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7th May 2017 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
NB: This article applies to a parliamentary candidate for the 2017 General Election. What is your background and when did you come to live in Greenwich? I’m South African by origin from Johannesburg. I came to London in 2008 when I was 25, just for the adventure really and I wasn’t disappointed. Like most young […]
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5th May 2017 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Ann Garrett is secretary of Bromley and Beckenham CND, joint convenor of Bromley Peace Council, joint co-ordinator of Bromley Green Party and Friends of the Earth, joint chair of Save Our Local Hospitals and Services (Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley group) and a member of Amnesty, Bromley Cuts Concern, Greenpeace, Bromley Civic Society, Bromley Against Fracking, […]
I’ve lived in South London for eight years and I am very proud of my wonderful community in Woolwich Dockyard where I’ve lived for three years. Update: Dan has moved to Southend and is now helping the local Green Party to gain council seats there. We thank him for his contributions. As the co-coordinator for […]
1st May 2017 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Stratford
Last night we made Green history in Greenwich & Woolwich by keeping our deposit for the first time ever as well as beating the Lib Dems. Our candidate Abbey Akinoshun nearly trebled our vote from 2010, taking 6.4 percent of the vote with a swing of 3.8 percent. That was a greater swing than to […]
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15th June 2016 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Tackling climate change, protecting wildlife and cleaning up our environment needs international cooperation. Endangered species, fragile ecosystems, oil spills and livestock diseases do not obey man-made boundaries, and neither do the winds, floods and storms that grow fiercer every year. Fine, but why can’t countries co-operate on this outside the EU? Governments come and go; […]
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 […]
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 […]