Black Lives Matter 9th June 2020 / 19th March 2024 by Dagan Smith Black Lives matter Supporting the Black Lives Matter movement is nothing more than words unless we address the systemic racism that affects people of colour, including in the context of Covid-19. The recent government-commissioned Public Health England (PHE) investigation found that people of Bangladeshi background in England are twice as likely as white Britons to […] Read more »
Letter from Molly Scott Cato on Test, Trace & Isolate. 26th May 2020 / 20th March 2021 by Dagan Smith Dear Sir/Madam New research has shown that the Covid-19 hotspot in Gloucestershire was probably related to the decision to go ahead with the Cheltenham Festival. Prof Spector from King’s College London told the BBC that “people will have probably died prematurely” as a result of that decision. The lesson from this episode is highly relevant […] Read more »
The Green Group voted against lowering the quorum requirements for Council and committee meetings. 19th May 2020 / 19th May 2020 by Dagan Smith The Green Group of Stroud District Council voted against a change of constitution but were outnumbered. The change means the quorum for remote Council meetings has dropped from 50% to 25%. This means out of the 51 councillors, only 7 would be considered a majority and can thus make a decision on behalf of the […] Read more »
Community has great suggestions for the future after lockdown 19th May 2020 / 19th May 2020 by Dagan Smith Read more »
Covid-Safe Workplaces 11th May 2020 / 11th May 2020 by Dagan Smith Stroud District Green Party has called for workplaces to have a certified and published plan for Covid-safety to be in place before employees are required to return to work. Following the Prime Minister’s call for a return to work, Greens are clear that the return should not resemble the piecemeal and haphazard procedure for locking […] Read more »
How can we build back better? 11th May 2020 / 22nd June 2020 by Dagan Smith As we are now beginning to imagine life after lockdown, what are we imagining? While we have all been in the same storm, we have been in different boats – with some families facing much greater difficulties than others (think single parent in a flat with kids or a care-worker with inadequate PPE). Some families, […] Read more »
Green party call for removal of dangerous and offensive sign from the beacon 6th May 2020 / 19th March 2024 by Dagan Smith The Stroud District Green Party has called for the removal of a false and misleading sign from the window of a shop called the Beacon in central Stroud which claims that Covid-19 is not a virus and can be cured by ingesting chloroquine and zinc. This level of disinformation is dangerous for all residents of […] Read more »
Green Councillors call for life saving plan for end of lockdown 6th May 2020 / 19th March 2024 by Dagan Smith Stroud District Green Councillors call to save lives in the future by creating new local public health workforce to track and trace future corona outbreaks. Gloucestershire County Councillor, Rachel Smith (Green Minchinhampton), has welcomed the Government’s announcement to move quickly towards establishing a network of contact tracers for identifying all people with the Corona virus […] Read more »
Green Councillors join call for Universal Basic Income to support us all through covid crisis 28th April 2020 / 6th May 2020 by Dagan Smith Local Green District and County Councillors join over 100 MPs and Peers across seven parties for the introduction of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) in response to COVID-19. The letter to Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer was published in the Financial Times on April 22, 2020. The joint statement calls for a recovery UBI […] Read more » COVID-19 Dursley Greens Stroud UBI
Building a Community Shield to Suppress the Coronavirus 23rd April 2020 / 23rd April 2020 by timdavies The Green Party of England and Wales has released a report written by Molly Scott Cato, making the case for an approach to the corona virus pandemic which combines testing with the establishment of ‘community shields’: a network of locally-based community protection schemes. Professor Scott Cato said: “From the beginning of this crisis, our government […] Read more »
