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  • "Steve 1234 suffers from selective blindness. Has he not followed the saga of the Bedroom Tax and which Party tried to stop evictions by SDC? That was the Green Party, unsupported by Labour. Indeed, it was Philip who insisted that there were extra meetings to thrash out the issue, much to the annoyance of the Labour chair.
    Unless Labour supporters are still using the woods, I think getting the sewers relined is probably as important to them as anyone else. And what of the work Philip has done on housing standards and fuel poverty. Do you think that might have benefited lower income people more than the better off home owners?
    A cllrs job is to work in the interests of all their constituents.
    But c'mon Steve, give up the pretence that the Labour Party is the party of the poor or the workers. Balls wont renounce austerity. Miliband never backs a strike even when it's been voted for by members. Their policies are Just like the Tories and Lib Dems. They are an electoral machine aiming for power through marginal seats. First past the post, status quo, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, which will it be. Boring, grey parties.."
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Green Party councillor Philip Booth to step-down at May's local elections

12:02pm Monday 3rd March 2014 in News

Stroud News and Journal: Stroud District Councillor Philip Booth will step-down after serving eight years on the authority (4351435) Stroud District Councillor Philip Booth will step-down after serving eight years on the authority (4351435)

GREEN Party district councillor Philip Booth has announced that he will be standing down as the elected representative for the Randwick, Whiteshill and Ruscombe ward at local elections this May.

The local Green Party politician, who runs a popular blog, @Ruscombe Green, which provides information and insight about various community projects in the Five Valleys, will step down after eight years of service on Stroud District Council.

Jonathan Edmunds, a sports development officer whose children go to Randwick School, has been chosen to contest Cllr Booth’s seat when it becomes vacant in May.

He was selected as the Green’s candidate at the party’s AGM on February 25.

In a statement, Mr Edmunds, said he was ‘honoured and delighted’ to be put forward for the elections.

“Philip Booth is a big act to follow for all that he has achieved over the last eight years and the esteem in which he is held by local people.

“I am looking forward to engaging with the people of this wonderful ward and having the chance to persuade them that the Green Party continues to have the ideas, policies and values to improve the quality of their lives.”

Cllr Booth said: "I am delighted that Greens have selected Jonathan Edmunds, who is such a strong candidate committed to our local community.

“There are certainly challenges ahead and now more than ever we need Green politicians. I will be giving him my full support in the campaign ahead."

"I am stepping down to spend more time on several community projects and with family, but I have no less passion for building stronger communities and a greener, more just future.

“I would like to thank all who have supported me over the last 8 years as District councillor. It has been a pleasure and quite genuinely, an honour, to have served this community.

“It is also great to see that by working with others, the pledges I made in election leaflets, have all been fulfilled.

“These include a ward-wide 20mph, new allotments, sewers relined in the ward, an energy strategy for the council, Stroud's Council Housing Standard developed with tenants and the £12m invested in renewables and fuel poverty on council housing."

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