Category: Civil liberties

Government, the police and intelligence services are too easily given sweeping powers that they too often abuse.

Jenny works with campaigners to defend our civil liberties. She has worked on legislation like the Investigatory Powers Bill, raised the cases of victims of state power such as detained pregnant women, and defended the right to protest.

National Bargee Traveller Association

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Last week Jenny sponsored an event in Parliament for the National Bargee Traveller Association.

The National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) is a volunteer organisation that campaigns and provides advice for itinerant boat dwellers – “Bargee Travellers” – on Britain’s inland and coastal waterways. This includes anyone whose home is a boat and who does not have a permanent mooring for their boat with planning permission for residential use. Continue reading “National Bargee Traveller Association” →

Imprisonment for Public Protection Bill

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We cannot say that we have a justice system if we have an innate injustice such as this. The sentencing and continued imprisonment of IPP prisoners has just been cruel. We Greens are well aware that prison is overused as a tool of justice. Far too many people are imprisoned, when there are much more effective ways of rehabilitation or stopping reoffending. Continue reading “Imprisonment for Public Protection Bill” →

Drax Power Limited: Ofgem Investigation

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Reform of the House of Lords

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Labour’s plan to axe peers there by birth is a blunt instrument. Only a fully elected second chamber will give us true democracy, without it the House will remain undemocratic, overcrowded, dominated by silly archaic practices and unrepresentative of the British population. We need a second chamber that is representative of the regions, elected by a form of proportional representation and operating in a modern parliamentary building Continue reading “Reform of the House of Lords” →

Keeping Labour honest

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Jenny aims to keep Labour honest! Pushing the government to provide proper funding for their new Anti-corruption Covid Commissioner in order to expose the true extent of corruption in Britain over last 14 years and the need for democratic safeguards. She says ‘it’s very important to clean up properly, corruption has to be seen as something that will be called out AND punished’.

Read the whole debate here