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12th April 2021 / 12th April 2021 by Angela
In 2019 the first 3 Councillors elected as Greens joined Thanet District Council, and they’ve achieved a lot. This year we have 7 candidates standing for election for Kent County Council, two for by-elections for Thanet District Council and one for Ramsgate Town Council. Just think what a difference they could make! Because of lockdown, […]
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Britain’s leading political parties, including the Greens, have banded together to demand the government ban conversion therapy. The group, which includes LGBT+ Conservatives, the Labour Party and Plaid Cymru, have written a letter to equalities minister, Liz Truss, urging immediate action. According to Stonewall, “Conversion therapy (or ‘cure’ therapy or reparative therapy) refers to any […]
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7th April 2021 / 9th April 2021 by Angela
By Tricia Austin, Thanet District Council and Ramsgate Town Council candidate for Ramsgate Central Harbour in the May elections 7 April is #WorldHealthDay. The World Health Organisation’s theme for this year’s World Health Day is eliminating health inequalities around the world – something very much in our minds as we consider the inequalities highlighted and […]
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18th March 2021 / 18th March 2021 by Angela
By Tricia Austin (Ramsgate Litter Forum and Thanet Green Party) 18 March is Global Recycling Day, co-ordinated by the Global Recycling Foundation, who point out: “The waste stream continues to grow at a frightening rate which we cannot just ignore – or worse, pass on to future generations to handle.” We don’t do very well […]
Elections
8th March 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela
Thanet Green Party is delighted to be standing a full slate of candidates for May’s KCC elections. Ramsgate In Ramsgate, our candidates are Becky Wing and Katie Gerrard. Becky needs little introduction to Ramsgate residents. She has been Green Councillor for Central Harbour ward on Thanet District Council and Ramsgate Town Council for two years, […]
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Welcome to the online version of the Thanet Green Party newsletter, covering topics including the community Covid response, snack bags for NHS staff, helping lorry drivers stranded at Manston at Christmas and a new Thanet District Council scheme looking at the future of Ramsgate. We’ll be delivering printed copies of the newsletter to households following […]
By Katie Gerrard, Thanet Green Party Every International Women’s Day I consider what we’ve achieved since this time last year. I don’t think anyone can count 2020 as a normal time, but has it affected women disproportionately to men? March 8th also marks the day schools reopen after three months of online lessons. How has […]
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4th February 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela
As Green Councillor for Central Harbour, I am the lone Green Councillor on Ramsgate Town Council and 1 of only 3 Green TDC Councillors. So I have an uphill task in raising environmental concerns. If you know me, you will know that the felling or loss of any of our habitat saddens me, and that […]
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29th January 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela
Are you vegan, or just vegan-curious? Want to try a new recipe? Join us for a fun vegan cook-along! We are very lucky to know the fabulous #theoutspokenblonde who certainly knows all about Vegan cooking. So please join us in ZOOM for a cook-along. Remember to grab the ingredients before the 3rd of Feb💚 The […]
Deb and Phil Shotton, Vice Chair and Policy Advisor respectively of Thanet Green Party, have an update on their community campaign to supply NHS snack bags to our hard working NHS staff: “First and foremost, a big shout out of thanks to those in our Thanet communities who have donated both time and money to […]
7th January 2021 by Angela
Thanet Green Party press statement, 3 January 2021 Thanet’s Green Councillors Becky Wing, Mike Garner and Trevor Roper are seriously alarmed by the confusion and harm being caused by the Government’s ill-considered schools policy in the face of the latest Covid-19 crisis. In a situation worsened both by the abject failure of the test-and-trace system […]
7th January 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela
Sadly, the impact of Covid prevented us from delivering our Autumn/ Winter Green View newsletter to every house & flat in Ramsgate as we’d planned – so here is a copy for those of you who didn’t receive one! Our Spring newsletter will be out in February/ March, ongoing restrictions permitting. To contribute an article […]
Thanet Green Party press release, 4 January 2021 Thanet Green Party Councillors and volunteers have collaborated with Our Kitchen in Ramsgate to bring snack bags to hard-pressed NHS staff working on the front line at Margate’s QEQM hospital. A source at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust tells us: “This second wave has hit local […]
Over Christmas an undetermined number of lorries sat stationary at Manston Airfield and on the routes to the port of Dover. The port was closed for several days, re-opening too late for many of the stranded lorry drivers to get home for Christmas. On 22nd December Priti Patel claimed just shy of 900 lorries at […]
4th December 2020 / 9th March 2021 by Angela
Welcome to a new feature on our website. Our busy Green local councillors will aim to bring you regular updates on their activities. Becky Wing (Ramsgate Central) has been very busy at Ramsgate Port and protesting tree-felling in Ellington Park and doesn’t have an update for us this week, but here are updates from Trevor […]
20th November 2020 / 4th December 2020 by Angela
Rail Policy: We strongly support the ambition to increase rail use, both for passenger and freight traffic, the plans to improve integration with other forms of transport and with EU rail services, and the commitment to increasing the network’s sustainability. We believe, however, that in the light of KCC’s climate emergency declaration the strategy is […]
29th October 2020 / 29th October 2020 by Angela
