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1st September 2024 / 29th September 2024 by Editorial Team
Earlier this summer we had a great turn out to our local Green Party fundraising quiz for Dover Pantry. A great location in St Radigund’s ward at the Old Endeavour pub, 124 London Rd, Dover and a great team of organisers, Steph O’Connor, Christine Oliver, Zachary Cooke and Simon Phillips, meant that we raised close to […]
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Development News
11th May 2024 / 11th May 2024 by Editorial Team
What was especially sickening in news of Elphicke’s defection to Labour, was to hear that Elphicke ‘has been offered a role advising Labour on housing’ (BBC-SE TV 6pm). So self-interest from Elphicke, a new low in UK politics. Her welcome from Keir Starmer doesn’t reflect well on the Labour front bench either. Green Party MP […]
News
30th May 2023 by Editorial Team
”It is one thing to take power, another to do so with respect for other opposition parties. Our colleagues in Folkestone and Hythe have shown the way forward, increasing democracy and reducing control-freakery,” said Christine Oliver, Dover and Deal’s Green prospective parliamentary candidate. Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) has become the first in Kent […]
26th May 2023 by Editorial Team
The mission of Dover and Deal Green Party is to resolve or mitigate the interlinked crises of climate and ecological emergency and cost-of-living. With a 40degree heat wave experienced in the UK in July 2022, the climate emergency is not a party political slogan. It is reality; things are worse than when we initiated 3 […]
News Walmer Town Council
1st May 2023 / 1st May 2023 by Editorial Team
The new secure cycle storage hub at Walmer station, funded mostly by Southeastern, with some input from Walmer Town Council (WTC) is very close to completion! The installation has been pushed through by Councillor (Cllr) John Lonsdale, who has served as one of the 3 Green Party councillors on the mostly Independent 2019-2023 Walmer Town […]
20th March 2023 / 20th March 2023 by Editorial Team
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lonpicman, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Letter published in Mercury 15th March – In bold sentences cut when published. Also sent to Dover Express. Totalitarian one-party states are regimes where those in power control the state broadcaster and public discourse. In functional democracies, a party with temporary political power does not control a […]
27th February 2023 / 4th March 2023 by Editorial Team
Letter published in Dover Mercury 22 Feb 2023: No doubt in the run up to local elections this May and with a General Election on the horizon, we will continue to hear from Conservatives at Dover District Council what a boon the £45 million 'Levelling Up' money will be for Dover and Deal. The leader […]
5th February 2023 by Editorial Team
On 1st of February a 5 person team from Dover district’s Green party were out supporting union members’ campaigns at a demonstration called by South East Kent Trades Union Council and local branches of PCS, NEU, RMT, UCU and other unions. (Picture shows cllr Beccy Sawbridge & Sarah Gleave and other Greens). National evidence shows […]
12th October 2022 by Editorial Team
Much support for national Climate Coalition week of action, just days after Truss govt’s #AttackOnNature On Saturday 1st October Deal Market hosted a stall with nothing for sale, but with much food for thought. Market-goers were invited to experience a display laying bare the urgency of the climate crisis, and campaigners were overwhelmed by the […]
12th October 2022 / 12th October 2022 by Editorial Team
Dover & Deal Green Party sent an open letter to all 20 DDC Conservative councillors, about the Truss government's #AttachOnNature, hoping for a reply before the Conservative Conference ends. Local Greens called on local Conservative councillors (cllrs) to join them in disowning government attack on nature. (The Green and Independent group on KCC has sent […]
Environment News
30th July 2022 / 6th August 2022 by Editorial Team
Reality wake-up call, Mon 18, and Tues 19 July. More frequent heatwaves, higher than before and English farmers saying their yields knocked back by 20% in a year when threats to national food and fuel supply are hitting headlines, and, more importantly, driving up a dangerous cost of living crisis. One thing leads to another […]
16th June 2022 by Editorial Team
We deplore a UK government that brings shame on our country with a Rwanda policy that breaks international laws on human rights and refugee protection. We applaud the PCS Union (Union for Border Force officers) who are taking the government to court. We applaud all those local members of uniformed and voluntary services who do […]
26th May 2022 by Editorial Team
On Sat 21st May, protesters gathered outside the offices of Thanet South MP Craig Mackinlay. Their purpose was to show that the cost of living crisis is deep and dangerous and that it is in fact a cost of greed crisis, caused by the huge bonuses and tax avoidance of big Gas and Oil corporations. […]
14th May 2022 / 26th May 2022 by Editorial Team
Greens volunteer to help Energy Advice charity reach people in need. The charity Groundwork South and their Green Doctors service are recommended by a number of local authorities in Kent and they are non-party-political. They provide a free advice service to those struggling with energy bills. And extra support to those struggling who are on […]
17th April 2022 / 17th April 2022 by Editorial Team
By Cllr Mike Eddy, Deal Town Council The Government’s big idea for stopping asylum seekers (and most are granted asylum) crossing the Channel in small boats is to fly the arrivals to Rwanda. A strange choice. Rwanda is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa and one of the smallest. At 242,749 km2, […]
28th March 2022 / 17th April 2022 by Editorial Team
War has thrown into sharp relief the failures that sensible Green leaders have long been warning of. A sense of fair play has long, long been a British characteristic and the plight of Ukraine, shows how strongly we throughout the continent of Europe want to rally in support of peace for a democratic, independent Ukraine, […]
22nd February 2022 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
Now lockdown is over, and if you are near The Wellcome Collection (183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE) between 24 March and 29 August, there is what sounds an interesting exhibition of artworks and historic artefacts all about plants. As the blurb says “Plants are sensitive, complex and interconnected beings, playing surprisingly active roles in […]
6th December 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
Our Green Party members did some of the key local organising for Climate Friday events
16th October 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
On top of all the problems faced by all university students because of Covid, language students are finding it a massive challenge to get the visas they need to do their compulsory year of study in the EU
17th August 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb, a Green Party member of the House of Lords, has joined the debate about the future of archaeological research and conservation.
23rd July 2021 / 7th August 2021 by Editorial Team
Letter to East Kent Mercury by Cllr Mike Eddy. Elphicke versus Rashford Among all the justified outrage at our current MP’s comments about Marcus Rashford (Mercury, July 14 and 21), readers have focussed on her attack on Mr Rashford. Marcus Rashford was a volunteer helping to deliver food to people in need before he used […]
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19th December 2020 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
The following is a letter to the Press, published by Dover Express (16th Dec 2020): All honest people can see that multiple crises beset us in England and in Dover District. Does the triple whammy of impoverishment caused by Covid, the economic / logistics hit to Britain and Kent of Jan 2021 and the climate and […]
8th November 2020 / 12th March 2022 by Editorial Team
A new on-line petition to double the number of public toilets in Dover town was launched 25th June 2020 by Keith Sansum and Sarah Gleave of Dover and Deal Green Party. The petition calls on the Mayor and Town Clerk of Dover Town Council to work with Dover District Council to put in more toilets. In […]
29th October 2020 / 8th November 2020 by Editorial Team
So finally the penny drops. London Conservative Government cares so little for Dover District that it won’t tell District / County Conservative councillors about the land it plans to commandeer for a border post and lorry park for 1200 HGVs near Whitfield, and a junior minister can only spare 30 mins to stonewall and evade […]
