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This is the general news page for the Dover & Deal Green Party. We campaign very actively in rural parishes and in towns, and at district level. If you wish to read news about work of the Green councillors on your town council please visit the respective page:

By Editorial Team | 28th January 2018

In November 2017, our Dover and Deal Green Party campaigners put up air quality monitors outside four primary schools in Deal and five primary schools in Dover. Then they took the nitrogen dioxide results to the professionals at Dover District Council (DDC). “We are very aware that deaths attributable to air pollution in the UK, […]

What does Brexit mean for live animal exports?

By Editorial Team | 28th January 2018

Written by Keith Taylor, Green Party MEP, Autumn 2017 Live exports are barbaric; treating beautiful and sentient animals as ‘goods’ no different from a bottle of whiskey or bar of chocolate. Greens want to see it banned outright. “Animals exported live for slaughter and breeding often travel great distances, for days at a time, in […]

Join us and stand against Live Animal Transport

By Editorial Team | 28th January 2018

There is a EU-wide campaign of the Euro Group for Animals on www.stopthetrucks.eu. The petition already has over 1 million signatures across Europe, and is officially supported by Austria, Denmark, German and the Netherlands. Sign the UK petition now: the UK government will debate it on 28 February 2018. Recent campaigning by Greens on this issue our […]

Let’s work together on Clean Air

By Editorial Team | 28th January 2018

Four sites in Dover scored 8 out of 10 for bad air quality in a BBC pollution warning last July. To help improve the situation, can you help us raise £200 to pay for 10 NO2 air monitors for Dover and Deal, and some particulate matter ones? We spoke to Dover District Council back in […]

Please don’t vote for cruel, callous, chaotic extremist Conservatives

By Editorial Team | 1st June 2017

Text of letter sent in to East Kent Mercury: An irresponsible Conservative government must not be given more power at Westminster in June; our rich country is already the most unequal on this continent. Beccy and her election agent, Sarah went with an East Kent Greenpeace delegation to the Paris Climate Summit in December 2015 […]

We could turn Dover district Green

By Editorial Team | 19th April 2017

For the first time, everyone in Dover district will have a chance to vote Green Party in the KCC ELECTIONS on 4 May 2017. Currently in Dover District, there are no Green Party councillors at Town, District or County level. We think it is time to change that. Our five candidates Sandwich, Eastry and villages […]

Hooray!

By Editorial Team | 19th April 2017

Hooray, a chance for the Dover constituency to rid itself of that false, deluding young man. The right Charlie who became our MP in 2010. The majority didn’t vote for him in 2010 or 2015. Over 28,000 didn’t vote for him and around 22,000 did. Most of us are less than keen on the far-right […]

Suggestions to prevent ‘stack’

By Editorial Team | 9th January 2017

Scenic Dover deserves infrastructure money much more than London – so Westminster should spend London Green Bridge money here. We Greens called for a shallow greened-over tunnel from A20 Western Heights / Aycliffe to Eastern docks for freight last year- like the A3 Hindhead tunnel or the M25 Bell common. Air pollution could be taken […]

Progressive Alliance; the alternative to destructive conservatives post referendum ?

By Editorial Team | 9th January 2017

Natalie Bennett our Green Party star who was national leader 2012 –16 came to speak in Deal on 21 November 2016 on this subject, at the Astor Community Theatre. There needs to be real constructive opposition and Caroline Lucas reached out to others in the Labour and Lib dem parties in July to suggest a […]

Farthingloe and Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty high court decision

By Editorial Team | 5th October 2016

Dover District Council shouldn’t have okayed the Western Heights and Farthingloe development, which we objected to. […]

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