‘Council’ Archive

Join Barnet Green Party’s Pinkham Way day of action

Join Barnet Green Party’s day of action on Saturday when we will be campaigning in Coppetts Ward to highlight the threat posed by the North London Waste Authority’s plans for a mammoth rubbish squashing plant at Pinkham Way in Friern Barnet. In you can help, come to our stall outside the Co-op in Woodhouse Road, [...]

Barnet Greens launch London election campaign with fair pay call

Photo call – do join us! What: London Assembly candidate launch Who: Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones, London Assembly candidate for Barnet and Camden A M Poppy When: 11am, 5 December 2011 Where: Hendon Town Hall,NW4 4BG The Green Party’s AM Poppy will on Monday launch her campaign to become London Assembly member for Barnet and [...]

Obscene pay letter

Poppy had this letter published in the Barnet Times this week (p20): Barnet shares with Wandsworth the dubious distinction of having the greatest number of council employees earning over £150,000 pa (nine of them) according to figures analysed this week by the Green Party. The chief executive’s pay is 12 times more than the London [...]

Greens target victory in Highgate ward by-election

If can help in the campaign contact Alexis at alexis.rowell@greenparty.org.uk The Green Party has chosen former Liberal Democrat councillor and Camden Eco Champion, Alexis Rowell, as their candidate for the Highgate by-election on Thursday 15th September. The Green Party’s Maya de Souza topped the poll in Highgate ward in last year’s council elections and the [...]

Join Barnet Greens on anti-cuts march on Saturday

A Barnet Green Party delegation will of course be taking part in the national anti-cuts march on Saturday March 26th.Let’s help make it the biggest march in London since the protests against the invasion of Iraq. You are welcome to come with Barnet Greens. Some Barnet Green Party members will meet up at Finchley Central [...]

Bring in congestion charge at Brent Cross and Tally Ho

Barnet Green Party are calling for the introduction of congestion charges in busy and polluted areas such as Brent Cross and Tally Ho Corner. This is just one of the many ideas the party is putting forward to show how Barnet Council could balance its budget without resorting to welfare cuts or closing libraries. Here [...]

Barnet’s ‘Future Shape’ must be sustainable

Expert auditors Grant Thornton have exposed Barnet Council’s Future Shape document as an empty shell, so the borough’s Conservative leaders have given themselves until December to come up with ideas to turn the strategy, better known as ‘EasyCouncil’, into a serious policy rather than a collection of political soundbites. Here’s Barnet GreenParty’s proposal: Abandon the [...]

Barnet Greens say “scrap Future Shape”

Barnet Green Party calls on Barnet Council’s Conservative administration to cancel its notorious Future Shape strategy after auditors Grant Thornton criticised the policy as lacking direction. The damning report to the council’s audit committee by a team of expert professionals highlights that council leader Lynne Hillan and her cronies don’t have the faintest idea how [...]

Greens take extra council seat in Norwich

The Green Party has won an extra seat on Norwich City Council, maintaining the progress it has made at every local election since 2002. Norwich now has 14 Green councillors, the party’s highest number ever on any UK council. Yesterday’s election gain came in Thorpe Hamlet ward, at the expense of the Lib-Dems. The Greens [...]

Vote Green in Barnet on May 6

Barnet Green Party urges local people to follow your conscience and vote Green both in Thursday’s general election and in the Barnet Council election on the same day, May 6th. “We know Green policies are popular. Our national policies are in first place in the giant survey of more than 250,000 people on vote for [...]