Greens back Junior Doctors: Government playing with fire over the dispute
Natalie Bennett, Green Party Leader, attended a picket outside Barnet General Hospital today to demonstrate the Green Party's solidarity with junior doctors. Greens oppose the creeping privatisation of...
View ArticleTerrence Higgins Trust condemns government decision on Sex and Relationships...
Already two months later than expected, having promised to comment by the end of last year, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has ignored countless reports, evidence and calls - most notably from the...
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Sending the Heathrow13 to prison threatens everyone's right to protest
Shahrar Ali (far left) deputy leader of the Green Party at Willesden Magistrates demonstration January 18th
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Brent House development in Wembley High Road given the go ahead
Existing Brent HouseThe proposalBrent Planning Committee has approved proposals for the redevelopment of Brent House in the High Road, Wembley.The proposed development would be between the new...
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Can Red and Green work as a team?
People on the left are sometimes perplexed when I say I am a socialist and ask why then I am not in the Labour Party. This was easier to answer under the pro-austerity pro-neoliberalism previous Labour...
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Should Greens and Labour 'think the unthinkable' to topple the Tories?
Following on from the last article this is another Guest Blog, this time from Davy Jones. It was first published by Labour Briefing LINK I am no longer a member of the Brent Green Party Committee but...
View ArticleBrent admits single Scrutiny Committee failures and proposes a change to two...
Less than two years after the adoption of the controversial decision to have just one Scrutiny Committee in Brent proposals are to go before the Cabinet to have two Scrutiny Committees. If adopted this...
View ArticleDetails of new uplifted Brent councillor allowances for 2016-17
Perhaps it is not a great public relations strategy to be discussing a 1% increase in councillor allowances at the same Full Council Meeting which will be agreeing a budget that cuts services, but...
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Privately owned 'public' space an issue for Mayoral election as Greens fight...
Proposed Elvin Square, Quintain, Wembley Park Many of the regeneration schemes in Brent, especially the Quintain development around Wembley Stadium, boast of new open space in the form of squares,...
View ArticleProposals that might breathe a little more life into Brent Council meetings
Brent Full Council meetings have become a bit of a joke with a familar structure of leader grandstanding from both sides, ritual party political exchanges in a pale imitation of the House of Commons...
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Down the drain in King Edward VII Park, Wembley
From Friends of King Eddies blog LINK Thames Water are investigating drainage works in King Eddie's by putting cameras in the drain that runs down towards Castleton Avenue through the park.The Council...
View ArticleGovernment attack on ethical procurement and divestment slammed by Greens
New government guidance aimed at restricting the ability of public bodies to boycott suppliers is a muzzle on free speech says the Green Party's new business spokesperson.Rachel Collinson, the party’s...
View ArticleEmergency Rally: Save our NHS - No to the Imposition of the Junior Doctors...
From People's Assembly Following the Governments shameful decision to impose the new contracts for junior doctors, we are working with doctors, nurses, trade unions and NHS campaigners to organise an...
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Meet tomorrow to help plan Grunwick commemoration 40 years on
Painting by Dan JonesPlans are forging ahead to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Grunwick strike, one of the most significant events for trade unionists and anti-racists in the last...
View ArticleBarry Gardiner and Brent Council at loggerheads over mega primary
The Kilburn Times LINK reports today that Barry Gardiner, Labour MP for Brent North, accompanied by Martin Dickens, chair of Parents Against Byron Court School Expansion and Suzanne D'Sousa, chair of...
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Only 224 take part in Brent's budget consultation
Much has been made of Brent Coucil's consultation on the budget and so it is interesting to see how many 'self-selected' people have participated in this budget round. 'Engagement' is clearly an...
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