Stroud Greens delighted by Severn ward by-election win 12th June 2025 / 12th June 2025 by Susan Fenton The Severn ward by-election yesterday (June 11) saw Moya Shannon becoming the 24th Green Party councillor on Stroud District Council. Moya won with 439 votes, ahead of the nearest rival, the Conservative candidate, who got 425 votes. The other candidates were from Reform (421), Labour (177), the Liberal Democrats (112) and UKIP (5). Moya will […] Read more » By-election elections Moya Shannon Severn ward Stroud District Council
Green ambitions for Gloucestershire County Council after the May elections 18th April 2025 / 19th April 2025 by Susan Fenton We’re pleased to share our ambitions for what we’d like to achieve on Gloucestershire County Council. We believe these broad themes – which cover everything from healthcare, education and transport to the environment, the economy and farming – make the Greens the best party to vote for. Read more » elections Gloucestershire County Council
Statement about Dr Richard Dean, Green Party candidate for Dursley division 16th April 2025 / 20th April 2025 by Susan Fenton There have been some recent social media comments regarding a Daily Mail story published in 2018 about Dr Richard Dean attending a medical practitioners’ tribunal that year. This was fully disclosed to and discussed between Dr Dean and Green Party officials before he was selected as our candidate. In 2017, at the time of the […] Read more » elections
Labour canvassers making inaccurate claims about Greens 2nd April 2025 / 3rd April 2025 by Susan Fenton Labour canvassers in Stroud are telling residents that Greens voted with Tory councillors at Gloucestershire County Council to cut funding for Community Hubs. This is untrue. What actually happened during the Budget setting was this: Greens asked for amendments to the budget to give £420,000 to social and environmental projects. The Tories accepted our amendments. […] Read more » elections Gloucestershire County Council Labour Party
Stroud Greens name candidates for Gloucestershire County Council elections 2nd April 2025 / 2nd April 2025 by Susan Fenton Stroud District Green Party has named its candidates for the Gloucestershire County Council elections on May 1. The party is standing candidates in all 11 divisions in Stroud District, and is confident that it can increase the number of Green seats on GCC (currently four). The Green candidates are as follows: Bisley & Painswick: Cllr […] Read more » candidates elections Gloucestershire County Council
Generous donation in memory aids our election campaign 2nd April 2025 / 2nd April 2025 by Susan Fenton A donation of £500 has been made to the County Council election fund in memory of Gerald Hartley, who died last year. Gerald was a significant figure in SDGP’s elections successes over a number of years in the 2010s, serving as both Elections Agent and Campaign Manager, as well as standing as a candidate at District, […] Read more » elections Gerald Hartley Gloucestershire County Council
County council elections to go ahead: Gloucestershire Greens react 6th February 2025 by Susan Fenton Gloucestershire Greens are delighted to have it confirmed that the Gloucestershire County Council elections are to go ahead, despite the council’s Conservative leader trying to have them cancelled. Adrian Oldman, coordinator of Stroud District Green Party, said: “Around the country, people are being denied a vote at local elections in May because the Labour government […] Read more » Adrian Oldman Beki Hoyland elections Forest of Dean GloucestershireCountyCouncil
Greens oppose ‘desperate and undemocratic’ plans to postpone Gloucestershire County Council elections 9th January 2025 by Susan Fenton We today issued the following press release as a response to the Conservative request for May’s county council elections to be postponed. Gloucestershire Greens say the Gloucestershire County Council elections in May must go ahead, for the sake of public trust in local democracy. The county’s Green parties – Stroud District, Forest of Dean, Cheltenham, […] Read more » Devolution elections gloucestershire Gloucestershire Greens GloucestershireCountyCouncil Local government
‘Greens can, and must, be a huge force in British politics’ 14th December 2024 / 14th December 2024 by Susan Fenton Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski came to Stroud recently to meet councillors and supporters. He talked about – among other things – the national party’s growth, its successes locally, and our prospects in the Gloucestershire County Council elections next May. Interview by Sue Fenton. Q. Why do you like to visit local parties? A. […] Read more » elections Stroud Greens Zack Polanski
Hear Stroud Green MP candidate Pete Kennedy taking part in pre-election radio debate 17th June 2024 / 17th June 2024 by Susan Fenton The Green parliamentary candidate for Stroud, Pete Kennedy, took part in a debate on BBC Radio Gloucestershire last week along with candidates from Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. They all responded to questions sent in on a variety of subjects by members of the public. Click here to listen to the debate: Here’s […] Read more » elections General Election Pete Kennedy
