Due to Labour Councillor, Candida Jones stepping down, there will be a council by-election in Furzedown on the 20th June. The results will be carefully watched by all parties following the serious drubbing the country’s two main parties have suffered in the European Elections. In the Euro’s, the Green Party was 3rd favourite for voters in Wandsworth, knocking […]
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Sian Berry Selected for Green London Mayor Candidate
Sian Berry has been confirmed as the Green Party’s candidate to run for Mayor of London. She will be standing alongside a strong and diverse team of people ready to represent Londoners on the Assembly and cement our status as London’s third party in the 2020 elections. You can donate to our Mayoral and […]
Wandsworth Council to Divest From Fossil Fuels
Ok, so the headline isn’t true… yet. But that’s why we are calling on Wandsworth Council to divest the £137,000,000 from it’s pension fund that it currently invests in the fossil fuel industry. We want a clear ‘declaration of principle’ of the pension trustees to divest 100% of all fossil fuels holdings, direct and indirect, […]
Silencing Peaceful Protest
On 26 September four protesters were found guilty of public nuisance after several days’ occupying trucks delivering equipment to the Preston New Road shale gas fracking site in Lancashire. Three of these protesters, Simon Roscoe Blevins, Rich Loizou and Putney resident, Richard Roberts received prison sentences of over a year. They broke the law. Is […]