Gloucestershire County Council Local News
19 September 2024 / 19 September 2024 by Chris White
In Nov ’23, your Green Councillor proposed a motion to full council to help veterans by providing free bus travel. The motion was passed and officers agreed to look into the logistics. Following this, our Green County Councillor group secured a £100, 000 budget amendment to fund the scheme, (in Feb ’24). The outcome is […]
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4 July 2024 / 4 July 2024 by Chris White
30 June 2024 / 30 June 2024 by Chris White
BBC report from the Hustings
29 June 2024 / 30 June 2024 by Chris White
Gloucestershire Live picked up one of the questions around Pensions where Cate mentioned the injustice towards Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) women and poverty in the UK. The Article
29 June 2024 / 29 June 2024 by Chris White
Every single vote for the Green Party is converted into ‘short money’ this has to be paid to smaller parties to fund elected member’s offices, (so previously, if you voted Green in 2010, 2015, 2017, 2019 your vote helped to fund Caroline Lucas’s staff). Some of our Green candidates will be elected. They will […]
28 June 2024 / 29 June 2024 by Chris White
Cate Cody – Green Party, David Edgar – Christians Peoples Alliance, Laurence Robertson – Conservative, Cameron Thomas – Liberal Democrat Excellent turnout for the hustings over the last couple of weeks. I attended the Friends of the Earth on Monday, the Abbey on Tuesday as well as Tewkesbury School on Thursday. An exceptional range of […]
27 June 2024 / 27 June 2024 by Chris White
M5 Junction 9
26 June 2024 / 26 June 2024 by Chris White
The Guardian reports on the planned action at the River Wye with the headline: Green Party calls for ‘drastic change’ to water and sewage infrastructure, nationalisation. Ellie Chowns is quoted: “We are here both to demand a water protection zone around the River Wye and to put forward a bold vision for how we can […]
23 June 2024 / 26 June 2024 by Chris White
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