Post Tagged with: "Green Party"

  • Promoting World Car Free Day in Islington

    Clean air campaigners joined forces in Islington on Saturday in order to promote World Car Free Day to reduce air pollution in the borough. The group, including Climate Rush and Green Party activists as well as a very pollution conscious dog, handed out leaflets and chalked slogans in car parking spaces […]

     
  • Green Party elects first ever London leader

    The Green Party earlier today elected Camden’s Natalie Bennett as leader. Bennett has stood for Parliament in Holborn and St. Pancras, Camden council and the London Assembly for Greens. This is the first time that the Green Party has had a leader (or deputy) from London. “I am honoured by […]

     
  • Vacancies: Green Party Policy and Research Officer

    Policy and Research Officer, £27,984 per annum. Full Time, Fixed term contract to July/August 2014 This is a new and exciting role with the aim of improving and expanding the longer-term ability of Green Party Policy to develop ideas and polices that resonate with a wider external audience, requiring a high degree […]

     
  • Vacancies: Stagiaire/Intern – Brussels office of Jean Lambert MEP

    An opening has arisen for a Stagiaire in the Brussels office of Jean Lambert, Green MEP for London, starting at the beginning of September 2012 for a period of 6 months. The position provides an excellent opportunity to gain an insight into the everyday workings of the European Parliament, to […]

     
  • Number crunching: Looking closer at the Green vote

    The Green Party achieved an incredible result on Thursday. In a city the size of London it is no mean feat for a minor party with just two councillors to come third place. Although Greens will be disappointed that both they and the Lib Dems have an equal number of […]

     
  • How will the left vote in London?

    Gone are the days when lefties just voted Labour and got on with their lives. Today’s socialist about town has to actually do a bit of thinking when deciding how to vote. In London’s elections it gets even more complicated because you have four votes on three  ballot papers and, […]

     
  • Shock as Green candidate found to be greenest candidate

    Most of the major candidates in the London poll may be the same as 2008, but this election has been different in a few ways this time around. The most striking difference is that specific environmental issues such as cycling and air pollution have risen spectacularly up the political agenda, […]

     
  • Time to clean up London’s air

    Yesterday clean air campaigners came together to demand action over air pollution. The protest organised by activists from Climate Rush comes at a time of growing concern over the health effects of air pollution. Campaigners assembled just as the driving rain cleared away which was either lucky (as it allowed […]

     
  • Green Party launch London election video

    The London Green Party today launched it’s main campaign video for the London elections, a stylish black and white little number from the director Rebecca Frayn, screenwriter for the recent biopic of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. See what you think;   Commentary While not the best Green […]

     
  • Green Party says vote “Jen then Ken” for Mayor

    At an extraordinary meeting of the London Green Party on Monday members voted to recommend Labour’s Ken Livingstone as second preference choice for Mayor (after first choice Green candidate Jenny Jones). Livingstone attended the first half of  the meeting at the Party’s Headquarters, fielding questions on his record and policies, before the […]