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4th January 2016 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Proposals include abolition of zones and ‘ONE Ticket’ to end extra payments changing from mainline, DLR or bus to Tube. On the day transport fares go up throughout the country, activists from Greenwich and Lewisham Green Parties will today hand out #FairFares postcards to commuters at Overground, DLR and mainline stations across the two boroughs […]
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1st May 2015 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Yesterday the Labour candidate in the forthcoming Greenwich West by-election announced he had brokered a meeting between Divest Greenwich, which is campaigning for the Labour-controlled Royal Borough of Greenwich to withdraw its investments in fossil fuels, and council leader Denise Hyland. Greenwich Green Party warmly welcomes any change of attitude on this issue. It follows […]
24th April 2015 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Labour candidate Matt Pennycook supports his party’s pro-fracking position, and thinks we can frack our way to a low-carbon future. Here’s why he’s wrong. Matt Pennycook’s election pamphlet recently dropped onto our doormats. He tells us that Labour will try and decarbonise our energy supply. Great! But wait a minute. The last we heard, Labour were […]
9th April 2015 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Stratford
Our part of London is being turned into a luxury high-rise quarter to benefit wealthy outsiders, but the local MP has spent years cheering the building frenzy on. That’s no surprise: Nick Raynsford was paid twice as much by the construction industry last year as he was to represent his constituents. Now that he is finally […]
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