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1 November 2021 / 1 November 2021 by North Tyneside Green Party
This year, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, is being hosted by the UK in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November 2021. It will take place against a background of accelerating climate disasters all around the world and it cannot afford to fail. We are calling on global leaders to […]
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29 October 2021 / 29 March 2022 by North Tyneside Green Party
Judy Seymour, a member of North Tyneside Green Party, has written an article for Green World on Universal Basic Income and exploring three alternative systems. In the article, Judy outlines how the use of these systems in cooperation could create an ‘economic model fit for purpose’. The full article can be read here : https://greenworld.org.uk/article/ubi-just-one-tool-box
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25 October 2021 / 8 July 2023 by North Tyneside Green Party
We broadly support the proposal for a ‘permanent, segregated two-way safe space along the seafront between Whitley Bay and Tynemouth’. We are pleased that the project will be ‘largely’ funded centrally by the Department of Transport’s Active Travel Fund with contributions from Sustrans. It is reassuring to have received confirmation from the council that, because […]
13 August 2021 / 13 August 2021 by North Tyneside Green Party
We are delighted to announce that Martin Collins will stand for election in the Camperdown Ward on Thursday 9 September 2021. Martin is an experienced Green Campaigner – having first joined the Ecology Party (the predecessor to the Green Party) in 1978 – working with the North Tyneside Borough Green Party since 2004. Martin says: […]
8 May 2021 / 8 May 2021 by North Tyneside Green Party
We are delighted with the results from Day 2 of the Local Election Results. We have confirmed and strengthened our position as North Tyneside’s third party and we have seen record results around the Borough. We will review the results in full over the coming weeks, to learn and improve on our current position. In […]
7 May 2021 / 7 May 2021 by North Tyneside Green Party
The results from Day 1 are promising for North Tyneside Borough Green Party. We are the third Party in the Borough based on vote share. This follows National Polling, which places the Green Party as the third UK Party. Although it is too early to draw any meaningful conclusions, we can highlight: (i) We held […]
2 May 2021 / 30 April 2021 by North Tyneside Green Party
“Our green spaces are really important to us, for our wellbeing, for fresh air and exercise, for our children to play in, for contact with the natural environment” – Penny Remfry, Green Party candidate for Elected Mayor. “We are lucky in North Tyneside,” Penny says “because we have some lovely parks, some quite recently renovated […]
30 April 2021 / 28 April 2021 by North Tyneside Green Party
Jonathan Bartley: “Having a Green in the room provides a voice for the environment, the climate and social justice, areas we believe other parties are failing to match their rhetoric with meaningful action” The Green Party is expecting to make significant gains across the country in the local elections next month, as it stands a […]
29 April 2021 / 30 April 2021 by North Tyneside Green Party
“We send 55% of our rubbish to be incinerated. That’s disgraceful,” says Penny Remfry, Green Party candidate for Elected Mayor in North Tyneside. “We should be recycling much more than the measly 35% we do at present.” In the latest copy of the North Tyneside Council’s magazine [1], the Council outlines what happens to our […]
28 April 2021 / 23 April 2021 by North Tyneside Green Party
“Bring back Life-Long Learning” says Penny Remfry, Green Party candidate for Elected Mayor. North Tyneside used to have a lively adult education sector, but it has been decimated by government cuts and reduced to a focus on qualifications for employment only. Penny says: “There was a wide range of classes people could go to, from […]