A special welcome to all the new members who joined in after our fantastic national and local results!
Forthcoming meetings
Action Day – Saturday 23 November
We will have another Action Day in Telegraph Hill. Once again our base will be the excellent Hill Station Café, Kitto Rd, London SE14 5TW. It is a short walk from Brockley Station in the East and Nunhead in the West. Join us any time from 11.00 – 15.00 for one or two hours leafleting or 60-second surveying.
The last Action Day in Telegraph Hill got an excellent response from residents there, so we need to keep up the momentum. Please come if you can.
Monthly meeting – Tuesday 26 November
Our November monthly meeting is titled Managing the Manifesto. We want to start the process of reviewing and renewing all our policies ahead of the 2026 local elections. With food, and maybe even a glass of something, we will meet in small groups to develop our policies and how they apply to Lewisham. Some initial topics are: house rentals, education, social care, policing, litter and fly-tipping, rubbish removal, council administration. We know that as members you have a deep fund of information on Lewisham and how it should be run, so please come along.
The meeting will start with food at 19.00, adding discussions at 19.30. The formal part will finish at 21.00, but there will be chat and clearing up until 21.30.
The meeting is at a new venue, Ackroyd Community Centre, Ackroyd Road, SE23 1DL. The nearest station is Honor Oak Park. Buses that run nearby are the P4, P12, 122, 171, 172, 185. Get off at Brockley Rise or Duncombe Hill.
Happy campaign memories…
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Our Policies
Only Greens have a record of speaking up for action strong enough to tackle the climate change emergency.
Greens are passionate about building a country where everyone has a good quality of life.
Community is at the heart of everything Greens do.
🏡 Putting residents first – regularly speaking to and listening to residents through surveys on your doorstep
🚲 Healthy Streets – support for cyclists, pedestrians and public transport, school streets and clean air
🏢 Renters’ rights – we’ll use the new landlord register to improve housing and ban rogue landlords
🏠 Insulating housing – retrofit for all types of housing, reducing energy bills and carbon emissions.
❤ Primary and community care provision – give health and the NHS the priority they need
♻ Waste and Recycling – phase out single-use plastic in council buildings, improve Lewisham’s low recycling rate (27%)
🚮 Reducing fly tipping – identifying hotspots, increasing preventative measures, and making it easier to dispose of large waste
LATEST NEWS
Campaign for the London Mayor and London Assembly members!
A brief analysis for Lewisham Green Party:
Deptford by-election 2nd May 2024
Green 944 (28%)
Labour 2642 (79%)
This is a creditable result for a paper candidate, and we are a very clear second, but it remains an incredibly solid Labour ward.
London Mayor and Assembly 2nd May 2024/
Greenwich and Lewisham results:
| London Mayor | Constituency | Assembly (PR/London wide) | |
| Green | 7% | 28294 17.6% | 24248 15.1% |
| Labour | 52% | 80101 49.7% | 73773 46% |
| Conservative | 22% | 25960 16.1% | 25826 16.1% |
These results indicate a lot of people were squeezed into voting Labour for fear of Conservative in the Mayoral election, but they understood to vote Green for the assembly. They also indicate a personal vote for Karin Tearle, our candidate, as she has been campaigning very visibly. But not all those who voted for Karin voted Green under the pr section.
Distribution of Lewisham Vote
There is an opportunity during the verification process to observe the ballot boxes being opened by ward (but not by voting district, as there are 5-7 in each ward, and these do not include postal votes). We counted several hundred ballots in ten wards .
This is a table of the ratio of Green to Labour ie an expression of the gap between us:
| Ward | Number of ballots observed | Ratio Green to Labour |
| Ladywell | 178 | 0.84 |
| Telegraph hill | 186 | 0.84 |
| Evelyn | 128 | 0.75 |
| Lee Green | 63 | 0.65 |
| Crofton Park | 196 | 0.54 |
| Brockley | 51 | 0.54 |
| Blackheath | 114 | 0.50 |
| Hither Green | 131 | 0.50 |
| Lew Central | 107 | 0.46 |
| Forest Hill | 131 | 0.45 |
Please view these figures sceptically! The ballot boxes we managed to observe are not necessarily ‘typical’ of that ward. Some counting agents empty the boxes in a visible way, others cover the ballots (they have no obligation to be helpful). Finally there are special factors in this election (the squeeze, the need to kick the Tories) which may not translate into future campaigns for Lewisham borough.
Nevertheless it illustrates what we already know – our vote is consistently half or more Labour’s, never more, and it is a bit more concentrated in the west.
Tim Crossley
Website hosted by the Green Party, Lewisham PO Box 78066 London SE16 9GQ
PALESTINE
Greens are rightly proud that we have been at the forefront of demands for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and Callum Fowler, prospective Green Party parliamentary candidate for Lewisham West and Dulwich, speaking at a rally in the market to express our view.
