Elections
12 February 2015 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
In the face of speculation over a possible electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats, Cllr John Coyne announced the firm decision of Liverpool Green Party to say “No” to any such pact. It had been suggested that opposition parties should stand aside for each other in some wards so that a single opposition candidate could […]
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John Coyne Green Party councilor for St Michaels ward will table a motion to Liverpool City Council’s Regeneration Select Committee Meeting on Thursday 12th suggesting an alternative site if Everton decides to leave Goodison Park. The site he will propose is at Stonebridge Cross in Croxteth ward. The Greens are responding to current fears that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
10 November 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
The Green Party welcomes Mayor Anderson’s announcement on Radio Merseyside this morning that Liverpool Council will now save all the 11 at risk libraries for the long term. We congratulate all the people who have campaigned for this result. This successful campaign has demonstrated how important local libraries are to the lives of the people […]
22 October 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
The Green Party are calling for more evidence before 20 years worth of bus lanes are scrapped. The cabinet are set to approve a report calling for most of Liverpool’s bus lanes to be abolished. Greens will argue that the report being scrutinised by Regeneration Committee today does not adequately make the case for permanently […]
3 October 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool’s Green Councillors were aware of the plans to build allotments at Beloe Street and had been content, on balance, for that to go ahead. Late in the day, the Green Party was approached by neighbouring residents who were unhappy that their elected representatives were not listening to them. We agreed that those residents deserved representation […]
23 September 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Cllr Tom Crone’s maiden speech in the City Council chamber called for Liverpool to join the best local authorities in Britain that are bringing the 20mph speed limit to some or even all of their main roads. With most road casualties occurring on main roads, slower speeds on some of these roads could save lives. You […]
17 August 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
I know from experience that the Cabinet can be a tough gig for an opposition councillor who is trying to get a point across. The Mayor is in a position of undisputed power: he chairs the meeting; he is the administration’s speaker; he interrupts at will. There is no right of reply when he abuses […]
Campaigns
14 August 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Green Party members were among the demonstrators opposing the closure of Sefton Park library at the weekend, one of eleven community libraries that are threatened with closure by the City Council. Following the publication of the proposals by the Labour dominated Council, the Green Party pledged to campaign to retain library services at as many of […]
Campaigns News
9 August 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
The mayor is angry that the Greens are thinking of better ways to do things for the city and making a point of talking about them in public. We wonder if the mayor has lost his memory before writing this defensive piece regarding his and the Labour group’s decision regarding the Liverpool Library closures, where closing 11 out of […]
1 July 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party has today announced that Cllr John Coyne, the current leader of the opposition on the council, will not be seeking re-election when his term as a councillor ends next year. Speaking today to the Echo, Cllr Coyne explained his reasons:“I was first elected to represent people in the old Dingle ward back […]
The news that Syrian chemical weapons are going to be decommissioned by Veolia at Ellesmere Port will concern many local people. These weapons do have to be decommissioned and this has to be done safely, but there is a much bigger lesson for us to learn. The departing Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has admitted that between […]
Updated projections by DEFRA show that the Liverpool urban area will fail to comply with air quality targets until at least 2020. The European Union sets a pollution limit on the amount of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the local environment. It can have a particularly bad effect on existing health conditions such as asthma. Air pollution […]
Recently elected St Michaels Councillor Tom Crone appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Politics North West this weekend, debating whether we need to replace the Trident Weapons System, as it’s lifespan draws to a close. Tom appeared in a segment about the replacement of the Trident Weapons system, arguing strongly that the replacement of the system […]
Liverpool Greens condemn the mayor’s moves to extend the bus lane trial until November, which was due to end late in July. He claimed the amount of road works in the city made a proper evaluation impossible. The decision will go to the Bus Lane Scrutiny Panel on Monday 14th July. Cllr Tom Crone has […]