The Green Party has selected Noel Lynch, Andrew Newby and Steve Norman as its candidates for East Finchley ward in the Barnet Council elections to take place in May.

Noel on the campaign trail

East Finchley is Barnet Green Party’s top target ward and Noel, Andrew and Steve are aiming to win. Please vote for them!

Noel Lynch – long-time East Finchley campaigner:

Green Party stalwart and former London Assembly member Noel Lynch has campaigned in East Finchley for many years. He is currently pushing for improvements to East Finchley’s bus links, in particular for a new route to the Royal Free Hospital.

Noel said: “London Greens are proposing the cancellation of Boris Johnson’s recent approval of a big rise in bus fares. Boris doesn’t care about ordinary people or the environment.” Noel has fought to protect East Finchley and other neighbourhood communities and has been a long-time champion of small business.

Andrew backs solar panels

Andrew Newby – angry at uncaring Barnet Council:

Financial journalist Andrew Newby has had his home in the borough for 23 years. He is furious at Barnet Council’s weak social and environmental policies and its refusal to adopt the Sustainable Communities Act.

“Some Green policies are unglamorous, such as better insulation of private and social housing, but they can save money and give everyone a better quality of life,” he says. In Totteridge ward in 2006 he doubled the Green Party vote, beating Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates. In East Finchley he aims to beat all other parties and win a council seat.

Steve Norman – defends human and animal rights:

Steve and Candy but where's that bus?

East Finchley-born Steve Norman is a professional gardener but it wasn’t just the environment which led him to join the Greens. “I joined because of its policies on animal rights and civil liberties issues. I am concerned about corporate interests being given priority over human rights,” he said. Steve himself coordinated a campaign against greyhound racing, focussed on Walthamstow track, which has now closed down.

Steve first stood in East Finchley ward in 2006 campaigning alongside Noel. In that year Noel and Andrew were the top polling  Barnet Greens, with Steve not far behind.