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2 March 2021 / 3 March 2021 by pressofficer
The Green Party will deliver an alternatve Budget for the city at Wednesday’s Council meeting that makes a priority of kick-starting a post-Covid green economic recovery. Green Party Group leader, and candidate for City Mayor, Tom Crone said: ‘It is nearly two years since the council declared a climate emergency, yet its Budget plans point […]
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24 February 2021 / 25 February 2021 by pressofficer
Dan Fieldsend and Cllr Lawrence Brown outside Greenbank Park Greenbank Green councillor Lawrence Brown today (Thursday February 24) called on the council to back local residents opposed to the extension of the Watering Can café into the local park’s memorial walled garden. Greenbank Park was bought for the people of Liverpool in 1897 from the […]
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23 February 2021 / 23 February 2021 by pressofficer
Liverpool City Council Green Group leader Tom Crone today (Tuesday February 23) called for a ‘Clean-hands Cabinet’ to lead the city out of the chaos caused by Labour dropping Acting Mayor and two other leading councillors as candidates for elections in May. Cllr Crone said: ‘The city has been left leaderless and rudderless. Labour has […]
Everton News Press Releases
City planners will today (Tuesday February 23) be urged to insist on changes to new ground plans for Everton Football Club to bring them into line with Council promises to hit climate change targets by 2030. Green Party Group leader Tom Crone will tell the council planning committee today that the new ground has the […]
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5 February 2021 / 23 February 2021 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party today (Friday February 5) called for May’s local elections to be postponed to protect the public and democracy. The call came after the Cabinet Office said the elections would go ahead but with restrictions on campaigning and support to get voters to the polls. The party, which is fielding council candidates across […]
Elections News Press Releases
18 January 2021 / 19 January 2021 by pressofficer
Green Party members across the six boroughs have backed Liverpool-born actor Gary Cargill to become City Region Mayor in May’s election. Runcorn-based Gary pledged to turn the City Region green and ‘inspire real long-lasting change.’ The government insists the election for Liverpool City Region Mayor will go ahead, despite concerns over Covid 19 - and […]
10 December 2020 / 10 December 2020 by pressofficer
Tom Crone, Green Group leader on Liverpool City Council today (Thursday December 8) welcomed the decision of Joe Anderson to stand down as city Mayor. Cllr Crone said that his role had become untenable. ‘His continued presence as police investigations continue is a distraction at an already challenging time for the city. ‘The Green Group […]
8 December 2020 / 8 December 2020 by pressofficer
Tom Crone, Green Group leader on Liverpool City Council today (Tuesday December 8) called for a cross-party consensus to bring the city back from the brink of Tory government intervention. Cllr Crone said that continued uncertainty over the role of Mayor Joe Anderson while police investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption continue was damaging […]
7 December 2020 / 8 December 2020 by pressofficer
Green Party Councillors in Liverpool have observed recent events in the city with a great deal of concern. While we have no wish to get involved in the legal processes which must be allowed to progress, without undue influence from any quarter, nevertheless, it is vitally important that arrangements are put in place now to […]
4 December 2020 / 8 December 2020 by pressofficer
Time to rethink waste and damage of HS2, Greens tell Metro Mayor Embargo IMMEDIATE RELEASE Liverpool Green councillors today (Friday December 4) urged Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram to withdraw his support for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s high-speed HS2 rail project that will deprive the region of green transport funds for years to come. In an […]
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29 May 2020 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party today (Friday May 29) wrote to Mayor Joe Anderson urging him to offer people the chance to get back to work safely by extending the new temporary cycle network to cover all the city’s major roads and to consider making it permanent. The party backed the call with a city-wide petition signed by over […]
18 May 2020 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
A bee enjoying a trefoil flower. There are signs, in messages flying around the city of people’s concern over “scruffiness” as grass verges and park grasslands remain unmowed, and living things begin to grow. The whole of nature has put on a good show through the lockdown. There seem to be more birds around, vigorously singing. Plants also […]
12 April 2020 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Dear Matt Hancock MP, We have watched with increasing incredulity and pain the bitter harvest of recent Governments’ weakening of civil society and public services, and the incompetence of the response to the pandemic. This is in stark contrast to the courage and competence of the staff in our weakened public services. For at least […]
8 April 2020 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
As the crisis caused by the Covid 19 virus deepens we are seeing new hospitals being built to cope with a predicted rise in demand for intensive care units. These have been named after one of outstanding nurses of the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale. Other notable women from British History include Jamaican born Mary Seacole, […]
16 December 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Green Party Councillor Tom Crone’s response to the Liverpool Cirty Council’s £47M LIVERPOOL TRANSPORT PLAN TO ENTER NEW PHASE Press Release ‘I welcome the news that the 82 bus, and other services will continue to use Hanover Street. This means well loved services, that people have relied on for decades will continue. However, I called for congestion […]
8 November 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
On 31st October there was another eventful Regeneration and Highways Select Committee meeting. We had an update about Liverpool’s air quality plan. Tom Crone criticized it for not being as ambitious as Bristol, who have declared that they will ban all diesel cars from the city centre, or Leeds who are creating car-free areas of […]
2 October 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool City Council plans to spend many millions of pounds on changing the road layout in Liverpool. In the process they plan to reduce bus services. The Green Party opposes these changes. We should be doing the opposite: improving public transport so that fewer cars will clog up our roads. This is all the more important […]
2 September 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
The UK’s Green MEPs have written to leading supermarkets asking them to carry out an audit of their supply chains to identify products on their shelves that have come from the Brazilian Amazon [1]. The call comes in the wake of the 70,000 destructive fires that have swept through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Commenting on the letter, […]
28 August 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Dear Boris, Thank you for your letter advising me of your intention to prorogue Parliament. I have received many other letters, phone calls and emails today from constituents who are increasingly frightened by what’s happening to our country. Your utter disregard for basic democratic standards, the sovereignty of Parliament and the rights of voters to […]
The Green Party says HS2 would arrive too late to help avert climate breakdown with massive up-front energy costs in construction. The Green Party would divert HS2 funding to better improvements in the conventional rail network. including disability access for all railway stations. Green council leader Tom Crone said “In a climate emergency, the last […]
21 July 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
A mixture of good and bad: Good – more and more local councils around the region are declaring Climate Emergencies; in many cases this has been as a result of work by Green Councillors (e.g. Burnley) or Green Party activists pushing from outside (e.g. Blackpool). The proof of the pudding will be in the resulting […]
This past month we have had to bid farewell to Andy Fewings, one of our two Field Organisers. Andy stepped into the role in January on what at the time was a five-month contract. He would have very much liked to continue but pressure of work in his other career, plus the challenge of leading […]
28 June 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Councillor Tom Crone writes: A consultation is underway on sweeping changes to bus services in the city. Green Cllrs will be objecting due to the scrapping of the 86D, the 82D and the 82C which affects the wards they serve. You may find that services you rely on are affected too. Please take a look […]
9 May 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
We are all having to face up to the fact that to meet the challenge of climate change we have to manage our own carbon budgets very tightly indeed. Flying and mechanized sailing are considerable contributors to both atmospheric carbon dioxide, and more generalised air pollution. Attractive as travel is we need to minimise our […]