An optimistic London Green Party hopes to build on its 2012 mayoral election successes with a vision for community-led change.
Londons Green Party picked the humble community corridor of the West Kensington housing estate as the location for announcing that Camden councillor Sian Berry will be their mayoral candidate for 2106. It was the perfect setting for them. The “West Ken” and its neighbour Gibbs Green face demolition as part of the wider Earls Court Project,a enormous redevelopment scheme that comprehensively exemplifies the worst approaches to regeneration” in the capital. The Greens are right to strongly oppose it.
Yet this very opposition focuses a large question for Green politics in London as a whole. The city’s economy is strengthening, its population is booming. It needs more jobs, or more transport capacity and more homes. It needs to grow. If what’s happening in Earls Court is the unsuitable way for London to meet those needs,what does Berry’s party mediate is the right way? Are Greens keen on the concept of economic growth at all, and, or if so,what would the Green variety be like if Berry took command of City corridor?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com