Tower Hamlets Green Party https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/ Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:03:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Comment: Rushanara Ali should stand down as MP  https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/08/08/comment-rushanara-ali-should-stand-down-as-mp/ Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:03:44 +0000 https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1152 “Rushanara Ali is no longer the right person to represent Bethnal Green and Stepney. She has completely lost the trust of the voters and should do the honourable thing by standing down and allowing them to elect an MP who really speaks for them” said Councillor Nathalie Bienfait on behalf of Tower Hamlets Green Party. […]

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]]> Solidarity with striking hotel and bar workers in Tower Hamlets https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/08/08/solidarity-with-striking-hotel-and-bar-workers-in-tower-hamlets/ Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:53:38 +0000 https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1150 We have recently heard about strike action being planned by workers at a hotel and bar in Tower Hamlets. We fully back these workers in their fight against unfair and exploitative working conditions, low pay and shocking reductions in contracted hours. At Radisson Blu Hotel, strike action was unanimously backed by workers after their new […]

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]]> Elect Nathalie as the Green mayor of Tower Hamlets https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/08/04/elect-nathalie-as-the-green-mayor-of-tower-hamlets/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:43:57 +0000 https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1146 “I am asking you to vote for me as the first Green Party mayor of Tower Hamlets if you agree with me on some basic ideas on local, national and international politics. The four years I have spent as a councillor have convinced me that Tower Hamlets needs a totally new way of dealing with […]

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]]> Tower Hamlets Greens call for community unity against anti-asylum seeker protests https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/22/tower-hamlets-greens-call-for-community-unity-against-anti-asylum-seeker-protests/ Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:28:28 +0000 https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1137 Tower Hamlets Green Party councillor Nathalie Bienfait and Green Party members tonight stood in solidarity with asylum seekers due to be moved into a hotel in Canary Wharf by the Home Office. The Tower Hamlets Green Party calls for the entire community to unite against anti-asylum seeker protests which are taking place outside the hotel. […]

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]]> Greens honour the legacy of the Suffragettes by defending the right to protest https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/19/greens-honour-the-legacy-of-the-suffragettes-by-defending-the-right-to-protest/ Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:18:22 +0000 https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1134 There is a deep hypocrisy at the heart of the official version of Suffragette history. The real Suffragettes were the Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil of their time. They were willing to go to prison to defy unjust laws, and they did things which seriously divided public opinion. In fact, while opponents of genocide […]

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]]> Comment: Mayor Rahman should protect our community’s assets equally https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/17/comment-mayor-rahman-should-protect-our-communitys-assets-equally/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:33:30 +0000 https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1132 At the full council meeting held last night at the Town Hall in Whitechapel, we heard three petitions all raising similar issues. All three were organisations occupying council-owned buildings. All three had either they had been subject to rent reviews, or were trying to formalise their lease. Mayor Rahman has made it clear in previous […]

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]]> Tower Hamlets Green Party to stand mayoral candidate in 2026  https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/14/tower-hamlets-green-party-to-stand-mayoral-candidate-in-2026/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:16:01 +0000 https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1127 Councillor Nathalie Bienfait has announced that Tower Hamlets Green Party will be standing a mayoral candidate and their largest ever slate of council candidates in May 2026. She promises an energetic and positive campaign to build on the success of the party’s two Tower Hamlets candidates in last year’s general election.  The party, which currently […]

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]]> Comment: Lutfur Rahman is holding us back from healthy streets https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/09/comment-lutfur-rahman-is-holding-us-back-from-healthy-streets/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:32:46 +0000 https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1112 The Healthy Streets Scorecard 2025, published 8 July, has shown the dangerous impact of Lutfur Rahman’s policies on transport. Tower Hamlets dropped 4 places in the ranking of London boroughs on infrastructure which supports people to take healthier modes of travel. Our borough’s fall in the rankings is mostly due to inaction, but the Mayor […]

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]]> Join the Green Party in Tower Hamlets and get active locally to change the world https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/08/join-the-green-party-in-tower-hamlets-and-get-active-locally-to-change-the-world/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:54:39 +0000 https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1107 Tower Hamlets Green Party will be standing a mayoral candidate and our largest ever slate of council candidates in May 2026. We will be running an energetic and positive campaign to build on the success of our two candidates in last year’s general election.  Here are some of the reasons why you should join us. […]

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]]> Tower Hamlets did not vote for Labour austerity say the Greens https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/03/tower-hamlets-did-not-vote-for-labour-austerity-say-the-greens/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:03:33 +0000 https://towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1101 Nathalie Bienfait, Green Party councillor for Bow West, says that the overwhelming majority of people in Tower Hamlets who voted in the last general election cast their vote for candidates they thought were committed to ending austerity and who would improve people’s lives. Labour’s changes to the benefits system will hit local people hard. Already, […]

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