Listen to the original broadcast at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0clcztt Helen Jones: And also listening to that is Councillor Jo Bird who is part of the Wirral Council. She represents the Bromborough ward, which includes areas under the disposal zone. I’m delighted to say Cllr Bird is with us this afternoon. Welcome to the afternoon show first of […]
Cllr Jo Bird – ‘Five things I’ve learnt since joining the Green Party’
Thanks to Bright Green for posting this article detailing our new councillor Jo Bird’s thoughts since joining the Green Party. I joined the Green Party in March, three months ago. I feel happy about that every day. We share our commitment to social and environmental justice. What have I learned from my experience on the […]
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llrs Cleary and Bird make urgent case for Wirral Council to go further and faster in protecting our environment
You can watch the full meeting via the council portal here. […]
Tory Party faces questions over £3.6m unaccounted for in 2019 election
Given how hard Wirral Green Party works to make sure our election expenses are all above board, we find this article quite staggering! The Conservative Party is facing questions over more than £3.6m it spent in the run-up to the 2019 general election without explaining what it paid for. Researchers from the International Institute for […]
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Labour, Tories and LibDems join forces to block Real Living Wage in Wirral as only Greens back anti-poverty measure
Labour, Tory and LibDem councillors have voted not even to consider the issue of paying the Real Living Wage to all workers delivering Wirral Council services. Twenty-three local authorities in England pay the ‘RLW’ to contractors and staff working for outsourced providers too. But in Wirral borough on Merseyside, two years after all parties agreed to pay the Real […]
Only Green councillors vote to support Real Living Wage for all workers
The Real Living Wage of £9.90 an hour is not paid to all our workers delivering council services. Our communities are suffering from in-work poverty and a cost of living crisis. At Policy & Resources Committee on 8 June, Cllr Jo Bird proposed that a further report be submitted to the Policy & Resources committee, […]
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Socialist Telly – Wirral Green cllrs Jo Bird, Harry Gorman and Jason Walsh on Green politics and why they outperformed Labour last week
From the archive – memories of the first Green council win!
Back in 2014 Wirral Green Party celebrated it’s first victory when Pat Cleary won his seat in Birkenhead and Tranmere. 8 years later and we now have 9 Green councillors. What next? Thanks to the member who sent this through to us. Great memories! […]
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Recent roundup – post election success
7th May – The Post A remarkable Green surge on the Wirral https://www.livpost.co.uk/p/still-growing-a-remarkable-green?r=1en71p&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email 6th May – Wirral TUC Statement on local election results https://www.facebook.com/WirralTuc/posts/366906498799428 6th May – Green World Local council elections 2022: Green gains across the country https://greenworld.org.uk/article/local-council-elections-2022-green-gains-across-country 6th May – The Globe Local elections 2022: Wirral’s Greens celebrate a successful night with a number of gains […]
A remarkable Green surge on the Wirral
“People see us all year round,” says Judith Grier, the newly elected Green councillor for Bebington who romped home with 53% of the vote on Thursday. Litter and road safety are the issues that put her in office, she says. These sound like the perennials of local politics, but they form a bigger picture too […]