Liverpool Green Party has doubled our City Council seats after the elections on May 22nd 2014. Liverpool Green Party Chair Tom Crone gained the third seat in St Michaels Ward, joining current Green Councillors Cllr John Coyne and Cllr Sarah Jennings. This is great news for Tom, who previously lost out in 2010 by just over […]
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St Michaels Greens have launched a petition to save Sefton Park Library, asking Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson to reconsider the budget alternatives proposed by Liverpool Councillors. As the petition explains, Liverpool Greens believe that libraries are an important part of our community. The Greens proposed redirecting £1.634m from two separate funds which are used for […]
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Liverpool Green Party will be standing in 29 out of 30 seats in the the city. 17 of the 29 Green candidates will be women, reflecting the strong national leadership shown by Caroline Lucas MP and Natalie Bennett. The Greens will be looking to make St Michaels an all Green ward by electing Tom Crone […]
Public Consultation Questionnaires are available at http://liverpool.gov.uk/council/consultation/consultation-on-a-citywide-selective-licensing-scheme/ and close 16th June 2014. Helping with the consultation will help Liverpool city council regulate private landlords. […]
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Wednesday’s Council budget meeting gave the best evidence yet that the Green Party is right to propose cutting the number of councillors. Not one Labour councillor took part in the budget debate. The Mayor did it all. Why would we need 74 Labour councillors all saying “yes” to the Mayor? Whether he’s cutting services, deleting […]
AMENDMENT 1 Recognising the likelihood of increasing unmet demand from people suffering hardship, particularly from the “bedroom tax” and from the reduction in council tax support, the Citizens’ Support Scheme should be increased by £340k for 2015/16 and 2016/17. That provision should be funded by a reduction, from 2015/16, in the budget for the basic […]
Liverpool Green Party has welcomed the success of a petition launched by Green MP Caroline Lucas asking Parliament to review the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act. It has now reached the 100,000 signatures that will trigger a parliamentary debate on our failing drugs law. Cllr John Coyne said “There is no doubt that the ‘war […]
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Liverpool Green Party is calling on all households to recycle more and to make the best of the new situation where the council is imposing a service reduction, moving from weekly to fortnightly collection of general waste for more than half of the houses in the city. Green councillors, candidates and activists want to help […]
Liverpool’s Green Councillors today joined cyclists, bus and taxi operators to react to the shock announcement that Liverpool’s Mayor wants to scrap bus lanes. The Mayor is said to want a 9 month switch-off of enforcement cameras starting next month. But the Green Party is ready to use the “call-in” procedure so that the idea […]
We recognise the case for some kind of Combined Authority (CA) for Liverpool City Region, but we have disagreements with the current prospectus for such an authority. We recognise that the effects of the government’s austerity programme have hit our subregion particularly hard, combining with pre-existing problems of deprivation and relatively high levels of unemployment. […]
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