News
10 February 2015 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Martin Dobson is the Green Party Spokesperson for Culture Media and Sports and the parliamentary candidate for Liverpool Riverside. Martin lives in Liverpool and works as a multi-media designer and musician. Tomorrow he joins Ed Vaizey (Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries) Bob and Roberta Smith (artist and Independent Candidate for Surrey Heath) Baroness […]
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7 February 2015 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Martin Dobson is the Green Party Spokesperson for Culture Media and Sports. He works as a multi-media designer and musician in Liverpool and tomorrow join Culture Minister Ed Vaizey, Shadow Culture Minister Harriet Harman, and Ukip’s Culture spokesperson Peter Whittle, in a debate chaired by arts and current affairs journalist Rosie Whittle.The Big Arts Debate […]
19 January 2015 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party has reported a membership surge to over 420 local members after an astonishing week of growth for the Greens nationally, which saw over 4000 new members join the England and Wales Green Party in just 48 hours – one new member every 20 seconds. At times, the Green website was shutdown due […]
15 January 2015 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party have criticised all five Labour MPs in the city for failing to vote against George Osbourne’s “Austerity Charter” in the House of Commons yesterday. While some well-known Labour rebels joined Green MP Caroline Lucas, alongside the SNP and Plaid Cymru MPs in voting against the austerity bill, the vast majority of Labour […]
Elections
12 January 2015 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Independent Liverpool councillor, Jake Morrison, has thrown his weight behind the Greens in the run up to the General Election contest in Liverpool Wavertree. Morrison resigned from the Labour Party in 2013 and announced his intention to stand as an independent candidate against Ms Berger. [1] In November, he announced he would instead stand down […]
5 January 2015 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
In support of the Liberal Party’s motion to the City Council Meeting on 14th January 2015, Green Councillors are calling on the Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem parties to cancel planned cuts to local government funding for next year and beyond. An amendment to the Liberal’s motion will be put forward that will call for a local […]
2 January 2015 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Martin Dobson Parliamentary Candidate for Liverpool Riverside says “2015 looks like it will be a watershed year for the Green Party. People are flocking to us because we are the only party that has policies and the vision that Britain needs. We alone have policies that tackle the increasing gap between rich and poor and […]
12 December 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool’s Green Party is calling on Mayor Joe Anderson to make good on his claim to have “saved” all of the city’s public libraries because he has still not given any details about how this would happen, nor has he confirmed that libraries will continue to be run by trained librarians. The Mayor announced on […]
7 December 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
The Green Party’s General Election candidate in Liverpool Riverside, Martin Dobson, has accused the Labour Party of double standards on their approach to dealing with poor air quality. Speaking in response to a report published today by the Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee in which the Labour chair of the group, Joan Walley MP called for […]
18 November 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Green Party groups on Merseyside support the devolution of powers from Whitehall to the Merseyside region but want the people of Merseyside to have a say in the creation of a Mayor or an Assembly for Merseyside. Councillor John Coyne Leader of the Greens in Liverpool City Council says “A Mayor for Merseyside on it’s […]
