I got this email today from a new Barnet Greens volunteer in my constituency.
"I was a Labour voter, but to be honest Jeremy Corbyn's links with Sinn Fein and Ken Livingston's Rabid Anti- semitism. I have been ecologically conscious since a child and I wish to stay true to my Beliefs."
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At Dalston Kingsland with @sianberry @DirectionTravel & @filosofical_140 for #votegreenonorange overground trip pic.twitter.com/dPTifSrxV3
— Tilda Long (@tildalong) April 20, 2016
Yesterday I joined public transport Adham Fisher on the first half of his 10 hour quest to visit every stop on the London Overground. My first barrier was at Hendon Station the machine refused to sell me a zones 1-9 (plus Watford) travelcard. The Zone system and TravelCard would be abolished under Green Party's plans.
After lunch time we took the blue TfL rail line to Stratford and Sian Berry and her PA joined us at Stratford through to Highbury where of course we were met by transport geek Caroline Russell.
Caroline is not standing as a consitutency or Mayor candidate but you can make your vote go further by voting her for the Londonwide party list on the London Assembly.
Green Party - "Vote Green on Orange"
This morning I heard the soothing tones of Caroline Pidgeon, poor Caroline, begging Today listeners to vote Lib Dem on the orange ballot paper. If she does copy our idea and tries to complete the Circle line she'd have some trouble at Earl's Court which is a building site, and she might face a few train delays due to the botched sub surface rail upgrade that she as chair of the London Assembly's Transport Committee is responsible for messing up. However, there is probably no way of getting rid of her. The good news is I've voted with my Yahoo mail spam filter, and marked her email about childcare as spam. I never wrote to her about childcare, and on a technical note, if she is using Nationbuilder, she is literally paying for every email that is sent directly to my spam folder.
The other good news is that NUS have finally elected a president that represents students, not just the Labour Party. You do not need me to tell you that the Telegraph article tweeted verbatim by Adam Langleben, and most of the stuff you get when you google her, is a load of rubbish. I would encourage you not to click on any of these antisemitism smears; instead, twitter has some very favourable things, even from the horse's mouth. I watched the video with my dad. My remark was that if she hadn't talked so much about being black, she could pass off as Jewish. My dad is confused about the student black liberation groups. In this country the majority of black students are not Afro-Carribean, but they still call themselves black as an umbrella term for Asian, mixed race, and Arab. The narrative of her speech, however, focused on the right to safety and to get education. Safety is primarily from violence. I don't think there's any other form of terror than violent terror.
A very satisfying 4/20, definitely worth skipping a bit of gardening work for.
TORY 'FACTS' ON ZAC ARE SO MISLEADING - letter printed in this weeks Jewish News
I question some of the Tory facts inserted into the full page advert last week, for "Zac Goldsmith: man of principle". The Tories have delivered, and will deliver, more air pollution not less, in City Hall.
The Green Party candidate has received a rating of 10/10 from air pollution experts compared to Zac's negative rating.
As for shechita and burial these are not under threat and they are just trying to scare you, especially as Mr Khan is of a faith that is committed to these traditions as well.
I would question whether they are lying about police numbers. This election is not run by first-past-the-post so allowing the community to bounce out of our tactical voting habits and vote for what you believe in.
Finally I'd like to thank the Jewish News for inviting a Green representative to speak the JW3 meeting. I understand because the time was moved later you will be hearing from Jonathan who is number 4 on the London-wide party list. (The leading candidate has Council duties that night).
Ben Samuel,
Hendon
(The Jewish News editorial team kindly changed vote for what you believe in to vote for what they believe in, which does not make sense)
What I will say at tonight's protest
Many voters in West Hendon did not vote for this government or this council.
activists such as myself have been at the front line of Housing Struggles whether West Hendon in Hendon, Sweets Way in Chipping Barnet, or the Whitefields estate in Golders Green.
The Government is taking steps to make more laws against public disorder,
The Daily Mail screams that they want to scrap the Human Rights Act which they claim is aimed at Abu Hamza and benefit scroungers but we've been trying to meet these benefit scroungers but the millionaires are nowhere to be seen.
Both Matthew Offord and the UKIP chap refused to come to West Hendon residents association for a hustings.
And yet the conservatives have the chutzpa to claim they share British values of democracy.
What is democracy when they are blind to the needs of the most vulnerable in our society?
A Green Mayor of London --- would
tackle air pollution head on, not try and hide the scientific evidence.
A Green London Assembly member for Barnet & Camden
would
stop social cleansing - Kosovo style or Westminster style
A Green assembly member from the proportional representation top up list would
would continue to fight for every square inch of green spaces
Dan ----- has done a grand job of getting an affordable deal including parking and so on.
However, my mate --- is an accidental landlord in ------ Close and he does not know what to do because he is being told he has to take his private tenant to court in order for her to be re-housed. Where will she go?
A Green Mayor of London would replace intermediate products such as "shared ownership" and "shared equity" that don't stay permanently affordable with co-operative home ownership and rental models.
Our West Hendon is not a political organisation it is a community organisation.
That's why I told Janette if we send a message out saying Vote Labour that would be a betrayal of the trust we have built up over the last year.
But I campaigned on cutting VAT for refurbishment, that could cut your heating bills to less than a hundred pounds a year, and boost the economy.
What has Labour and local politicians ever done for us? Did they sign the petition? NO! The Green Party signed it but, then Labour started their own petition against the rent hike.
The email Paulette and Lubna sent out raised the question. If everyone is going to lose their affordable homes what is the point of this protest?
At MIPIM UK alternative conference someone asked, What does victory look like?
Well the Mayor and the Council have tried to divide and rule the community.
We are here to show who is in charge.
This land is our land.
This is our town hall.
It does not matter if Matthew Offord says wants to help lease holders over tenants, everyone has a human right to housing. And why would he say that?
No one in this campaign feels like they are taking on the council on their own.
Tenants have stuck together with lease holders through the inquiry.
If we can just hand in the petition to the Council at 7 p.m. tonight, in a dignified manner, we can make them listen, and we can show what a strong position we are in.
This is the first time that has happened that we take the fight to the Council and make them listen.
Sam Coates joins Labour and Con-Dems in debate - "Coalition Government Has Failed"
London's debating society New Turn www.newturn.org.uk whom I recommend you check out their programme, hosted a debate between the youth wings something Benali has been leading on for some time and seized the day with this one. Also check out New Turn's facebook page with photos here.
I was disappointed not to see more of you London Young Greens at the debate but there was nevertheless a strong turnout of young up-and-coming people I can no longer keep tabs on. Sadly it clashed with the final of the Great British Bake-off which is on iPlayer fyi.
The debate was live and un-amplified a 100-seater lecture theatre with New Turn live-tweeting but unfortunately Wifi was only for those with a KCL login. It was an all-male panel due to the fact that the female co-chair Ash is busy in Norwich and the female chair of Liberal Youth (joint press release on fee hike) on the billing is down with tonsillitis. :-(
The Chair of the debate the president of KCL Politics society started off by pointing out it was a joint event with New Turn, Politics Society, Labour society, and Conservative society.
The first thing that struck me about the proposition's comments on what Labour would do is the focus on care for the elderly. Spending thousands of pounds a day on bed-blocking makes no sense when the NHS budget and thousands of nurses are being cut. Instead Gordon Brown would have merged social care and spend hundreds a day on residential care.
Our Green Friend spoke emotively about the equality impact of the cuts and how they are economically illiterate. His fourth point is that worse than when Thatcher sent a lost generation to the JobCentre, this Government is sweeping the benefits away for this lost generation, forcing us to accept precarious jobs.
As you see from the twitter, Sam Coates, current 2013 co-chair of the Young Greens and Oxfordshire Councillor said, "We haven't heard much about global climate change for a while."
"We now have less than 5 years to reduce global gas emissions"
(The opposition from Conservative Future claimed that they have reduced the rich-poor gap in 6th-forms.)
"The coalition has succeeded in making the rich richer #NTCoalition"
"Thatcher recognised that when you put people out of work you need to compensate with macroeconomic policy. This hasn't happened #NTCoalition"
"We're making the country meaner as a result of this coalition #NTCoalition"
"We blame the unemployed, immigrants, etc when really its the policies of the government that have made us this way #NTCoalition"
Sam also mentioned the #bedroomtax.
Throughout Oliver made faces and muttered, and was forced to apologise "for distracting from the proposition's factually incorrect speech."
He faced LOLz from the left of the panel when he said "I am a conservative, I wish we had more opportunity to project our ... <ahem> values and power overseas but can't do that with deficit"
After the guest speakers (see The hashtag for tonight's event #NTCoalition ) there were contributions from the audience. The first came from the chair of Kings College London Labour society. There was also a question about something Sam Coates @samcoatescymru raised earlier. It was quite clever and climaxed in "That's why I joined the Green Party". It was evident that she was struggling with these issues as a KCL student so I'm glad I didn't add my 2-cents with my great big Vote Green t-shirt. She spoke about the difference between exchange value and use value in a way I understood. The question was what would the Green Party do in government? As a member of the proposition, Richard had a chance to reply as well.
There was a vote at the end, which did not include some Conservatives who walked out after the questions to attend Parliament.
The parties then stood in different corners of the room for a catchup while Sam snuk out. I had a chat with @RichardAngell (who now heads up LGBT Labour) about Brighton which he'd raised earlier. I really think that there should be localism and unfortunately we're seeing cuts from Westminster. I am proud that Brighton & Hove Greens will be holding a referendum on raising council tax from the rich, and if he really believes in freezing council tax he should join in coalition with the Tories. (Represented rather well in this debate by the cold-hearted @OliverCooper CF and @JoshDixonTweets from the Liberal Democrats)
I quite enjoyed the night...
(especially watching an all-male panel discuss the impact of the coalition's policies on women's lives)
The debate got me thinking about the Living Wage. I will write something about this and "taking the poorest out of tax" next week.
I was disappointed not to see more of you London Young Greens at the debate but there was nevertheless a strong turnout of young up-and-coming people I can no longer keep tabs on. Sadly it clashed with the final of the Great British Bake-off which is on iPlayer fyi.
The debate was live and un-amplified a 100-seater lecture theatre with New Turn live-tweeting but unfortunately Wifi was only for those with a KCL login. It was an all-male panel due to the fact that the female co-chair Ash is busy in Norwich and the female chair of Liberal Youth (joint press release on fee hike) on the billing is down with tonsillitis. :-(
The Chair of the debate the president of KCL Politics society started off by pointing out it was a joint event with New Turn, Politics Society, Labour society, and Conservative society.
The first thing that struck me about the proposition's comments on what Labour would do is the focus on care for the elderly. Spending thousands of pounds a day on bed-blocking makes no sense when the NHS budget and thousands of nurses are being cut. Instead Gordon Brown would have merged social care and spend hundreds a day on residential care.
Our Green Friend spoke emotively about the equality impact of the cuts and how they are economically illiterate. His fourth point is that worse than when Thatcher sent a lost generation to the JobCentre, this Government is sweeping the benefits away for this lost generation, forcing us to accept precarious jobs.
As you see from the twitter, Sam Coates, current 2013 co-chair of the Young Greens and Oxfordshire Councillor said, "We haven't heard much about global climate change for a while."
"We now have less than 5 years to reduce global gas emissions"
(The opposition from Conservative Future claimed that they have reduced the rich-poor gap in 6th-forms.)
"The coalition has succeeded in making the rich richer #NTCoalition"
"Thatcher recognised that when you put people out of work you need to compensate with macroeconomic policy. This hasn't happened #NTCoalition"
"We're making the country meaner as a result of this coalition #NTCoalition"
"We blame the unemployed, immigrants, etc when really its the policies of the government that have made us this way #NTCoalition"
Sam also mentioned the #bedroomtax.
Throughout Oliver made faces and muttered, and was forced to apologise "for distracting from the proposition's factually incorrect speech."
He faced LOLz from the left of the panel when he said "I am a conservative, I wish we had more opportunity to project our ... <ahem> values and power overseas but can't do that with deficit"
After the guest speakers (see The hashtag for tonight's event #NTCoalition ) there were contributions from the audience. The first came from the chair of Kings College London Labour society. There was also a question about something Sam Coates @samcoatescymru raised earlier. It was quite clever and climaxed in "That's why I joined the Green Party". It was evident that she was struggling with these issues as a KCL student so I'm glad I didn't add my 2-cents with my great big Vote Green t-shirt. She spoke about the difference between exchange value and use value in a way I understood. The question was what would the Green Party do in government? As a member of the proposition, Richard had a chance to reply as well.
There was a vote at the end, which did not include some Conservatives who walked out after the questions to attend Parliament.
The parties then stood in different corners of the room for a catchup while Sam snuk out. I had a chat with @RichardAngell (who now heads up LGBT Labour) about Brighton which he'd raised earlier. I really think that there should be localism and unfortunately we're seeing cuts from Westminster. I am proud that Brighton & Hove Greens will be holding a referendum on raising council tax from the rich, and if he really believes in freezing council tax he should join in coalition with the Tories. (Represented rather well in this debate by the cold-hearted @OliverCooper CF and @JoshDixonTweets from the Liberal Democrats)
I quite enjoyed the night...
(especially watching an all-male panel discuss the impact of the coalition's policies on women's lives)
The debate got me thinking about the Living Wage. I will write something about this and "taking the poorest out of tax" next week.
Israel Expansion
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| design: Elliot Folan (Barnet) |
I think this is a blow to quite a lot of my pro-Israel opponents including Andrew Dismore, who narrowly lost the position of Member of Parliament for Hendon, who told me he supports a two state solution.
Also I gave £50 to the CND last month. It turns out they're not a registered charity. They sent me a leaflet and their 2010 magazine which is out today. It mentions very little about their facebook presence, which is the reason I got the appeal for funds.
This weekend we're having a Young Greens party to celebrate and welcome 750 new members. I think the fact it was free made it much easier for them to join the Green Party.
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