The Hackney Liberal Democrats have selected Ben Mathis to stand as their candidate for the Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency at the upcoming General Election on December 12th.

As Jeremy Corbyn positions himself as ‘neutral’ on the most pressing political issue facing us in recent history, we look back at just some of the times the Labour leadership have failed on Brexit.

More than a million people have so far signed an official petition opposing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plans to shut down Parliament in September and prevent MPs from taking action to prevent a No Deal Brexit. Over 11,000 people in Hackney have signed the petition so far.

The Liberal Democrats are celebrating today after an extremely strong showing in the European elections.
Irina Von Wiese, Dinesh Dhamija and Luisa Porritt have been elected as London’s new Liberal Democrat MEPs where the party beat Labour overall, topping the poll in the capital.

Brexit is a national embarrassment.

And while they're trying to keep their position on Brexit as vague as possible, Labour has aided the Tories in pushing it through every step of the way. They're a pro-Brexit party.

In fact, we did some digging. The Labour whip has instructed parliamentarians to abstain or vote with the Tory government on 29 Brexit votes. These include:

• Voting with the government on 6 occasions for pushing ahead with Brexit and abstaining in a further 23 important votes.
• 1 time Labour MPs abstained on preventing a no-deal Brexit.
• A key vote on 14 March to have a People’s Vote on the Brexit deal. Labour stopped this happening.
• 5 times Labour abstained on keeping the UK in the EU single market and/or customs union, and 1 time they voted against it.
• 1 time Labour peers abstained on safeguarding the rights of EU citizens in the UK.
• There were 10 votes on the EU (Withdrawal) Bill in 2017 and 2018 in which the Labour party abstained.

A German-born lawyer, the daughter and granddaughter of refugees, will lead the Liberal Democrats' London list in Euro elections now scheduled for May 23rd.

Hackney Lib Dem’s accuse the Town Hall of not taking the problem of fly-tipping seriously as the council admit to losing track of the figures for a whole year.

Last week, following pressure from the Hackney Liberal Democrats , Hackney Council finally debated and passed a Brexit motion at the full council meeting.

Good news right? Well not really.

The Liberal Democrats have again urged Meg Hillier to back a People’s Vote on the final Brexit deal.

The Liberal Democrats have called on local Labour MPs Meg Hillier and Diane Abbott to publicly back a People’s Vote on the Brexit deal.