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7 May 2019 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Climate change is happening faster than anyone thought it would. Our governments are not being honest about the speed and the scale of the breakdown. Half of the carbon emissions that are currently heating our planet have been emitted over the last thirty years – when we’ve known what we were doing. Despite the Paris […]
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4 May 2019 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Prior to these elections we had no principal tier Councillors in the North East. We now have 4 Councillors! We have massively increased our representation across the region, and we are giving residents green elected representation for the first time ever. We also had a number of close second places, which points to our hard […]
3 June 2017 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
We were delighted to have Caroline Lucas, Co-Leader of the Green Party, visit the North East in December. She spoke first at a public meeting in Durham on Thursday 8th on what the city would look like if it really met all of people’s needs. Her key point was that a Green Industrial Strategy is […]
3 January 2017 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
13 July 2016 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Britain is playing with the idea of‘city bosses’, mayors with a much stronger political role, something quite common abroad. In the 1960s, T. Dan Smith did a similar job in the NE and it was one that ought not to be repeated.
28 April 2016 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
The North East England region of the Green Party will not be contesting these elections. The deposit of £5,000 for each of the three candidates in our region is punitive, restricting candidatures to organisations with rich backers. This is quite undemocratic. The position itself is not only too centralised but also too isolated from other […]
1 December 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
A transcript of the speech Shirley Ford delivered at the NE Climate March in November 2015
25 October 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
The North East England Green Party has condemned the Government’s newly announced devolution deals for the North East as undemocratic and paltry. The party say they want much greater devolution for local communities instead.
16 July 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
The green movement in the North East in general and Tyneside in paricular scarcely appears in standard histories of the area. Yet it has existed for many years, green movement in the North East in general and Tyneside in particular. Indeed one of the fist mass movements with a strong environmental element was the local […]
20 June 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
It is a bad day for Newcastle, for ordinary citizens of the city and for critical wildlife habitat when a Labour-dominated council and its planning committee back what is actually a speculative business development in Green Belt land at Woolsington Hall. It is a scheme by tycoon Sir John Hall that will only cater for […]
30 April 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
A battle is brewing over the future of long established woodlands on the NW edge of Newcastle at Woolsington Hall. The owner, Cameron Hall Developments, has put forward a wholly unsustainable and socially regressive scheme. Despite the same old promises of ‘jobs and growth’, this development is the epitome of what the area does not […]
29 March 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
The Green Party strongly opposes the new Leisure development proposed near the Gosforth Nature Reserve by the American developers ‘Max a Millions’. There are several reasons why this development is of the wrong kind and in the wrong place. Such land should be used to enhance outdoor opportunities (walking, jogging, cycling, wildlife conservation work, etc.), all […]
27 February 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
The rail network should be brought back into public ownership and the East Coast Mainline should not have been privatised again says the North East England Green Party. The North East Green Party urges the House of Commons to vote for the Bill for a publicly owned railway being presented by the Green MP Caroline […]
20 February 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
County Durham Green Party is celebrating success following today’s release of the Inspector’s Interim Report on the ‘soundness of the County Durham Plan’, having played a central role along with other Durham groups in raising concerns with the plan. The Green Party, along with numerous other Durham based organisations and community groups, spent many months […]
13 November 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Shirley Ford, Green Party parliamentary candidate for South Shields, took part in More Power to the North? debate on BBC1 on 5 November. She challenged the lack of democracy in local government, with power having been centralised into the hands of cabinets of a very few councillors, and argued for a layer of community councils […]
22 October 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Green Dreams for Better Buses move a step closer Green Party welcomes yesterday’s decision by North East Council Leaders in favour of the regulation of bus services in Tyne and Wear.Affordable and reliable buses are a key part of Green transport policies, and are essential for encouraging the much more sustainable and lesspolluting option of […]
2 September 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Dear Sir/Madam In response to the article about food banks in the Saturday edition, can I make a suggestion? Lets cut through all the complexity, conditionality, sanctions and means testing of the benefit system and give every UK resident- man, woman and child- a Citizen’s or basic income, whether on no wage, low or high wage,carer, part-time worker, […]
12 June 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Roads to Nowhere Green Party statement on Newcastle-Gateshead Core Strategy Examination and Transport Policy Planned new roads and new road lanes[i] are no solution Serious threat to public health from poor air quality caused by traffic levels 124 deaths occurred in Newcastle alone last year due to air pollution (4.9% of all deaths of people over […]
22 May 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Today voters in the North East go to the polls in one of the closest fought, and most important, European elections in years. The sessions of the European Parliament take place a long way from the North East. Yet the laws it passes affect all of us, every single day and, on balance, for the better. Whether it’s setting air quality rules, international […]
18 May 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Green MEPs have consistently worked to make Europe a force for peace and justice in the world. We will continue to work to ensure that the EU, as it currently is, will use its power for good. However, we believe that foreign policy and defence policy ought to be determined by national governments, not the EU. […]
15 April 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
A reminder to anyone who is free on the evening of 29th April – tickets are on sale for this event at Sage Gateshead (£7/£5) and it would be great to get as many GP members and friends there as possible, to support the musicians and raise important questions during the discussion. It’s a chance […]
31 March 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Shirley Ford speaks out against fracking
14 March 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Sustainability, Transport & Local Traffic The road to sustainability will be a hard and at times tempestuous one. There is the big picture that reveals the depth and breadth of the ecological crisis ahead, one that may well cause severe economic disruption and social dislocation. Fuel prices, for example, seem set to rise and rise […]
30 August 2013 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Shirley Ford, lead Green Party Euro-candidate for North East England writes: The Government backing for ‘extreme energy’ development such as coal gasification under the sea (£1bn energy scheme, The Journal, October 23) is symptomatic of the desperation of the main parties, big business and others to keep a failing show on the road. This backing […]