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Green Party — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:17:25 +0100

Green Party Candidate trapped behind police lines on election day

Green Party — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:35:57 +0100

Green Party Candidate trapped behind police lines on election day.

"We came and wanted to let all the heads of the conference hear our messages. We wanted them to hear what we had to say and we wanted London and the world to hear," said Paul from inside a police kettle.

A Green Party candidate standing in the Peterborough City Council elections today is currently unsure whether or he will be able to cast his own vote. Paul Furnborough, 23, who works as a conservation officer is standing for the Greens in East Ward. Today he is attending the Big Six Energy Bash, a campaign by the Climate Justice Collective. They have taken to the streets in London in an attempt "to block the energy monopoly going on behind closed doors at the UK Energy Summit."

"Unfortunately we are stuck in a ‘kettle’ because police believe it will prevent a breach of the peace. Officers don't know when we will be let out, so we may be here indefinitely. I am hoping to get back up to Peterborough to cast my vote. We are trapped in here against our will. It is completely peaceful: in fact it is very boring, although there is a bit of singing and dancing going on."

The Climate Justice campaign alleges that: "Companies from the Big Six including EDF, Npower, EON and Scottish Power, as well as oil giants like Shell and BP are conspiring with government to line their pockets at the cost of climate crisis and millions of people locked in fuel poverty. The Big Six energy companies are an obstacle to a democratic energy system that could keep the sea levels down and get the heating on in fuel poverty homes. We want a socialised grid not a corporate monopoly – the UK Energy Summit cannot go ahead!"

Mr Furnborough’s Election Agent, Ashley Baxter, comments, “It’s a bit of a nuisance for Paul to be trapped in a police cordon on election day, but he is part of a peaceful demonstration against the twin problems of climate change and corporate greed. Paul should feel proud that he is using the democratic process to best effect via both the electoral system and lawful protest.

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2012/05/16:15

Deepings Parish Councils' Annual General Meetings

Green Party — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:10:39 +0100

Next week, Councils in the Deepings will be holding their statutory Annual Meetings.

Deeping St James Parish Council will be hosting its event in the new Deeping School Conference Centre, Park Road on Tuesday May 8th at 7pm.

The meeting, which is open to the public, will include a report back from local scouts who attended an International Jamboree in Sweden last year, partly thanks to funding from the Parish Council. The evening will also include presentations of ‘Making a Difference Awards’ to local people and organisations who have made an outstanding contribution to village life. During the event at least ten local community organisations are expected to inform residents on recent projects. There will also be an update regarding progress towards the village’s entry to Britain in Bloom which this year includes the almost surreptitious planting at the bases of roadsigns around the village.

The equivalent event in Market Deeping will take place at the Town Hall at 7pm the following day, Wednesday May 9th.

This meeting will provide an opportunity for the general public to ask questions of their Councillors.

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Ashley Baxter is a Market Deeping Town Councillor and a Deeping St James Parish Councillor.

Published and distributed by, for and on behalf of Ashley Baxter, 11 Kesteven Close, Deeping St James, Lincs PE6 8JW 2012/05/02 21:00

Orchard development halted

Green Party — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:46:15 +0100

After almost an hour of debate last Tuesday (May 1st), the Development Control Committee of South Kesteven District Council decided to defer a decision regarding planning permission for 18 houses on the site of a former orchard in Deeping St James.

The land had originally been granted outline permission for a rugby club pavilion and an arts centre. However, Larkfleet Homes submitted a plan for 18 more homes on the site originally allocated to the rugby club. At the Development Control committee Councillors voted against the recommendations of Planning Officers and the Committee Chair because they were concerned about accessibility to the site.

Deeping St James Parish Councillor, Ashley Baxter, who spoke at the meeting, stated “I was surprised and delighted that the District Council have deferred the decision. It gives Larkfleet an opportunity to rethink the scheme and to improve access to the site for pedestrians, cyclists and indeed motor vehicles. I accept the Deepings area needs more affordable housing, but this scheme was originally presented as having benefits to the whole community. As I expected, it has been exposed as a crafty way of trying to build lots of houses on a greenfield site. If these 18 houses are approved, the proposed community arts centre will become an impossible project and yet more houses will be built in its place.”

Incidentally, thanks to negotiations with Deeping St James Parish Council and the Deepings School, the rugby club is now able to stay on its existing site.

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Ashley Baxter is a Market Deeping Town Councillor and a Deeping St James Parish Councillor.

Published and distributed by, for and on behalf of Ashley Baxter, 11 Kesteven Close, Deeping St James, Lincs PE6 8JW 2012/05/02 21:00

Peterborough candidates respond jointly to Make Your Vote Count campaign

Green Party — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:53:03 +0100

In the run up to the May local elections Green Party candidates standing in Peterborough were asked by the Public and Commercial Services Union whether or not they could make the following pledges.

1. I pledge to support PCS campaigns against public service job cuts and to ensure quality public services are delivered to those in need.

2. I pledge to support the PCS campaign for fair pay and a living wage for workers.

3. I pledge to protect quality public services and work alongside PCS, community organisations and other trade unions to ensure that no more public services are privatised, outsourced or mutualised.

4. I pledge to support the PCS campaign for fair pensions for all; including calling on the government to protect public sector pensions, ensure the state pension keeps in line with inflation, that the government addresses pensioner poverty and that companies are prevailed upon to ensure they fulfil their pension obligations to staff.

They responded as follows: (responses are in bold type).

1. We pledge to support PCS campaigns against public service job cuts and to ensure quality public services are delivered to those in need.

We support PCS locally and nationally in its opposition to job cuts in the public sector. We accept that there is a need, sometimes an overwhelming need for good quality public services. We understand that those in most need are also likely to require help and support in accessing the services they depend upon. And we also understand that people in receipt of services can be amongst the least likely to be able to advocate for themselves or to fight for services which are withdrawn.

2. We pledge to support the PCS campaign for fair pay and a living wage for workers.

We are delighted that PCS is campaigning for a living wage, which takes into account the costs of living decently and which would lift a huge number of people out of poverty at relatively low cost overall. We support them wholeheartedly in this campaign.

Nationally the Green Party has advocated and campaigned for a ratio for top pay of 10 times the pay of the lowest paid person in any one organisation. Pay ratios are now wildly out of proportion and the consequences of massive and escalating inequality are highly undesirable. We support PCS in working to address this fundamental injustice. The income gap isn’t just about terms and conditions in the workplace, it is also creates major social problems outside it.

Locally we are aware that Peterborough has frequently promoted itself to businesses and investors as an area with low wage costs. Peterborough and the rural areas which surround it must start viewing decent terms and conditions for all employees, including agency, casual and part time workers, as absolutely crucial to its future happiness and prosperity and part and parcel of any genuinely sustainable future.

3. We pledge to protect quality public services and work alongside PCS, community organisations and other trade unions to ensure that no more public services are privatised, outsourced or mutualised.

The Green Party has consistently worked to prevent and oppose privatisation of public services at national and European level. We haven’t seen any evidence to support the belief that private provision guarantees quality or lower costs. In Peterborough we have seen a number of services provided via the private sector. We have seen this achieve increased costs, particularly in the way our new hospital building has been financed. We have noted the vulnerability of the private provider to cuts and also to market pressures. We don’t believe that privatising essential services improves them. We have no evidence that services are better, nor is the quality of life improved for the private provider, the worker or the service user.

4. We pledge to support the PCS campaign for fair pensions for all; including calling on the government to protect public sector pensions, ensure the state pension keeps in line with inflation, that the government addresses pensioner poverty and that companies are prevailed upon to ensure they fulfill their pension obligations to staff.

Basically we think that pensioners now face such a mess on retirement that the best thing to do would be to replace a system which condemns so many people to poverty with an entirely new system providing a decent income universally and in a non discriminatory way. Detail on Green Party national policy on pensions and how we think it could be funded can be found here.

Meanwhile the situation of pensioners in the UK remains a scandal and is getting rapidly worse in the face of escalating fuel and living costs. People on the lowest incomes remain subject to income tax, many paying more in percentage terms than some of the UK’s highest earners. We applaud PCS for excellent work in defending pensioners.

The state pension should provide a basic decent income for all retired people. It is shameful and outrageous that one of the richest countries in the world cannot organise itself to keep old folk both warm and well fed and that so many are forced to choose between the two. We believe that a basic state pension should at least achieve this basic level of decency. It should also include something for discretionary spending so that the poorest pensioners can have a bit of dignity back. Pensioners should be able to afford to get out and about to enjoy an active and healthy retirement.

It is not justifiable that people in work are being made to pay more into their pension plans for the same pension. And it makes no sense that people who are ready and happy to retire are being told that their retirement age must go up. At a time of high unemployment people who want to retire should be allowed to do so. As Greens we believe that pension arrangements form part of terms and conditions of work and as such should be subject to negotiated agreement between employer and employee.

It used to be that the state encouraged investment into pensions: many people still do not have private pensions, employer or employee contribution pensions or a stakeholder or a self invested pension. But if pension arrangements are seen as vulnerable to raids, one sided revision or default it will become even harder to persuade people that pensions are worth investing in.

On this occasion we decided on a joint response which was signed on the 24th April 2012 20:00 by all five of the candidates standing in the Peterborough local elections on 3rd May.

Please find the list of candidates standing for the Green Party here.

Responses received by Peterborough election candidates can be found here.

The Make Your Vote Count is here.

27 April 2012

Fiona Radic interviewed by Paul Stainton on BBC Breakfast Show

Green Party — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:32:53 +0100

Fiona Radic spoke to Paul Stainton on the BBC's Peterborough Breakfast Show on 26th April about the prospects for the Green Party in Peterborough next week and in the longer term. She describes how voters respond differently and more positively in local than in general elections, and the nature of the support which exists for the Green Party and for sustainable politics in Peterborough.

12/04/26 interview Fiona Radic by Fiona Radic

Please find the list of candidates standing for the Green Party here.

27 April 2012

May 3rd 2012 Election Candidates

Green Party — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Please find the list of candidates standing for the Green Party here.

10 April 2012

Make the Difference

Green Party — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:02:12 +0100

.... "Imagine a city where all new houses have to be energy efficient. Where there's help to insulate those that aren't. So that our heating bills come down. Imagine if rents were affordable so that whether you're on or off the property ladder you can still have a secure home. Imagine a high street where planners give small shop keepers a chance. .."

Peterborough's Political Environment

Green Party — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:35:20 +0000

Peterborough in Transition members along with local Green Party supporters are invited to a special discussion Green Party event about Peterborough and its politics.

We will be looking at the party political culture of the city of Peterborough and what effect it has on residents and activists and the nature of community in the city.

The event is by invitation only. If you would like an invitation but have not yet received one directly from us, please make contact with Shane Alexander or Fiona Radic.

Candidates Wanted

Green Party — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:55:47 +0000

Peterborough & Fenland Green Party are looking for candidates wishing to stand for local election on 3rd May 2012.

If you want to be sure that you and your neighbours can vote Green, or if you want to build Green Party activity in your area, somebody at some point needs to stand for election. That moment could be now. That somebody could be you. Or it might be that you know another somebody. In which case you can always recommend that person to us.

In order to secure a Green Party nomination candidates need to be eligible to stand and to be both able and willing to stand for election.

Candidates are expected to support the aims and general principles of the Green Party, but candidates are not required to be active within the party.

Peterborough & Fenland Green Party wishes to identify potential candidates who

care enough about the communities they live in to want to speak out for them.

want to work towards a more sustainable society.

If you would like your name to be added to our list of potential candidates please send us a brief email. Tell us a little about yourself or the person you are recommending and please include your contact details.

The Power of Community - click here for Trailer

Green Party — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:04:55 +0000

The Power of Community will be screened at 6pm at The Green Backyard on Saturday 17th December.

This is one of a series of Peterborough in Transition events.

Contact Peterborough in Transition

Directions to The Green Backyard

Please click here to sign the 20's Plenty for Peterborough campaign petition

Green Party — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:10:09 +0000

Greens are pleased that the 20's Plenty for Peterborough campaign has begun to cross party lines.

It is good that the campaign is attracting the interest and support of some of the city's elected councillors.

At the moment campaigners are asking residents and people who work in the city to sign a 20's Plenty for Peterborough petition.

Please sign the petition. You can do this online.

Once you have signed, please have a look on the website to see what else you might be able to do to help the campaign.

When the Green Party in Peterborough made this its policy priority in 2007, there were only two million people in the UK enjoying 20mph total speed limits. There are now over seven million. It is more than time for Peterborough residents to join them.

Not sure? Watch No Need for Speed: 20's Plenty for Us on Youtube.

Click here to send a comment to the campaign.

High Court dismisses application for judicial review of Secretary of State’s nuclear waste dump decision

Green Party — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:38:48 +0000

As Secretary of State Mr Pickles had granted planning permission for the highly controversial dumping of low level radioactive waste in Northamptonshire. This afternoon the application for judicial review of this decision was dismissed by HHJ Stewart QC at the Royal Courts of Justice.
A verbal application to appeal was rejected.
The court was then told that Bowen-West would apply for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal in writing.
Augean agreed not to implement their planning permission for four weeks from Monday the 7th November 2011.

For background and information about how to help the campaign to stop nuclear waste dumping:
12/7/2011 http://www.greenparty.org.uk/localsites/peterborough/news/nuclear-waste-dump-debate.html

further information is here:
16/4/2011 http://www.greenparty.org.uk/localsites/peterborough/news/nuclear-waste-dumping-petition.html
07/02/2010 http://www.greenparty.org.uk/localsites/peterborough/news/2010-07-02-NuclearWaste.html

Green Party Councillor goes to Westminster to challenge MP over Debt

Green Party — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Green Party Councillor goes to Westminster to challenge MP over Debt

A local Green Party Councillor has travelled to London to urge his local MP, Rt Hon. John Hayes, to support an investigation of the some of the debts owed to the UK government by fledgling democracies . Ashley Baxter decided to make the trip, with his 10 year-old daughter Rosemary, after hearing that the Department for Business was failing to reveal details about controversial loans to dictators.

Mr Baxter attended a briefing organised by the Jubilee Debt Campaign with around a hundred other activists from around the country on Monday 31st October before going to Westminster to meet John Hayes in his Parliamentary Office.
Mr Baxter says “I am grateful to John Hayes for making the time to meet me about important issues concerning the UK’s Export Credit Guarantee Department . This is a British institution which has lent millions to overseas dictators including Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. Despite the fall of Mubarak, Egypt owes more than £100m. Some of this money was borrowed in order to purchase arms which were used to enforce oppression and injustice.”
The ECGD claim they do not even know what some of the loans were for, so effectively they are asking the new Egyptian Government to repay a former dictators loan without being able to say why the money was originally lent in the first place. Mr Baxter therefore asked John Hayes to support calls for an audit of the Egyptian debt, even if it reflects badly on previous British Foreign Policy. He also asked that measures be introduced to restrict government support for arms sales to dictatorships and real efforts be made to concentrate future ECGD loans onto environmentally sustainable and socially useful exports.”
Mr Baxter continues “I was encouraged by Mr Hayes response, especially when he agreed to raise the issues with his Cabinet colleagues Ed Davey and Vince Cable. Mr Hayes also appears to share my belief that there should be a strong ethical dimension to Foreign Policy. Although our meeting was quite short and was interrupted at one point by the Division bell, John Hayes was courteous as ever and went to some trouble to ensure my daughter Rosemary was able to see Parliament at work.”
Anyone wishing to know more about the Jubilee Debt Campaign can phone Ashley Baxter on 01778 344070 or visit www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/

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For more information about the Parliamentary Visit please contact Ashley Baxter, 01778 344070 or 07799 077090. Mr Baxter is both a Market Deeping Town Councillor and a Deeping St James Parish Councillor.
For more information about the ECGD and the Jubilee Debt Campaign, please visit http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/
Rt Hon. John Hayes is the MP for South Holland and the Deepings. Unfortunately due to pressures on his time and security rules at Westminster he was unable to have his photo taken on the day. However, photographs of Ashley and Rosemary Baxter can be requested.

Published and distributed by, for and on behalf of Ashley Baxter, South Lincolnshire Green Party, 11 Kesteven Close, Deeping St James, Lincs PE6 8JW 2011/11/01 15:00

Major cycling and pedestrian obstacle cleared away at last

Green Party — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:15:59 +0000

Local Greens are delighted that the Henry Penn Walk is open at last. The walk was fenced off until this weekend, when it finally opened. Cyclists and walkers can now follow the north bank of the river Nene without having to go out of their way into the back of Rivergate. The walk itself is small, but it forms part of a key route along the north bank. It is excellent that this important route along the river Nene has been unblocked at last.
Congratulations are due to the developer GKL Group and to Peterborough City Council for finally resolving a wrangle which for years left a pointless eyesore in the middle of the city.
The obstacle was not only unattractive: it was also an embarrassment to Peterborough to have a major sustainable transport route (Wansford to Whittlesey) blocked off. Peterborough is rightly proud of its excellent sustainable transport infrastructure. Greens are hopeful that this success bodes well for sorting out some of the other cycling obstacles which remain in the city centre.
Peterborough & Fenland Green Party congratulates all who helped look after and campaign for Henry Penn Walk including David Jost, Peterborough Civic Society, Michael Lee (who campaigned to retain Henry Penn’s name) and some excellent and sustained coverage by the Peterborough Evening Telegraph.

News release 2011/11/01 11:45

South Kesteven Councillors deny money to communities

Green Party — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:15:33 +0100

South Kesteven Councillors deny money to communities

South Kesteven Councillors have failed to pass on the benefits of a VAT windfall of almost £1m, despite promising to do so, according to South Lincolnshire Green Party.

Early in 2010 South Kesteven District Council (SKDC) received a payment £825,325 in respect of a backdated VAT claim. Councillors and Officers agreed to establish a community fund of £425,000 to support business and recreational facilities. Members were to bring forward proposals for effective use of the funds in their areas and Council Officers would co-ordinate proposals across the South Kesteven area. It was specifically stated at the time that the process would not ask for Parish Councils to make bids to the community fund.

A recent investigation by Ashley Baxter of South Lincolnshire Green Party has uncovered that:

• Less than 10% of the money has actually been allocated to projects as intended.(£39,420)

• Councillors only brought forward six proposals between them,

• Only three of these were approved, the other three being deemed ineligible.

• The remaining £400,000 has been transferred into the Council’s general reserves

(and therefore unavailable for tactical deployment to one-off projects).

Cllr Baxter today expressed outrage that the money has not been put to better use “In June last year SKDC were parading this windfall as an antidote to the national Tory cuts and speculating that the money could be used to promote all manner of projects to promote community and economy. Now it transpires that our District Councillors were either too lazy, too unimaginative or too mean to propose projects which could have helped residents locally.”

Cllr Baxter serves on both Market Deeping Town Council and Deeping St James Parish Council. Deeping St James has so far benefitted most from the community fund with two successful projects in the area, including improvements to play equipment (see picture).

For more information contact Ashley Baxter on 01778 344070 or 07799 077090

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Minutes of SKDC Full Council 17th June 2010 (item 28)

SKDC Press Release regarding the windfall

Minutes of Deeping Local Forum July 2010 (item 41)

Cllr Ashley Baxter

South Lincolnshire Green Party

01778 344070

07799 077090

Press 27/10/2011 09:16 for immediate release

Published and distributed by, for and on behalf of Ashley Baxter, South Lincolnshire Green Party, 11 Kesteven Close, Deeping St James, Lincs PE6 8JW

Speaking up for cyclists in city centre

Green Party — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:30:14 +0100

Cycling on the pavements is a problem in Peterborough.

However the attacks in your pages on “reckless cyclists” and cyclists “who flout cycling laws” will not solve it. Cyclists are given a hard time in your pages, but we could elevate the debate a little above the Punch and Judy level. I would like to ask your readers to consider what the problem actually is and to suggest how it might be resolved in a constructive manner.

Cyclists can be guilty of bad and illegal behaviours but they do a tiny fraction of the damage to people and roads compared with drivers of cars and lorries and cyclists are far more likely to be hurt than to cause damage in an accident.

It is odd, therefore, that they attract the opprobrium they do in Peterborough, a city which suffers far more than its fair share of road accidents. Perhaps some of the passion arises from fear of hurting a cyclist: all too easy when cyclists travel at speed on pavements.

However if you want to change an unwanted behaviour you need a strategy for getting the behaviour you do want. That might mean listening to cyclists and trying to work out why they are where they are and where they want to be and where (the city) wants them to go.

A key element in any strategy for Peterborough would have to include good cycle routes into and through the city centre. At the moment we have a superbly cycle permeable city with a massive irritating blockage in the middle. The town hall has over the years designed itself into a prime position bang in the middle of the blockage.

Bridge Street is rightly seen as the worst obstacle to cycling in the city centre and has acquired emblematic status as such. But there are other obstacles which push cyclists towards Bridge Street. All parallel routes to Bridge Street are problematic. Bourges Boulevard is highly inhospitable and Bishops Road is far from ideal. Queensgate is impermeable by bicycle and by both cyclist and pedestrian at night. Why should cyclists respect this situation?

If cyclists are pushed into merely coping, that is exactly what they will do.

Consider a real example which will occur when the Cowgate contra-flow is banned and the cyclist is directed further away from the city centre to Priestgate. A girl arrives at Peterborough station at night. She arrives in the city centre, having cycled warily but quickly through the underpass to emerge at Cowgate. Does she then get off and walk, (knowing that at night walking is more dangerous than riding), or does she take the “correct route” (knowing it will be deserted), or does she “flout” the rules and ride where she knows she is safest and both CCTV and street lighting are on? Which route is “reckless” for her? Why should police enforce a rule which puts a vulnerable person in any greater danger? In my opinion councils shouldn’t be making them up and police and CCTV should be working to protect us.

The council could attempt to command the respect of the cycling community and demonstrate that it listens to the views of cyclists. The Cowgate decision, if it goes through, suggests it does neither.

Fiona Radic, Peterborough & Fenland Green Party

letter published in Peterborough Evening News on 8 October 2011

http://bit.ly/rpoVdq to see comments thread at Peterborough Evening Telegraph online

Greens welcome Debate on Nuclear Waste

Green Party — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:58:56 +0100

Following the decision of the Secretary of State to allow the dumping of low level radioactive waste near King’s Cliffe, campaigners recently decided to mount a legal challenge through the courts. [ii]

Fiona Radić, Coordinator of the Peterborough & Fenland Green Party, said

“Local Democracy in Action is now involved. We have to look at the way we do democracy when a Secretary of State for the Department of Communities and Local Government apparently thinks it a good idea to brush aside a series of 90% plus majority votes.

Peterborough for Responsible Waste Management [iii] and King’s Cliffe Waste Watchers, [iv] both of them voluntary, community based waste groups, have worked hard to oppose the proposal to dump nuclear waste near King’s Cliffe. These groups have helped to build understanding and public awareness of the planning issues and processes and that takes really hard work which deserves recognition and applause.

Of course it is wrong when a sensitive limestone environment, also a source of drinking water for Peterborough and the fens, is threatened with nuclear waste dumping, using previously untested containment “methods”. Nobody who has looked into it at all doubts that. Here the Green Party is at one with Peterborough, which is keen to claim “Environment Capital” status. Peterborough City Council, to its credit, recommended rejection of the proposal during the planning process.

There are also huge questions if this kind of waste is to be shifted in bags over long distances across the national road network (residents living along routes not even having been told yet). And whether or not in this area, once “low level” waste has been accepted, whether “intermediate level” radioactive waste will be next…..”

Dr. Rupert Read, Co-ordinator of Eastern England Green Party, said

"There is no solution in sight to the appalling problem of nuclear waste, a problem increasingly on all of our minds after the catastrophe in Fukushima and the UK government's bizarre decision to go ahead anyway and build new nuclear power stations in places like Sizewell and Bradwell.

More nuclear power stations means more nuclear waste. It is horrendously unfair for local communities - not to mention untold future generations: our kids and their kids - to have to put up with the toxic legacy of madly-short-term decisions on nuclear power.

The Green Party will campaign ceaselessly against nuclear power, and so our sympathies and our solidarity is strongly with those who are faced with the intolerable, inevitable consequence of nuclear power - nuclear-waste dumping in our communities."
ENDS issued 12 July 2011

Recent Green Party statements on nuclear issues
http://eastern.greenparty.org.uk/region/easternregion/news/eastern-greens-say-british-should-avoid-dangerous-nuclear-distraction.html
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/23-05-2011-mep-warns-of-nuclear-dependence.html
http://peterborough.greenparty.org.uk/localsites/peterborough/news/nuclear-waste-dumping-petition.html
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/04-04-2011-unacceptable-risk-nuclear.html
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/31-05-2011-germany-no-nuclear.html
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/18-03-2011-renewables-caroline-qt.html
Notes
[i] the event organiser is John Knowles 07999 850 223
The Crown http://www.crowntotown.co.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=178132488914943
http://fionaradic.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/radioactivewaste/
[ii] http://ldia.org.uk/post/Campaigners-bring-a-legal-challenge.aspx
[iii] on.fb.me/lKwDn9
[iv] http://www.kingscliffewastewatchers.co.uk/

Results of Deeping St James by-election held on 23rd June 2011

Green Party — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:58:22 +0100

Greens contested the following wards

South Kesteven Distict Council

Deeping St James (3 seats)
ELECTED

Dilks (Independant) - 792
Stevens (Independant) - 647
Auger (Conservative) - 631

RUNNERS UP

Thomas (Conservative) - 483
Baxter (Green) - 350
Exton (Conservative) - 318
Bossingham (Green) - 259
Hammersley (LibDem) - 242
Morris (LibDem) - 70
Morris (LibDem) - 67

turnout 26%

full results will be posted at South Kesteven District Council's webpage

to support the newly formed South Lincolnshire Green Party please get in touch

Referendum Results

Green Party — Mon, 09 May 2011 11:12:33 +0100

The detailed results of the referendum for

Fenland, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough are here.