Brixton Hill by-election: Liz Maffei, Liberal Democrats

By
Tim Dickens
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Liz Maffei, Liberal Democrats

The following is a statement from the Liberal Democrat Party:

Liz Maffei is the Liberal Democrat challenger to Labour in the Brixton Hill by-election – about thousand votes closer than the other parties. At the last election the results were:
Steve Reed (Labour) 2699 – now resigned.
Top Liberal Democrat 2100
Top Green 1108
Top Conservative 873
Liz is 33 and has just finished a successful contract with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games as Procurement and Commercial Manager. After studying at Bristol University, Liz spent time in Ghana and Nepal teaching and has helped out volunteering with homeless and medical charities.
Liz is passionate about reducing the gap between rich and poor people in London where she lives on a local estate. She took a leading role in the “My Fair London” campaign (www.myfairlondon.org.uk) earlier this year influencing policy makers to adopted fairer pay policies.
Liz says that residents in Brixton Hill now need a local councillor who will listen to their concerns and argue for fairness at the Town Hall. She knows that local people don’t want £30million spent on a new “Campus” Town Hall project when there is investment needed in local homes, schools and streets. She will fight the council’s coming rent rise which could be as much as twice the rate of inflation.
Liz says, “Lambeth under Labour has cut funding for school crossing patrols, Brixton Library and home care services for vulnerable elderly people. Yet at the same time they have spent money refurbishing the Town Hall, creating a new car park for senior council staff and launching new glossy magazines promoting the council. Only the Liberal Democrats can challenge Labour in Brixton Hill and I hope to serve local people as their councillor who listens and responds to their needs.”

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5 COMMENTS

  1. i dislike intensely how the liberals are always telling us to vote tactically rather than saying how they would be any good, i dislike it even more as its often based on lies we know the liberals wont come second in that ward now as they have lost half there voters since 2010 plus the last elections held in the area were the london assembly and mayor ones last year and the greens came second in them.

  2. Tell you what Liz, I’d believe what you say if you publish a photograph of yourself holding a sign promising what you wouldn’t do. Like say raising tuition fees or something for example?

  3. I think Liz sounds like the breath of fresh air that we need! As a local resident she get’s my vote. I’m fed up with Labour telling us it is all someone elses fault while they close down our services and put up our rents. Go Liz!

    • The reason Labour are having to cut back is because the Tory led Government – of which Liz’s party is a part of – is determined to make working people pay for a banking crises brought about by decades of right wing deregulation of our banking systems and adherence to so called ‘free market’ economics and the fantasy of trickle down wealth.

  4. “Liz says, “Lambeth under Labour has cut funding for school crossing patrols, Brixton Library and home care services for vulnerable elderly people”

    Not Labours fault. Its the Tory/LS government who are forcing cuts on local Council.

    I hope the LD party is wiped out. Sooner its dead and gone the better.

    I hate Clegg

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