Some of the Green candidates standing in the May local election (Credit: Nick Woollard)
Brent Green Party launched its campaign for the Brent Council May Election on Sunday full of the joys of Spring following Hannah Spencer's amazing Manchester by-election win. They could not have chosen a better time to get motivated to win as many seats as possible on May 7th.
Amanda Alexandre, Green candidate for Harlesden and Kensal Green ward, said:
Since the election of Hannah Spencer, we have received many heartfelt congratulations from residents across the borough - on the street, at the cafe, on the allotment. Our membership has also increased to over 700 and more than £350 in donations have been donated to our crowdfunding campaign since Friday. All this support has unlocked a new level of ambition for Brent Green Party for the elections of May 7th
The launch began with speeches from some of the candidates explaining why they were standing for the Greens:
This was followed by training in canvassing for the many members who are new to politics and knocking on doors for the first time. There was lots of enthusiasm for getting started with a number of Action Days taking place across the target wards in the weeks ahead.
Stressing the participative nature of Green Party politics, members then broke into small groups to share ideas for the upcoming Brent Green Manifesto with the emphasis on fresh and imaginative policies. This produced some very animated discussion as can be seen from the photographs of excited participants below:
Credit: Nick Woollard
Children were welcomed to the event and enjoyed badge making and drawing, and the food and drinks of course.
It was a friendly and convivial gathering with lots of new connections made as well as old friendships consolidated, boding well for the challenge ahead.
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Mary is the only one among them with a consistent record; the others were deselected by the Labour Party. None appear likely to be re-elected in May, as they lack a personal following. Mary intends not to stand in Welsh Harp in May, reportedly due to minimal engagement in that area.
Good, let’s have a full slate and everyone have the opportunity of voting Green, to stop reform.
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This is brilliant.
It's more about taking as many seats as possible away from Labour.
Do you think that any Brent residents in their right mind would vote for Reform??
Reform are only abswer in Brent now, after all the corruption needs a clean sweep
The record of our elected politicians in Brent is the problem. The former labour cllrs have shown by becoming green they want resl change locally. Do you?
Humidity is rising (mmm rising)
Labour’s polling is getting low (How low, girl?) (uh-oh)
According to all sources (What sources, now?)
Greens the place to go (We'd better hurry up)
Cause in may for the first time
When polls close after half-past ten
For the first time in history
Brent’s gonna start electing Greens!
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700 members is a real movement!
I hear that is similar to Labour locally!
Thats definitely not what residents are saying on the doors,they want an end to bent brent
Depends on your doors. Im sure we will see both reform and green councillors elected in Brent.
The reform party in brent is there putely at residents demand for a better, more transparent council,, look up the definition of Reform, it means “specifically to change for the better” which is what Brent needs.
You hearing is at issue then labour has many more than that as do every other major party, including Reform, but they don't sing and dance about it, they just get on with the work in the borough
3 March 2026 at 16:26 How little you understand, or don’t want to. Being deselected by the Labour Party is now a badge of honour and can be worn proudly. The deselected councillors do have strong followings and are likely to depose Labour at the coming council elections. As for the new Labour candidates, who are they, why were they chose, what following do they have? From what residents see, they are nobodies who have been parachuted into the Borough and are treated as such. Lets face it, the option polls are telling the story of what residents think of Labour who are now in third place and could even be force into fifth place at the rate they are performing.
Harlesden to Wormwood Great Park cable car (or foot tunnel) fast transit taking in on its route Willesden Junction Station, the rail yards OPDC car-free housing many towers and Old Oak Common to be Britain's biggest railway station (from which Harlesden Old Town is currently kept access excluded). £14 million well spent, especially given that Harlesden has Britain's most polluted high street.
We know already that Labour/Georgia Gould in Cabinet will not champion this green public transport major infrastructure investment in Brent car-free tower hundreds land.
Add, Greens to protect all remaining green space in Brent. Car-free towers zones with access to nature and sunlight near homes.
Actual policies targeted will get the votes. Conservation zones is a bit of a limited policy and is certainly not in the Brent wide public interest/ public good.
Brent 2026 needs to break through on its entire southern boundary. Break through and into social inclusion in the serious opportunities being grown in its neighbouring boroughs at massive UK taxpayer expense.
Old Oak Common Station being only one such opportunity that Brent lives are being excluded from by bad growth/reform policy decision maker rule.
Fairer Westminster has seen massive upgrade investments to its green spaces and urban villages. All except that is, Chippenham Gardens (which is in effect Maida Vale's biggest urban village where 11 routes converge) and Queens Park (kept a developer no-mans land for 11 years), both are shared urban villages across borough boundary between Westminster and South Kilburn, Brent. Both are Labour councils ,./;^^*(
South Kilburn regeneration year 25 and clearly zero co-ordination between Labour boroughs. Do the Greens communicate across borough boundaries and give urban equalities a life chance? South Kilburn folk don't know what their crime is and why the harsh adverse discrimination/ shut-out continues?
Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems certainly don’t have over 1000 members each locally. I would suggest Green membership exceeds Conservatives and Lib Dems. Whilst Labour is around 920.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/fifth-of-reform-members-want-non-white-britons-removed-from-uk/ar-AA1Xtm8r?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=69a8926462964812bf56abaaf0750552&ei=14
Reform is the dustbin for former NF and BNP idiots.
When voting in the May LOCAL elections make sure you all read what each party and candidate promises to do LOCALLY.
This election in May is NOT about national or international issues.
It is about LOCAL issues and how your hard earned council tax is spent on vital LOCAL servIces.
Believe actually standing quoting the record and achievements of deselected forebear as if they were their own.
Believe local one at least actually standing quoting the record and achievements of deselected, now Green, as if they were their own
It should be about local issues yet a flag relating to issues thousands of miles away is prominently displayed.
Iran being ignored where it is reported that as many civilians were killed in a few days as total including combatants in a 2 year war is very revealing. (Nevermind, much larger scale ongoing atrocities around the world)
The Brent conservation areas first vote is highly congested.
The Brent shut-out from welfare state investment and infrastructure, green investment, civic rights excluded because of massive population growth zoned, is where the votes are. Polanski has grasped that.
Lol! Of course local elections are a reflection of national politics.
Some of us will punish labour locally, because they are inept, yes. But majority will be voting against labour as we all hate starmer. Reform voters will also be voting as they cant stop the boats nationally and we are not blind to full hotels locally
Behave, there are more of the global majority and women in positions of power in Reform than there is Labour. Have you seen Laila Cunningham? She says herself calling her islamophobic for criticising sadiq khan wont wash anymore. Try harder
Did you see who did that poll? Hope not hate which are hardly impartial
The Greens should pledge that they will connect Brent's south border bad growth lands to London's core wealth boroughs- South Kilburn to City of Westminster/ Kensal to Kensington/ Old Oak Common (Britain's biggest station) to Harlesden Old Town.
Brent is not North Korea. Only Polanski thinks that at the moment, so GREEN harvest those votes for actual change away from the entrenched cosy politics of exclusionary bad growth UK.
Zooming out. Would be strange for a diverse UK to jump two footed into a Middle East Imperial adventure, when the Russian War Economy is already four years into Empire building in Europe.
Free free palestine
Starmer announcing now an end of governments brutal and inhuman brownfield estates policy would hopefully bring some of the outer London estates England flags down.
No more votes for councillor/MP total ignore once elected?
National and international policies should not effect how we local people vote in local elections.
For national and international issues you should lobby your MP so that they can put pressure on the Prime Minister directly, lobby other MPs directly and also so raise the issue in Parliamentary debates.
For years people in Brent have voted Labour in local elections in protest at the Tory government but voting Labour in LOCAL elections didn't get rid of PM David Cameron, PM Teresa May, PM Boris Johnson or PM Rishi Sunak in government - the Tories in government were finally voted out in a NATIONAL election!
Voting Labour in local elections just meant we ended up with a majority Labour run council which has ruined our borough whilst ignoring the concerns of us residents regarding local issues.
Senior Labour politicians across London have warned the government not to take progressive voters for granted, with concerns the party faces a “political earthquake” in the capital in May after a surge in support for the Greens.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/06/labour-urged-listen-progressive-voters-or-face-political-earthquake-london
- not any chance of labour doing anything progressive in brent. Have they ever done one thing which makes brent special from a progressive perspective?
I hope the greens are standing in Queensbury. I need an alternative to vote for.
Greens have problems fielding enough candidates for May 7.
End inequalities zones, every Londoner is human. Judge Brent by its most neglected park, its most fly-tipped street, its neighbourhoods NOT being feudal tower lorded over as brownfield land and work on civil and human rights from these Brent social abuse low points.
Green actual socialists would shake the cosy political consensus in place since 1979.
Don’t worry, there is not any reason from a local, through to regional, national or international perspective to vote labour.
And yet crying that they were forced to vote as the party said, so either they voted fir it or as they say they were made to, either way, they rarely voted as their conciense dictated, so whats so different now
They have 700 members
The Greens should pitch on May 7th.....
Harlesden to Wormwood Great Park cable car fast (bikes allowed) transit taking in on its 400 metre route- stops at Willesden Junction Station, at on railway yard islands of OPDC car-free housing packed-in towers, at Harlesden Canalside (in OPDC) and at Old Oak Common (to be Britain's biggest railway station). All of which Harlesden Old Town is currently kept Tory-Reform-Labour urban policy access denied excluded.
This new cable car would be £14 million well spent, especially given that Harlesden has Britain's most polluted high street. Each journey the price of a bus fare.
Of course this policy is copying cable cars rapid transit/ de-congest before tower growth policy in Paris. Progressive, regressive, who cares, its actual good change that is needed, let Harlesden breath, be green, be free and de-congest.
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