You might have heard on the radio this morning that a Sunday Telegraph/ICm poll has put Labour in third place behind the LibDems on GENERAL ELECTION voting intentions.
The same poll, when asking voting intentions for the EUROPEAN ELECTION next Thursday gave the following headline figures:
Con 29 (-1)
Lib Dem 20 (+2)
Lab 17 (-7)
Green 11 (+1)
UKIP 10 (nc)
BNP 5 (+4)
As I am standing as the West Bridgford West candidate on June4th, I thought I had better give people who want to know what I think something to read. It is at - http://simonanthony-greenparty.blogspot.com/ You can find out what Sue and Richard think by asking them directly, they are both Councillors for Rushcliffe already.
You probably know about Nurse Margaret Haywood, whistleblowing nurse struck off the register for secretly filming inhuman and degrading treatment of elderly patients in a NHS hospital, for BBC Panorama. 40,000 people have now signed an online petition from the Royal College of Nursing calling for her re-instatement.
The Euros and County Council elections are with us again. Sue and Richard have been hard at it for months and have done splendidly with very little help so far. Now is the time to really get together and get our show on to the next level. Sue stands a great chance of being elected as our next Euro MP. Yes, really!
Sue has done it before. She has gained 18% of the Euro vote in the past, but didn't get her seat only because proportional representation had not come in by then. She can do it again. What with the growing public realisation of the importance taking real and positive environmental action and the disclosure of the 'working the system' way of thinking done by the grey parties, we have a marvelous chance.
But, we need help.
Contact Sue and Richard (we never got round to announcing their marriage - sorry) at their address in Lady Bay ASAP if you can help deliver leaflets or can offer support in any other way.
Some of you may have heard of the Transition Towns movement http://www.transiti
ontowns.org/
dedicated to helping communities respond to CLimate Change and Peak Oil.
A group has been set up in Nottingham and will hold a couple of meetings in the next couple of months, see below & attached flyers (1) and (2) for more details.
Councillor G. Richard Mallender
Lady Bay ward, Rushcliffe Borough Council
Chair, Nottingham Green Party
H: 0115 914 0529 M: 07976 775619
For those of you who haven't so far seen them, you can watch a few short videos made about the sterling work done by Green councillors in 3 Green Party strongholds - Norwich, Oxford and Kirklees.
Dear all,
Although we don't have elections in Nottinghamshire this year other part of the country do, including the London Assembly & Mayoral elections.
Tim Beaumont, Lord Beaumont of Whitley, had been our lone Green Party peer since defecting from the old Liberal Party in 1999. Although he had been quite frail for some time he was still working up until the start of this month and was taking answers in the House of Lords to questions he'd put on Biofuels, Public Sector Information and energy efficiency in Building Regulations.
Some of you may know of or have visited Hockerton Housing Project. Well they have just written to me asking us to urgently support their application for a 225kw wind turbine. The turbine will be community owned and will generate enough energy to supply the whole village of Hockerton.
Even though it's all off for the time being we still need as much money as we can get- the more money we have the better we can serve the voters of Nottingham. We selected our candidates and when an election is eventually called they shall be announced on this site. See if you can help us select some more!
Since writing the following article, Northern Rock has suffered a 30% or more fall on the stock market. The instability is getting worse by the minute. Today also the Government is saying it will bribe local councils to build on land against the wishes of local residents. Now read on...
We hear a lot these days about the American Sub Prime mortgage situation. Why should we in Nottingham care? It's a complex and long chain but each link in it is strong one. It could result in us losing not only our green open spaces but also lower the re-sale value of our own homes.
A huge thank you to all that came out on cold days to get letters of support signed and Young Greens who organised a couple of stalls to support The Lindhurst Wind Farm, Nottingham's first wind farm. We had our first wind farm approved which means good, clean energy for 5,000 homes for at least 25 years. Hopefully this will mean that Eakring wind farm may be approved too which is now going to appeal.
I have no doubt that without the 3,200 letters (including one from Caroline Lucas, Green MEP) of support that this would have been another of the 2 out of 3 wind farms that are rejected in the U.K.
It was a high drama and tense committee meeting but common sense prevailed...
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........for once the Tories came through on the Green agenda (not unanimously though as one of them was hell bent that there should be a nuclear power station instead!!)
You might have heard on the news today about an initiative launched by environmentally based charities called the Green Standard, http://www.thegreen
standard.
org.uk/
Two members of Nottingham Young Greens, the youth wing of the Green Party, will be cycling from Nottingham to Helensburgh (near Glasgow) to take part in a peaceful blockade of Faslane nuclear base. Andy Birkby and Dan Casey are both students and members of the Young Greens Society at the University of Nottingham, bucking the trend of apathy seen among people. They will be joined by more Nottingham students and Young Greens in Helensburgh.
A big thank you to all who contributed to the Green Festival stall, and who helped on the day. Despite raining for the whole day we still had fun and helped replenish our funds!
It was wonderful to see so many people committed to the Green cause, whether that be the Green Party itself or the many other groups with stalls there. Thanks especially to the Broxtowe Green Party and to the Young Greens for their help, and to our ace cake seller Amy!
Sue and Richard now form the first ever 'Green Group' on Rushcliffe Council. Sue gained over 1000 votes and Richard gained around 800. The next nearest total was 430 odd, but who's counting !
Greens did well in the other wards , coming second and fourth as well as a high scoring joint last (in Melton). Accurate results will be posted later. But for now, here are some pictures...
The Green Party is callng for a new doctor for Lady Bay following the recent retirement of popular local GP,Dr.Clark,and closure of his surgery on Trent Boulevard.
Councillor Sue Blount recently invited Dr.Martin,a GP who practises at the Greenwood Surgery in Sneinton to speak at a meeting of the Lady Bay Community Association.
The Greenwood Surgery is a successful practice hosting five partners,six practice nurses and two to three trainee doctors. Dr.Martin told local residents that last July he approached Rushcliffe Primary Care Trust with a view to setting up a branch surgery in Lady Bay. This would be fully staffed four to five days per week with a GP and a nurse.
Members from Nottingham Green Party supported the Sustainable Energy Alliance Skill Share held at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales. The Alliance is currently supporting wind farm applications across the country including the application for Lindhurst Windfarm in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire as well as the Gwynt-y-Mor off shore wind farm in Wales. The weekend was aimed at networking, gaining campaigning skills, dispelling turbine myths and learning more about windfarms. The weekend also involved visiting the Carno wind farm which comprises of 56 incredible 600kw turbines. The couple of days spent in the beautiful Welsh countryside proved invaluable and a great source of information. Anyone wanting to actively support the Lindhurst wind farm should go to the Sustainable Energy Alliance website.
3 Green Party candidates for Nottingham's forthcoming council elections spent 30 hours in police custody over the weekend after they were arrested during a peaceful demonstration against the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons arsenal. A group of people from various organisations across Nottingham managed to block the North gate of the base for four hours as part of the Faslane 365 campaign. The aims of the national campaign is to form a continuous peaceful blockade of the Trident base at Faslane from 1st October 2006 to 30th September 2007. So far the campaign has seen 100 days of blockades and 696 arrests.
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The Green Party is callng for a new doctor for Lady Bay following the recent retirement of popular local GP,Dr.Clark,and closure of his surgery on Trent Boulevard.