Brighton Greens call for immediate action on homelessness
Greens urge Labour Council in Brighton & Hove to get creative on tackling homelessness, ahead of a march for homeless people in Brighton this weekend.
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Greens advance LGBTIQA rights at Spring Conference
Green Party pass five motions improving policy to support members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Intersex, Queer, and Asexual community at their Spring Conference last week.
Greens celebrate work of Brighton learning disability charity
Green councillors joined service users, staff and volunteers of Brighton and Hove ‘Speak Out’ to celebrate its work advocating for adults with learning disabilities in the city last week.
Labour take control of City Council as the largest group
A clean sweep of Labour councillors in troubled Queens Park Ward pushed Labour, three seats ahead of the Conservatives to make them the largest party on the city council at the local election count yesterday, (May 9). In a spectacular reversal of the 2011 results when Greens took control of the city
Green Party launch national LGBTIQ Manifesto in Soho
Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, launched the party’s LGBTIQ Manifesto in Soho today. The manifesto contains pledges to: Review the discriminatory blood ban; introduce LGBTIQ-inclusive sex education; protect LGBTIQ asylum seekers; improve services for trans people and
Christopher Hawtree: Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Hove and Portslade
People ‘enter politics’ through many doors. Always interested by this, Christopher says he was galvanised by the campaign to prevent the imposition of a directly-elected Mayor on Hove and Brighton – and by running a nationally resonant campaign to prevent Hove Library being closed down.
Green leader apologises for candidate’s transgender comments
GREEN PARTY leader Natalie Bennett has apologised for comments made by the Green parliamentary candidate for Cambridge, Dr Rupert Read, about trans* people. In a twitter exchange Dr Read said he found the word cisgender “troubling”, going on to describe trans* women as “a sort of opt-in version of w