Caroline Lucas, leader of The Green Party, said: We reject and condemn the horrendous violence, arson and looting that we have seen on the streets of Britain. But we must seek to understand why this happened to prevent it being repeated. If we stop at denunciations and crackdowns, nothing will be learned about why sections [...]

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 [...]

Today the Green Party’s Election Broadcast was launched via their Only Green website. By visiting the site voters can not only look at our key policies but take a Policy Matchmaker test to see how close their views match ours. Why not visit the Policy Matchmaker page here. You could have more in common with the [...]

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 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 [...]

Barnet Greens are telling London Mayor Boris Johnson: “Hands off Tube ticket offices”. Three years ago campaigning by  the Green Party helped force Ken Livingstone to scrap plans to shut round 40 London Underground ticket offices, including several in Barnet borough. Now Barnet Greens are ready to wield their placards again to see off reported [...]

Barnet Greens are calling for a 20 mph default speed limit on residential and shopping streets across the borough, using as a “case study” the problems in East Finchley’s Church Lane. As well as cutting the number of accidents, a 20 mph limit would be “good for children, cyclists and the planet,” said Andrew Newby, [...]

Barnet Green Party is urging young people in the borough to shun the government’s new offer to sign them up to the national identity card scheme. The Home Office this month invited 16- to 24-year-olds in London to apply for identity cards at a cost of £30.  For any young person who does apply, up [...]

Barnet Green Party is calling on Barnet Council to sell its pension fund’s shares in BAe Systems after the weapons maker last Friday finally admitted misconduct in several export deals. BAe agreed to pay penalties totalling nearly 300 million pounds for the crimes, which related to the huge 43 billion pounds al-Yamamah sale of fighter [...]

Greens in East Finchley are urging the introduction of a 20 mph speed limit on East Finchley’s Church Lane and all other residential or shopping streets in Barnet borough. Barnet Council has fobbed off a call by East Finchley Village Residents Association for a 20 mph limit on Church Lane by saying some people will [...]