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Immigration – a thorny subject?

Election byline from Sherief Hassan, Green Party Parliamentary candidate for Hemel Hempstead Immigration is a divisive subject that is being used as a major flag waved by different parties. It raises some questions:   Why do people migrate? The first one is easy. Escaping conflict. Loss of security from an invading force or local tyranny. […]

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Tactical Voting? Vote with conviction in 2024

It is time for Greens to vote with their hearts Election byline from Paul de Hoest, Green Party Parliamentary candidate for Harpenden & Berkhamsted The most common position I am hearing on the doorsteps is that “we just want to get the Tories out”.  However, the two leading opposition parties in the West Herts area, […]

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Dacorum Green Parliamentary Candidates

Paul de Hoest and Sherief Hassan return as the prospective parliamentary candidates for the constituencies of Berkhamsted & Harpenden and Hemel Hempstead respectively. Paul has served as a Town Councillor in Berkhamsted and from his time in the Bank of England, he has a keen understanding of the economy, business and the way that a […]

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Election wins on Berkhamsted Town Council

New Green Councillors Elected in Dacorum Dacorum Greens continue to build a presence on local councils in Hertfordshire with the election of two new councillors in Berkhamsted on 4th May 2023.  Leslie Stuart Tate (left), former teacher, now a climate activist and author was elected in Berkhamsted Castle and Kevin Fielding (right), a local science […]

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Dacorum Greens, Kevin Fielding standing in the By-Election for Berkhamsted West.

Kevin Fielding – Dacorum Green Party candidate for Berkhamsted West Dacorum Green Party are fielding candidates in the upcoming by-elections in Berkhamsted West and Hemel Hempstead – Boxmoor. Kevin Fielding is standing in Berkhamsted West. I first moved to Berkhamsted in 1999, have raised my family here, and care deeply about this community and its […]

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Dacorum Greens response to the Fairfax planning application in Gadebridge

Map of the proposed Fairfax Development in Gadebridge

We have already faced the many issues surrounding the proposed Local Plan from Dacorum Borough Council, which is now under review since the consultation last year. Now Dacorum is under a new threat to, not just environmental destruction, but also independent applications from developers with plans to add huge estates that place pressure on already […]

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Sherief Hassan speaks out on Public Transport in Hemel NW

Sherief Hassan, our candidate for Hemel NW, is an outspoken supporter of public services – particularly in transport. Sherief says, “We need to think differently. We need new ideas, not just the same old excuses. We Greens have been consistent in our messages and our core beliefs. Only now, when it’s getting late in the […]

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Joe Stopps sets out his priorities for Tring

Joe Stopps, the Dacorum Green party candidate in the by-election for Tring Central in 2021, has set out his priorities in the election on 6th May in a video filmed around where he lives and works. Joe is an active campaigner and, aside from his efforts in reducing air pollution next to a school in […]

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Greens Condemn Integrated Review as ‘Misguided’

“Unless everybody is secure, nobody is secure” Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley has responded this morning to the Integrated Review calling it ‘Misguided’. He said: “This review is based on meaningless rhetoric about Global Britain and a desire to boost the sale of arms by British companies. It will do nothing to increase the security […]

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Petition to create a tax incentive to favour retrofit instead of demolition and new build

Molly Scott Cato launched this petition calling on the Government to “0% rate VAT on refurbishment projects total costs if they substantially reduce CO2e emission of the building; impose a 20% VAT for new build schemes, reduced to 5% if the build meets minimum passive house standard; to 0% rate VAT for all items on […]

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