Last week, local party members met to vote for the Liberal Democrat candidates for this May’s local elections. I’m really pleased to announce that Ed Butcher and I have been re-selected, along with fantastic first-time candidate Katherine Reece. This photo is a result of a ‘photo shoot’ for the local papers which was held a few days ago. The papers are obviously very interested in the Lib Dem team that could end 40 years of Labour control of Haringey in May.
Sadly, Laura Edge decided not to re-stand, and is moving on to pastures new after more than 6 years of leading the Lib Dem revolution in Stroud Green. Laura has worked very hard to improve our area in her time as councillor and its been fatastic to work with her. Laura’s stunning by-election success in 2004 (a 29% swing from Labour) and huge re-election vote in 2006 shows just how many residents she has helped and won over to the Lib Dems.
However, Katherine is a very worthy sucessor and has already been battling the Council on issues ranging from empty homes to gritting. Please get in contact if you want to help our election campaign in any way.
April 9th, 2010 at 8:09 am
A big thank you to Laura Edge for her great work in Stroud Green — especially I want to thank her with her success in pushing for my particular hobby-horse which was getting the wretchedly inadequate drainage in Stroud Green Road repaired a few years ago against council resistance.
What a struggle that was but with Lynne’s support we managed!