Posts Tagged ‘Barnet Council’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Greens’ protest kite soars into the empty skies

A protest kite launched by Barnet Green Party was the only authorised craft in the skies above London on Sunday 18th, as Donald Lyven, the party’s candidate for Finchley and Golders Green, attempted to fly the kite to 140 metres, the height of the chimney at an incinerator planned as part of the Brent Cross [...]

Greens to fly kite to 140m height of BXC incinerator chimney

If you are ready for some light relief amid the election campaigning why not join us for kite flying on Sunday at Clitterhouse playing fields near Brent Cross? Anyone who would like to bring their own kites to fly alongside ours will be especially welcome. Next Sunday, April 18th, Donald Lyven, Green Party parliamentary candidate [...]

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 [...]

Greens say: “Max 20 – that’s plenty”

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, [...]

Green MEP backs coalition for sustainable Brent Cross development

London Member of the European Parliament, Jean Lambert, strengthened the campaign for a sustainable Brent Cross regeneration this week, when she announced her support for the Coalition for a Sustainable Brent Cross Cricklewood Plan just as Barnet Council appeared to be facing the prospect that the original scheme could collapse. The London Green MEP said, [...]