Channel 4 have just screened our Political Slot film . (See Utube video slot on right)

In the original film, Siân (mayoral candidate for London) explained how Greens on the London Assembly won a big pay rise for cleaners in the Fire Brigade by using their power of the Mayor’s budget to create the London Living Wage Unit.

But Channel 4 apparantly didn’t want you to see that. So they cut it out.

They were happy to let us tell you about how we’ve introduced a scheme to provide advice on greening your home, and how we’ve won funding to increase the amount and quality of green space in East London. And those are great achievements - but why is it that we’re not allowed to tell you that there’s more to Green politics than the environment?

You can see the full, 'uncensored' broadcast at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSSjGnj6g7k

Fortunately, not everyone wants to stop us fighting poverty pay - organisations including the NUS, Unite, UNISON, the Fawcett Society, and Oxfam have made Siân a Patron of the new Fair Pay Network, to be launched on Monday. Keep checking http://www.sianformayor.org.uk/from next week for more details on that campaign, and on how to join in.

It would be interesting to know why Channel 4 omitted this but it' s given us another opportunity to highlight the fact that we are not just a party of the environment.

Derek