For our common good and the next generation's
News
3rd November 2018 / 13th April 2020 by Editorial Team
On Friday 2 November, the executive officers of our local party were delighted to welcome Cllr Mike Eddy on board as a fellow Green Party member. We know him to be very principled, knowledgeable and hardworking. Previously he was leader of the Labour opposition on Dover District Council for 10 years. He continues to be […]
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Development
Social housing, that is, homes that people can rent at a fair price, either from public or private owners, is different from affordable housing (a larger category including home ownership for people who can get a mortgage). The amount of social housing has dropped dramatically since the 1980’s when the Conservative government forced councils to […]
Mental Health News
2nd November 2018 / 12th April 2022 by Editorial Team
MUCH more funding should be available for the treatment of mental health, not research. We know what the problems are, and what helps IF it is available, how many health service cuts there’ve been and how harsh austerity policies push more people to the edge. Caseloads are so high and staffing levels so low that […]
Brexit
16th August 2018 by Editorial Team
The Big Question, published in the Dover Express 16 August 2018 NOBODY knows, but Dovorians are practical, savvy people. With neighbours who work on the Port or with Border Force, we are not intolerant or totalitarian. So, we will continue to discuss what is best for us locally and nationally with respect for the different […]
Air Quality Environment News
30th May 2018 by Editorial Team
Environmentalists held a small demonstration in the car park on the proposed new Aldi store in a bid to save nine mature trees. The German chain plans to remove the features to make way for its brand new 1,254 sqm supermarket and 128 space car park on the current Co-op site in Park Street, Deal. […]
Air Quality
28th January 2018 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
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, […]
Live Animal Exports
28th January 2018 by Editorial Team
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Elections
1st June 2017 / 13th April 2020 by Editorial Team
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 […]