Greens reaction to budget blueprint – staff cuts 2nd February 2017 by Councillor Phélim Mac Cafferty commented: “Labour have now published the blueprint for their budget: P&R papers here “Further to a written question I submitted to last full council [1], we know that 309 staff are engaged in consultation exercises which could result in around 39 redundancies. Further consultation exercises will start in the near future affecting […] Read more »
Questions raised about legality of Youth Service cuts as hundreds attend protest march 1st February 2017 by The Council’s Labour administration faced hard hitting questions about their budget proposals as young people gathered last weekend to protest against planned cuts to youth services. The protest followed a meeting of Brighton and Hove City Council last week, where young people presented a petition of more than 2,000 signatures opposing the 80% cuts to […] Read more »
Councillor Phélim Mac Cafferty: "It is shameful that our own PM has failed to take a stand against this hatred." 30th January 2017 by Friends, It is brilliant to see so many people here this evening. We stand shoulder to shoulder with protesters at airports at Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Dallas, New York’s JFK, Raleigh, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta. Over a million people in Britain – and 5.4% of Brighton and Hove’s population, have now signed a petition […] Read more »
Greens Slam Labour Council’s “U-turn” on Council Tax Rises 27th January 2017 by Questions were raised at a meeting of full Council on Thursday as to why the Labour Council leadership seek to introduce Council tax rises they had previously opposed during the Green administration. Responding to a question from Councillor Dick Page, Brighton & Hove Labour’s finance lead Cllr Les Hamilton could not explain why plans to […] Read more »
Council backing for Green proposal to make empty buildings homeless shelters 27th January 2017 by A Green Group motion calling for all empty council buildings to be made available for use as homeless shelters was unanimously supported at a meeting of Brighton and Hove full Council yesterday. [1] The proposals will give voluntary and community sector groups that are ‘able and willing’ access to currently vacant Council buildings and the […] Read more »
Greens hail progress in fight to preserve council’s social housing 27th January 2017 by The Green Group of Councillors have secured a win in the Council’s Housing Committee that may avoid the sale and loss of Brighton’s dwindling social housing stock. In an amendment to current Housing Revenue budget proposals last week, the Greens gained a firm commitment that the Council will explore ways to raise funds without selling […] Read more »
MEP Update: Keith Taylor (27/01/2017) 27th January 2017 by Keith Taylor, MEP for South East England, is joining a legal challenge in Dublin to establish whether Brexit can be reversed. Keith Taylor is among the politicians named today as plaintiffs in the ‘Dublin Case’ which seeks legal clarity on revocability of Article 50. Keith will join Jonathan Bartley, Co-leader of the Green Party of […] Read more »
Blog: “Sleeping on the streets kills” 27th January 2017 by Blog piece by James, local Green Party Member. Too busy during her tenure as Home Secretary telling people ‘in the UK illegally’, must ‘go home or face arrest’, Theresa May appeared to miss the apocalyptic spike in homelessness brought about by David Cameron’s commitment to austerity. A 52 percent spike since 2010 to be exact. […] Read more »
Council will ‘entrench inequality’ if they pursue youth service cuts, say Greens 24th January 2017 by In a letter to the Committee for Neighbourhoods, Communities and Equalities (23rd January), Green Councillor Amanda Knight has outlined how proposed cuts to the youth service are ‘incompatible’ with the Council’s own commitments to equality, diversity and anti-discrimination for Brighton and Hove residents. The letter highlights the findings of the Council’s own Equality Impact Assessment […] Read more »
Green Councillors stand firm on sale of the Downland 20th January 2017 by Green Councillors have rejected the Council’s recommendation to push ahead with planned sales of sites on the Downland Estate. Sites at Plumpton Hill and Poynings came under scrutiny back in December, when the Green Group successfully halted plans to sell the land and requested a report into the protection of the site. However at a […] Read more »