Latest News
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:
Heatwave Warnings And Cost Of Living Crisis: Reality Bites Showing We Need Change
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 […]
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Greens fighting to save East Kent bus services: push KCC Conservative majority group to re-think.
From Stourmouth to Elvington to Kingsdown to Eastry, all across Dover district and East Kent there is anger and deep concern about the problems that bus cuts will cause in the autumn. Since February 2022, immediately after the budget cut was voted through by the Conservative majority group at KCC, local Green Party campaigners have […]
Drought in East Kent and Water Quality
Water is such an important part of our lives. There have been prolonged shortages of rainfall in historic times, notably 1890-1909, 1990-1992 and more recently 1995-1997. The drought in 1995 triggered many drought mitigation, planning and infrastructure reactions prompted by the adverse economic effects. The Environment Agency has described the Dover and Folkestone regions as […]
Our 10 Point Plan for Environmentally Sustainable Housing
In March 2021, Dover and Deal Green Party put in a comprehensive 15 page response to the new local plan, suggesting a number of ways that it could become a Local Plan better able to resolve social injustices, better able to protect and restore a depleted natural environment, and become a Plan with genuine ‘climate […]
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Dover & Deal Greens say NO to shameful, immoral Rwanda flights policy.
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 […]
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‘Cost of greed crisis, not cost of living crisis’, say protestors in Broadstairs.
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. […]
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Energy Bill Advice Sessions
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 […]
Greens Welcome Port Of Dover Commitment to Carbon Zero by 2030
Letter to Dover local press. 8 May 2022 We welcome the good news from Port of Dover and Doug Bannister about their plan for our port to be Carbon Net Zero by 2030. The article in Dover Express on 5 May said plans include the sourcing of alternative fuels, utilization of renewable energy sources, port […]
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Trees and yet more trees
by Cllr Mike Eddy, Deal Town Council You know that the messages about the need for more trees must be getting through, when the Saturday Guardian (16 April 2022) has 2 pages on “the life-changing magic of planting trees” in its Lifestyle section. And in the list of 5 things you can do to help, […]
Rwanda or UK
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, […]
Yet another weekend of gridlock and danger for Dover and surounding villages.
Open Letter to Kent press: 10 April 2022 Yet another weekend of gridlock and danger for Dover and surounding villages. Danger because emergency vehicles can’t get about, and danger to local livelihoods and businesses Gridlock and danger because of a combination of predictable problems that Conservatives in power in London, at KCC and at DDC […]
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War in Europe highlights the need for sensible Green policies & democratic accountability
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, […]
