Some Greens, Please

Today Redbridge Council has announced that smart Electricity Monitors are available on loan from our Libraries. Good. For details see here. But other London Boroughs have been doing this for some time. In fact last years pilot study took the example set by Lewisham, (when it had several Green Party councillors), as its base. Redbridge does seem to get there in the end but it seems to follow rather than lead.

Last years introduction of kerbside green waste collection and the current pilot scheme for the collection of light cardboard packaging are both admirable. But they could have been done long ago. There just does not seem to be any enthusiasm or drive to set the scene, to be in the forefront of innovative new ways to enhance and improve the environment. It is all government target led – they do it only when they have to. So much so that Redbridge has been ranked down at the bottom of the London Borough league table for environmental achievement.

Chadwell residents now have the opportunity to change that, by voting Green at the by election on July 8th.

There is no point in voting for any of the other parties as it will not change the balance in the council chamber nor the stale ConDemLab cartel.

The Green Party now has an MP at Westminster. We have shown that a Green vote is not a wasted vote. Up and down the country, from Kirklees in Yorkshire to Stroud in Gloucester there are Green Party councillors challenging the moribund status quo of inactivity and driving the changes we so desperately need.

It’s time for Redbridge to GO GREEN.