Event: Green MEP joins Islington Pensioners' Forum European Elections Panel
Place: Islington Town Hall
Time: Thursday, Thursday April 15th, 10.30am-12 Noon
GREEN EURO-MP BIDS FOR 'GREY VOTE' AT PENSIONERS' PANEL
GREEN Party MEP Jean Lambert bids for the influential 'grey vote' tomorrow when she joins rivals from other main political parties on a European
Elections Panel organised by the Islington Pensioners Forum.
Mrs Lambert, London Euro-MP and co-president of the European Parliament's all-party group on Ageing, will tell the Islington Town Hall meeting that a
vote for the Green Party is a vote for the party's 'Pensioners' Pledge' to
guarantee a decent state pension for all, scrap means testing for pensioners and fight age discrimination in the workplace.
"More than two thirds of Britain's 11 million pensioners live in poverty - many more face discrimination, decaying public services, poor public
transport and a failing NHS," said Mrs Lambert, who is