‘Councillors’ Archive

Barnet Greens earn 20,000 votes but still denied seats

Barnet Green Party would like to thank everyone in the borough who voted Green in the national and local elections last week and we would particularly like to thank the dozens of people who helped out, some of whom contacted us out of the blue. The number of Green votes in the Barnet borough elections [...]

Meet and greet Green candidates next Saturday

Next Saturday is your final chance to put your questions to local Green Party candidates in a ‘Meet and Greet’ session in East Finchley. Some of Barnet Green Party’s candidates for parliament and for the Barnet Council election will be at our stall outside Budgens on East Finchley High Road from around 10 am to [...]

Election Campaign Launch

Today Barnet Green Party successfully launched its 2010 Council Election at Tally Ho Corner in North Finchley. Candidates from across the borough were  joined by Green Party MEP, Jean Lambert. For more information visit our Council Elections Page. Press coverage: MEP Jean Lambert backs Barnet Green Party’s campaign launch at Tally Ho today

Barnet Greens focus on jobs in national and local elections

Barnet Green Party is prioritising job creation in its pledges for both the national and local elections. Here are our pledges for the Barnet Council election on May. Jobs: We will press Barnet Council to do more to help prepare local 16-24 year old people for the world of work and to help them find [...]

Barnet election launch at Tally Ho on Saturday

Barnet Green Party will launch its 2010 Barnet Council election campaign at 11.00 am on Saturday 10th April at the pollution monitor at Tally Ho Corner in North Finchley. Green Party candidates from across the borough will be joined by Green Party MEP, Jean Lambert. Why not come along and meet us? For further details [...]

Meet your Greens – at East Finchley on Saturday

Barnet Green Party has selected East Finchley as its target ward for the borough council elections on May 6th and will officially launch its campaign in the ward this coming Saturday, February 13th. The launch will take place outside Budgen’s supermarket on the High Road. We invite all local people to come along at about [...]

Greens tell Boris: ‘don’t raise bus fares’

The Green Party’s Darren Johnson will be aiming to freeze bus fares when he seeks to amend Mayor Boris Johnson’s draft budget. The £75m that the Mayor is raising from the 12 percent bus fare increase would instead be raised mostly from motorists, with the reinstatement of the £25 emissions charge on gas guzzlers and [...]

Greens Say Brent Cross Decision is Bad for Britain

Barnet Planning Committee’s approval of the Brent Cross Cricklewood development is bad for the borough of Barnet, awful for surrounding areas and sets a terrible example for the whole of Britain, say Barnet Greens. Even supposing the developers fulfill their pledges of high standards for all aspects of their monstrous proposals, there are two overwhelming [...]

Hove Election Win Opens Way to Westminster Victory

Greens in Brighton and Hove are jubilant at winning the strategically important Goldsmid by-election in Hove, taking the seat from the Tories. The result sees the election of the first Green councillor, Alex Phillips, from Hove to Brighton and Hove City Council and deprives the Tories of their majority on the council. Caroline Lucas, national [...]