Covid testing scandal: our open letter to Siobhan Baillie MP demanding immediate action 3rd November 2021 / 3rd November 2021 by Susan Fenton Stroud Greens have written to MP Siobhan Baillie demanding that the scandal-hit testing laboratory at the centre of the false-negative scandal is shut down and an immediate investigation held. This comes as the Good Law Project launches legal action asking Health Secretary Sajid Javid to immediately terminate Immensa’s contracts, compensate those affected and to take […] Read more » COVID-19 Immensa Siobhan Baillie
What’s next after COP26? Public meeting in Stroud and online will discuss the way forward 1st November 2021 / 8th November 2021 by Susan Fenton The decisions reached at COP26 – and how they can be moved forward by local individuals and communities – will be discussed at a public meeting on Saturday November 13 at Lansdown Hall, Stroud. The meeting – from 7pm-9pm – will hear from a panel of expert local speakers and there will be opportunities to […] Read more » Cloud Cafe COP26
False negative scandal: Greens demand government action on Stroud’s huge Covid rates 31st October 2021 / 1st November 2021 by Susan Fenton After government figures showed Stroud has one of the three highest Covid rates in the country, following the scandal of false negative tests, Stroud District Green Party is asking MP Siobhan Baillie to urgently speak to Health Secretary Sajid Javid to ensure it cannot happen again. The government website on Friday (October 29) listed Tewkesbury, […] Read more » Chloe Turner COVID-19 false negatives
Stroud Greens join nationwide Clang for Climate 31st October 2021 / 1st November 2021 by Susan Fenton Local residents turned out on Saturday night (October 30) at various locations to join the nationwide Clang for Climate action. Several current and former councillors were among the crowd outside the Subscription Rooms in Stroud, making a noise with pots and pans, steel drums and handbells. Meanwhile, muffled bells were rung at nearby St Lawrence’s […] Read more » Clang for Climate COP26
Budget: Government funding commitment needed to make sure all Stroud homes are warm and to set up local/national government climate task force 26th October 2021 / 27th October 2021 by Susan Fenton The government must commit to funding innovations proposed by the Green Party if all residents of Stroud District are to get the chance to live in properly insulated and warm homes, said Stroud-based economist Molly Scott Cato ahead of the Chancellor’s Budget tomorrow (October 27). Molly, who is the Green Party’s Finance & Economy spokesperson, […] Read more » Budget climate task force retrofit
Conservative Group Leader says wearing masks in council meeting is ‘unreasonable’ – in district with the country’s second-highest increase in COVID rate 22nd October 2021 / 27th October 2021 by Susan Fenton Stroud District Green Party has today issued the following press release, condemning the “intolerable” attitude towards wearing masks and Covid safety of the Conservative Group leader on the district council. The leader of the Conservative Group of Councillors on Stroud District Council has said that he believes it was “unreasonable” to ask Councillors to wear […] Read more » covid Stroud District Council
Greens tape their mouths shut as gesture of sadness over incinerator protesters being silenced 22nd October 2021 / 22nd October 2021 by Susan Fenton Two local Green Party members made an impromptu visual statement by taping their mouths shut to show their sadness at the forced winding-up of incinerator campaign group Community R4C. Cllr Adrian Oldman and party activist Alan Mossman (left and right in picture) stuck masking tape over their mouths while visiting Stroud town centre, as a […] Read more » CR4C javelin park
Global Day of Action for Climate Justice: join vigil in Stroud on November 6 21st October 2021 / 27th October 2021 by Susan Fenton Stroud residents of all political persuasions will be joining a Vigil for the Planet on Saturday November 6 to mark the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice. The event, from 12 noon until 12.30 on the corner of High Street and Kendrick Street, can be joined by anyone who is concerned about the lack […] Read more » Climate change COP26
Javelin Park incinerator latest: our response as Gloucestershire County Council asks court to shut down Community R4C 4th October 2021 / 27th October 2021 by Susan Fenton Just a week after the long-delayed auditor’s report into the Javelin Park incinerator was finally presented to Gloucestershire County Council’s audit committee, the council is continuing with legal action to forcibly close down Community R4C, the Community Benefit Company that has brought the incinerator contract procurement irregularities to light. There will be an online hearing […] Read more » CR4C GloucestershireCountyCouncil javelin park
Report fails to prove Javelin Park contract was lawful: Greens demand changes to County Council’s procurement practice 28th September 2021 / 29th September 2021 by Susan Fenton After the long-delayed auditor’s report into the Javelin Park incinerator failed to establish that the incinerator was lawfully procured, Stroud District Green Party is calling for an end to the “culture of secrecy” around major contracts, and for lessons to be learnt from record-keeping and transparency failures in this case. In the report, presented today […] Read more » CR4C GloucestershireCountyCouncil javelin park
