On behalf of the three Green Party Parliamentary candidates and our 70 local election candidates, may I through your letters page thank all the Croydon electorate who came out and voted on May 6th, and especially those who voted Green. The response to the televised leaders' debates clearly led to much tactical voting, yet so many of you still voted with the courage of your convictions. Hopefully with a reformed electoral system next time round, we will achieve more than just one Green Party MP at Westminster.
Thanks are also due to the Electoral Services staff at the Town Hall. They had two major elections to manage simultaneously and worked all hours of the day and night to ensure their smooth running, whilst remaining unfailingly helpful and courteous.
Yours sincerely
Bernice Golberg Croydon Green Party Election Agent
The Green Party in Croydon has been advised that Veolia is engaged in illegal activity in OccupiedPalestinianTerritory.
Veolia has entered into contracts to provide bus and tramway transport to link the colonised settlements to the Israeli sector of Jerusalem and has undertaken additional services including refuse disposal to a site in the JordanValley. The success and profitability of the contracts is predicated on the illegal colonisation of Occupied Palestinian territory; and the Israeli plan to colonize East Jerusalem and environs is dependant upon the provision of services provided by Veolia. Bus services 109 and 110 serve Israeli settlements along Israeli-only route 443 and the planned ‘Jerusalem Tramway’ is to be built on Palestinian land to serve Israeli settlements, existing and planned, to provide Israeli-only transportation within the planned Israeli ‘Greater Jerusalem’. The Tovlan waste management site is on Palestinian land and is projected to handle the waste from the expanding and projected increasing illegal Israeli colonies of ‘Greater Jerusalem’.
Green Party candidate for Croydon Central Bernice Golberg said:
“Arguably, global security is significantly dependent on a peaceful and lasting solution between Palestine and Israel.Most recently, the focus has been on the Israeli settlements. In East Jerusalem Israeli authorities are increasingly inviting international condemnation by expelling Palestinians from areas in East Jerusalem and expanding the new Israeli city eastwards towards the Jordanian border.
Bernice continued
“If it has been established that Veolia is engaged in illegal activity, the Green Party finds it inappropriate that council taxpayers should be actively supporting a company actively engaged in the colonisation of the Occupied West Bank which even the United States now condemns for being an “obstacle to peace”.
Veolia currently have the waste disposal contract with Croydon council and are on the shortlist for the new South London Waste Incinerator.
Under Public Contract Regulations 2006, section 23 (4)(e), contractors found to have “committed an act of grave misconduct in the course of his business or profession” should be precluded from tendering for public contracts.”
