Next Wednesday (29th) Left Foot Forward will be hosting a 90-minute hustings with the Green Party's mayoral hopefuls
Next Wednesday 29 July at lunchtime Left Foot Forward will be hosting an online hustings with the Green Party’s mayoral candidates.
Caroline Russell, Sian Berry, Benali Hamdache, Rashid Nix, Jonathan Bartley and Tom Chance are all competing to be the Green mayoral candidate in the elections which will take place on 5 May, 2016.
This is your chance to ask them questions about why they should run, and why London should be in Green hands.
Visit this page at 12.00pm next Wednesday for what promises to be an interesting discussion.
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15 Responses to “Online hustings with Green Party mayoral candidates”
Tom Chance
Co-ops should be a key plank of our programme for City Hall. We should spread power, not just wield it. I’ve set out two ideas for citywide umbrella co-operatives:
1: A housing co-op with a £2bn fund (raised by borrowing against business rates income) to support communities build their own homes and take over the regeneration of their estates. It’s based on a successful model from Cornwall. I’d also prioritise housing co-ops for public land.
2: A solar co-op with £80m to give every Londoner the right to a £10 stake, encouraging everyone to invest more to put hundreds of millions into local solar energy co-operative projects.
Tom Chance
Under Boris, recycling has flatlined, while incinerators now take almost half our waste! Mass-burn incinerators are a huge waste of recyclable resources, and a very inefficient and polluting way of generating energy.
To stop incinerators, we need to develop the alternatives. There are just a handful of anaerobic digestors and other modern waste facilities in London. I’d only give funding and planning permission for green solutions that make sure we reuse and recycle before getting clean energy from the rest (for example, anaerobic digestors break down food waste into biogas which you can burn).
Tom Chance
Hedge funds and banks employ such a tiny number of people in London – many more are still employed in manufacturing! As you say, years of fawning over this sector has drained brainpower away from other industries, blown a housing market bubble and crashed our entire economy in 2007/2008.
I’d start by supporting European efforts to tame the financial sector, led by Greens like Philippe Lamberts who got the bankers’ bonus cap introduced. I’d task a team in the Met Police to work closely with the City of London police on rooting out and prosecuting corruption and illegal activity. I’d also want to work constructively with the experts in the city to get finance working better for London – giving credit to small businesses, investing in a solar revolution, and more.
Damien Guitarlessons-Inbromley
In relation to Boris… which three things would you be in most agreement in with him?Also can you point out three things that you could do differently to him.Points that define your political and ethical perspectives.
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Moving past getting the nomination, how are you going to get elected mayor?