A Greenwich Green councillor has defended his career in the oil and gas industry — insisting his work over the past decade has been focused on the transition to renewable energy. Lakshan Saldin joined the Green Party in January after resigning from the Labour Party last September, and is standing for his new party in […]
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Greens sorry after falsely accusing Shooters Hill church of selling woodland to developers
Update: In September 2022, Christ Church Shooters Hill announced plans to build flats and a new community hall. Read on for the story as it was in December 2020. Green Party activists in Greenwich have apologised after falsely claiming that a church in Shooters Hill was planning to sell woodland for development. The Greens caused […]
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Greenwich Greens mourn party co-founder Dave Sharman
Tributes have been paid to Dave Sharman, the co-founder of the Greenwich Green Party, who died last week aged 83. A devoted Quaker, Sharman co-founded the Greenwich branch of the party with colleague Philip Connolly in 1994. Until 2014 he regularly stood in council elections, including the 2010 election where he was joined by 853 […]
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‘Why you should vote Green in Greenwich on 3 May’
Londoners go to the polls on Thursday 3 May to elect their local councils. In the first of a special series of articles from party representatives, local Green Party co-ordinator DAN GARRUN outlines what his party has to offer the people of Greenwich. In this election, the Green Party is standing on a platform of […]
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Greenwich councillor drops Green Party police threat over cruise terminal leaflet
A Greenwich councillor has pulled back from a threat to report the local Green Party to police after it published a newsletter explaining how Labour representatives supported the controversial Enderby Wharf cruise liner terminal. Peninsula councillor Stephen Brain saw red after the Greens condemned his party’s record on pollution, noting that “in 2012, Labour councillors […]
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Election aftermath: What next for politics in Greenwich?
As the dust settles after the general election, Matt Hartley has landed his prize for boosting the Tory vote in Greenwich & Woolwich – he’s been named the new Conservative leader on Greenwich Council. The 29-year-old succeeds Spencer Drury, whose dry barbs at the council’s Labour leadership have become a feature of life at Woolwich […]
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Greens rally round ‘no-show’ Greenwich & Woolwich candidate
Greenwich’s Green Party has defended its Greenwich & Woolwich candidate Abbey Akinoshun after he missed a series of election hustings in the constituency. Akinoshun was absent for the final four hustings of the campaign, with the party supplying substitute speakers or not represented. The 50-year-old’s absence had sparked rumours the party was unhappy with its […]
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Will Ukip help Labour tighten its hold on Greenwich?
One thing’s clear about this Thursday’s council elections – Labour will gallop to victory again. It’s 50 years since the first elections for the London Borough of Greenwich, and Labour has won all but one poll, in 1968, when a stunning London-wide landslide saw it fall to the Conservatives. Business as usual resumed in 1971, […]
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