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27th June 2024 / 2nd July 2024 by ExtComms
Here’s some fact-checker info to help you understand the local context as there’s been a lot of misinformation in the election campaign – last updated 27 June 2024 “The Green Council” – fact: we don’t have a Green council, the city has a majority Labour-run council Bins / missed refuse collections This has been […]
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22nd June 2024 / 24th June 2024 by ExtComms
Pic: empty chairs or rather in foreground the empty desk for the city’s three Labour MP candidates at the Workers Question Time hustings. Elaine Hills, the Green MP candidate for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven, noted on X/Twitter the absence of the all six (overall total) Tory and Labour city MP candidates at a key local […]
20th June 2024 / 23rd June 2024 by ExtComms
Greens criticise Labour’s rushed decision-making on Brighton & Hove Council’s schools closure Picture from December 2023: St Bartholomew’s Church of England Primary School (central Brighton). Greens call for a change of course, as children are left without school places for September start of the school year. 20 June 2024: The Labour city council administration repeatedly […]
14th June 2024 / 14th June 2024 by ExtComms
England and Wales Greens launched their national manifesto at Sussex County Cricket Ground in Hove – 12 June The Green Party’s manifesto is designed to “invest to mend broken Britain.” The Party says that a fairer, greener tax system will raise tens of billions of pounds by asking super-rich multimillionaires and billionaires to pay more, equalising […]
11th June 2024 / 12th June 2024 by ExtComms
11 June 2024: The Green Party MP candidate for Brighton Pavilion constituency has issued a challenge to all other candidates to sign up to a ‘Clean Campaign Promise’. Siân Berry said: “Now we have the final list of people standing, I would like to challenge all the other candidates in Brighton Pavilion to agree to […]
2nd June 2024 / 12th June 2024 by ExtComms
Former councillor Ollie Sykes selected as Green Party candidate in Brunswick & Adelaide by-election Brighton and Hove Green Party has selected former Brunswick & Adelaide councillor, Ollie Sykes, as the Green Party candidate for the Brunswick & Adelaide by-election on Thursday 4th July. This council by-election will be held on the same day as the […]
13th May 2024 / 13th May 2024 by ExtComms
13 May 2024 In March, Labour-run Brighton & Hove City Council proposed to merge the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (HOSC) into a ‘People’ Scrutiny Committee, under new governance arrangements. Following objections from Green Councillors, they quietly reversed their proposals and HOSC is to remain as its own committee. The purpose of HOSC is to […]
6th May 2024 / 7th May 2024 by ExtComms
Green candidates congratulated the new Labour councillors on being elected to represent the people of Kemptown and Queen’s Park wards on Brighton & Hove City Council. The results, which were announced Sunday afternoon, showed a drop in support for Labour and an increase in support for the Greens. There was a 8.5% swing from Labour […]
30th April 2024 / 1st May 2024 by ExtComms
30 April 2024 – Green Party candidates for the Queen’s Park and Kemptown city council by-elections Thursday 2 May, Luke Walker and Ricky Perrin, are calling on the Labour Party to be honest with residents and apologise for the involvement of Labour councillors in reinstating employees sacked for bullying at CityClean, the troubled council-operated waste collection […]
13th April 2024 / 16th April 2024 by ExtComms
13 April 2024 – The Green Party has chosen former BBC journalist Jonathan Kent as its candidate for Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner. Voters across Sussex, including Brighton & Hove, will go to the polls on Thursday 2 May to pick the new Police and Crime Commissioner, the same day as two Brighton & Hove […]
