Cabbages and Kings: Lambeth By election

Friday 22 May 2009

Lambeth By election

I am standing for election in the Princes Ward by election in Lambeth on June 4th. I will be out in the ward tomorrow leafleting. We meet at the Dog House pub in Kennington Road @ 10.30am for leafleting the ward. Map details here http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/pubsandbars/dog-house-maps-11208.html

The picture is the old town hall in Kennington Road circa 1925.

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About Joseph

Joseph Healy stood as the Green Party's Parliamentary Candidate for Vauxhall at the last general election.

Joseph was also Number 4 on the Green Party's European list in London.

He was Male Co-Convenor of Green Left, the ecosocialist, anti-capitalist platform within the Green Party, for two years and was the Secretary for the last year. He is an officer of Coalition of Resistance, the leading anti-cuts campaigning organisation. He resigned from the Green Party this February in protest against the Green Council in Brighton & Hove voting through budget cuts.

He has also been recently elected as the Treasurer of Queers Against the Cuts.

He was also the Green Party's delegate to the Stop the War Coalition and an active anti-war campaigner.

He is an active trade unionist and a member of UNITE.

He was working for four years as director of a Pan London disability charity in Brixton (Transport for All) campaigning for better accessible transport for disabled people and is himself disabled. He currently works for Lambeth's main disability organisation, Disability Advice Service Lambeth on a part time basis.

After having been Vice Chair of the London Ambulance Service Patients Forum, the largest public and patient involvement group in the NHS, he was elected Chair in 2010 and re-elected Chair in 2011.

He was also active as a pioneer in the LGBT rights movement in the Irish Republic in the 70s and early 80s and has campaigned strongly in London on issues connected with HIV and health.

Joseph lives in Camberwell with his partner and his cat.

You can follow me on twitter @Verde1957

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Friday 22 May 2009

Lambeth By election

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