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Green Party announces candidates for all four South Gloucestershire constituencies

South Gloucestershire Green Party is delighted to announce general election candidates for all four parliamentary constituencies within the district. In Filton and Bradley Stoke, we will be represented by James Nelson, who is a Bradley Stoke Town Councillor and law student. He said: “I am deeply honoured to have been selected to stand for the […]

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Greens more than double our vote share in Kingswood

Greens in Kingswood are celebrating our best ever result in a South Gloucestershire parliamentary election. In the recent Kingswood by-election our candidate, Lorraine Francis received 5.8% of the vote share, more than doubling our previous highest percentage and retaining our deposit for the first time in South Gloucestershire. According to the BBC, the Green Party […]

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Elect an MP who will stand up for our green spaces

Residents of Kingswood have the opportunity to elect an MP who will fight to save our green spaces, for today and for future generations. As Kingswood’s former MP argued in his resignation letter, we are facing a climate emergency and the time to act is now. We see this in the recent summer heat waves, […]

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Don’t penalise ordinary families with unfair immigration rules

This week the Conservative government announced plans to increase the minimum salary threshold for a family visa to £38,700 from next spring and increase the Immigration Health Surcharge from £624 to £1035. This is a flagrant attack on the right to family life, and shows how completely out of touch the government is with ordinary […]

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Strike action and the Council’s planned changes to waste collection – our response

A green bin, a black bin and a food scraps bin.

Background Recycling in South Gloucestershire was not collected last week. This was as a result of strike action by Suez over pay, and this situation will probably be repeated over the course of June and July. South Gloucestershire Council is not directly responsible for the Suez staff and therefore the dispute is outside its direct […]

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First time voters – welcome, and how you can make a difference

Next Thursday voters across the country will be going to the polls. Many, including in South Gloucestershire, will be voting for the very first time. First of all, we’d like to say a huge welcome to all those who have turned 18 since we last had an election in this area. You probably have a […]

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