Jean Lambert, who is standing down as an MEP after 20 years, is to be replaced by fellow Green and Lambeth Councillor Scott Ainslie. The Green campaign championed remaining in the EU and addressing the climate emergency. This election […]
6th August 2019 by Islington Green Party
Green Assembly Member Caroline Russell and Assembly candidate Benali Hamdache have helped win a campaign to ban adverts on the underground from regimes that threaten LGBT+ lives. Adverts promoting Brunei were removed from the underground after the Sultan of Brunei threatened to make being gay punishable by death, causing Green Assembly Members and activists to […]
26th June 2019 by Islington Green Party
The Islington Green Party has welcomed the Council’s historic decision to declare a ‘climate emergency’. The announcement is expected at a council meeting on Thursday 27th June. Islington Greens have been pushing for this decision for many months now, working with other parties and groups like Fossil Free Islington to recognise the seriousness of the […]