Debate breaks out in Green Party over gender identity and trans rights
Caroline Lucas has agreed to meet Woman’s Place UK, who are opposing changes to the Gender Recognition Act, while a former AM has ‘dared’ the party to expel him over the issue.
Darren Johnson
Passengers face massive disruption if Boris’s cuts to ticket offices happen
Boris Johnson entered office in 2008 with a firm pledge to keep ticket offices open.
The fate of Earl’s Court is in Boris Johnson’s hands
Despite being worth over a billion pounds to London’s real economy, attracting one a half million visitors from across London and the world, thirty thousand exhibitors, hundreds of events each year, the Earl’s Court Exhibition centers in West London that sustain thousands of jobs are threatened with demolition with plans to replace them with mostly extortionately priced homes.
The New Bus for London is an expensive vanity project
The New Bus for London is an expensive vanity project which the next Mayor will abandon as an outdated and polluting waste of money.
Boris bucks the market
Darren Johnson AM for the Green Party reports on the failings of the 600 new proposed ‘Boris Buses’ for London.
Boris can take the lead on entry-level jobs for the young unemployed
The Mayor of London should explain what he is doing to provide entry-level jobs for young people locked out of the workforce. The scale of the problem is huge.
How the Mayor could tackle high pay
Darren Johnson, Green Party member of the London Assembly, calls on London Mayor Boris Johnson to explore the idea of using public sector spending power to exert some influence on private sector pay.
It’s time pay inequality became a priority
Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the London Assembly, asks: Should we give equal priority to income inequality and tackle the pay of people at the top, in the belief that reducing the income gap will lead to economic, social and environmental justice? And can we find we right policies to achieve this?
Firefighters’ strikes: Tory Brian Coleman “addicted to conflict”
Green London Assembly Member Darren Johnson has criticised Conservative Fire Authority Chairman Brian Coleman for not wanting a settlement with London firemen.
A ratio cap of 20:1 won’t make pay fairer
The Green Party’s Darren Johnson, member of the London Assembly, argues Will Hutton’s proposal of a 20:1 wage cap is, in reality, too high.