Achievements Elections
5th July 2024 / 27th September 2024 by pressdurham
What a night for the Green Party! We now have four Green MPs to represent us at Westminster. This result is an incredible breakthrough for the Green Party and shows how much appetite there is for something different from the status quo. Many North East Green Party activists contributed to this success, both by travelling […]
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Elections Public engagement
26th February 2024 / 9th October 2024 by pressdurham
All the candidates standing for North East Mayor, including the Green Party’s Andrew Gray, will be answering questions at a debate in St Chad’s College. If you are interested in having your question answered by the candidates, or you just want to hear what they have to say, you can attend by booking online with […]
Achievements Local elections
11th May 2023 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
The Green Party of England and Wales has attracted almost 800 new members since the 2023 local elections. This year’s local elections saw the Green Party achieve its best ever results. The Greens gained 241 seats, breaking the previous record the party set in 2019. There were no local elections in County Durham this year. […]
Climate Democracy Extinction Rebellion Local elections
23rd April 2023 / 16th October 2024 by pressdurham
The Green Party has reiterated its call for a rapid transition away from fossil fuels as climate activists gather in London this weekend and said a vote for the Greens in the local elections next month is a vote for climate action. Several high profile Greens will be speaking during the four days of action, […]
Local elections
5th April 2023 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
National Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer was in the region on Tuesday (4th April) to support candidates standing in the local council elections on 4th May. Her morale-boosting visit was a recognition that the Party sees the North-East as a realistic target for building on past successes by winning more seats on our councils. Although […]
Caroline Lucas Pollution Supporting communities
10th February 2023 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
County Durham Greens have been working with Green Party MP Caroline Lucas to push the Government to find the cause of the massive die-off of shellfish and crustaceans off the North East coast. Crab and lobster populations, from Teesside to as far south as Scarborough, have been decimated since September 2021. Some scientists and fishermen […]
17th July 2022 / 16th October 2024 by pressdurham
We’ve won an award! County Durham Greens have won the ‘Working Together’ Award in the annual Green Party Regional Awards at its AGM. A panel of judges gave us the award in recognition of our generosity in helping other local Green Party branches, particularly Sunderland, in the run up to May’s local elections. The nomination […]
Housing Policies
17th May 2022 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
A £250 billion investment plan for local authorities is needed to insulate and upgrade 10 million homes. The Green Party has also called for a £320 emergency winter fuel payment for every household as energy bills surge, and the restoration of the £20 uplift to Universal Credit and doubling it to £40 per week, paid […]
26th April 2022 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
With local elections looming on 5th May in many parts of the region, it is encouraging to see how far the party has come in a short time and to look forward to adding more Green councillors on election day. Our own Green Party Durham County Councillor Jonathan Elmer, who is also co-ordinating our election […]
Democracy Green Party Protests
7th January 2022 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
The Government is trying to take away our democratic freedom to protest. This month, the Police, Court Sentencing and Courts Bill (the Policing Bill) reaches a crucial stage in its passage through Parliament. The Green Party is calling for action to defend our civil rights against several pernicious late amendments to the Bill which would: […]
Durham Green Party Green Party Press release Small Business
2nd December 2021 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
County Durham Green Party is calling for measures to help the ‘backbone of our local economy’ green their operations and improve employee welfare Ahead of Small Business Saturday on 4th December, County Durham Greens are calling on both national government and Durham County Council to implement a series of measures to help small and independent […]
Green Party Policies
5th November 2021 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
This is a shorter version of an article by our own Jonathan Elmer, consultant ecologist and the Green Party’s national spokesman for the natural world, recently published in The Ecologist. The regeneration of nature isn’t happening, either in the UK or around the world. We need to give nature inalienable rights. Since 1970 there has […]
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Elections Green Party
9th June 2021 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
The Green Party is celebrating the best local election results in its history with more green councillors on more councils across the country than ever before. Voters across the country have made clear their hope for a Greener future after the Covid pandemic. The Greens have won a total of 155 seats and gained representation […]
