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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:
Any Future for the Past under Conservatives?
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. […]
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Climate Crisis and Extreme Weather Events on our Doorstep.
Text of letter published in local press 29-July 2021 (before a weekend of downpours caused roads to flood in our own towns) We see flood catastrophes half day’s coach / train trip from East Kent, places visited by many of us for Christmas markets over the years; almost 200 humans and many animals drowned. Floods […]
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Concern that reshuffled DDC Conservative Cabinet are side-lining climate commitments
There’s been quite a re-shuffle at Dover District Council, presented to full council on Wed 21 July 2021. Some of the Conservative Cabinet changes seem to downplay the work to adapt to, and mitigate, the fast-approaching Climate Crisis. The cross party DDC Climate Change Working Group was ended 2 June 2021 after 18 months of […]
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DDC Sandwich by-election – Sorry we can’t stand
Thank you to those who encouraged us to try and get a Green voice on DDC, and to stand a candidate in the DDC Sandwich by-election on 19th August 2021, caused by the resignation of MJ Holloway, a Conservative cllr. We wanted to, but our small team of community activists, leafleters and canvassers are exhausted in […]
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By criticising Marcus Rashford, Natalie Elphicke is criticising all volunteers.
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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Two badly located Dover Border clearance sites will mean double trouble
The 2/7 press release from the Kent and Dover Conservatives in power + Ms Elphicke MP about 2 clearance / port health facilities is full of fantastic adjectives in a cynical, deceptive press release but it cannot hide the truth. Many local parish councillors on local town and parish councils, senior people at the Port […]
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Results of the County and local elections of 2021 in Dover District.
In all of the five KCC divisionsin Dover district, your local Green party polled a strong third place, the best results we’ve ever had. We THANK most sincerely all those who entrusted their vote to our candidates. We polled: 18% in Dover North (Sarah G.) 11% in Sandwich and villages (Abi S.) 10% in Deal […]
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5 reasons to vote Green in KCC elections
We pledge to work hard for: Effective plans to work together with communities and really make Kent net zero carbon by 2030, (see note below) Development of safer, more active travel for young and old, car-users and non-car users, alike; with integrated active private/public transport solutions, smarter not pricier. Investment in Green New Deal […]
Call for investment in Climate-friendly jobs in Dover District. Join us Sat 24th April.
Anyone of any party or none is invited to join us to demonstrate at Whitfield , near Tesco’s roundabout, distanced and masked and taking exercise with notices saying Invest In Green New Deal Now. The cross-party group Green New Deal -UK has called a day of action on Sat 24th April. And with our Sarah […]
Protecting the Mongeham countryside from airstrip.
Dover and Deal Green Party was contacted by residents of Mongeham on Sun 18th April about a plan to install an airstrip on farmland between Mongeham and Northbourne. We looked into it and could see how the claims that this was a project for zero carbon electric planes was a twist on the real story. […]
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Dover and Guston need guarantees about IBF from KCC, not vague promises.
Sarah Gleave, Green Party KCC candidate in Dover North (which includes Guston), says, “Yes, we have to have a Dover IBF, but we local Dovorians also know the IBF (and the jobs that go with it) would be better located on a safer site than Whitfield Retail Park. Because nobody in East Kent should have […]
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Safer travel; Active travel for Dover District, say Greens
A Manifesto for safer, more active travel in the Dover District from Kent County Council 2021 candidates of Dover and Deal Green Party. Overview Dover District is uniquely vulnerable to road safety and air pollution problems due to the port. We include in this manifesto ways we would work to address these problems. We believe that […]
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