A special welcome to all the new members who joined in after our fantastic national and local results!
Forthcoming meetings
Our next branch meeting on the 22nd of October is an exciting opportunity to hear about the recent work of the inclusion and diversity working group and to talk about your ideas about for how we can improve our internal processes and how we engage with the local community!
Tuesday October 22nd from 19:00, at the Jubilee Room, St Laurence Church, 37 Bromley Rd, London SE6 2TS. The meeting will be both face to face and virtual.
In the meeting, we’ll be playing back the ideas we’ve already worked on, such as a new member pack, a new-joiner phone-banking script, a buddy system and more. Most importantly however, we want to hear from you about your ideas for making the Lewisham Green Party more inclusive and diverse so we can build our party and win councillors in the coming elections.
Timing:
· 19.00 – Meet and eat. There will be food and drink.
· 19.30 – Meeting starts
· 21.00 – Formal part of the meeting finishes, chance to chat.
· 21.30 – Finish
Location:
· The Jubilee Room, St Laurence Centre, 37 Bromley Road, Catford, SE6 2TS
· Nearest rail stations: Catford or Catford Bridge (10 minute walk)
· Bus routes: 47,54,75,124,136,160,171,181,185,199,202,208,284,320,336,660,N136,N171,N199. Alight at Lewisham Town Hall (3 minute walk from Church)
As previously we will set up a Zoom link, which will be sent out nearer the time.
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.
