Low traffic neighbourhoods are key to a safer, cleaner Islington - and must be introduced immediately, insist local Liberal Democrats.

Listening to people across Islington, these are long term positives for us all that could come out of the awful COVID crisis - if we are determined to make change happen. 

This is why we put a series of questions to Labour Council leader Richard Watts in his Facebook Live broadcast (Friday May 22). He didn’t directly answer any of them! So we are repeating them in this article.

The Liberal Democrats are calling for EU citizens to be given the automatic right to stay in the UK, as new official figures show 14,490 EU nationals living in Islington have not been granted permanent Settled Status to remain in the UK.

A letter to the Islington Gazette from Liberal Democrat Flora Page.

It is an outrage that Claudia Webbe is still pocketing an Islington councillor's allowance, paid for by Islington council tax payers, when she now earns £81,900 per year as an MP in Leicester.

"In the last few weeks I have joined in the London wide campaign led by Siobhan Benita of ‘Calling with Kindness’. Liberal Democrats across the city reaching out beyond our membership to our neighbours to check that people are aware of the support and advice that might be available to them and perhaps just to have a chat.

December 2019’s General Election saw Brexit inflicted on us all. Johnson’s Tories got well under half votes cast; as in the May European elections, Remain parties got more combined votes than Leavers. But under our distorted, unequal election system, Johnson’s minority vote got a big majority of seats. And so Brexit is happening - and Johnson has given himself just none months to finalise a trade agreement between the UK and the EU.

The Council wants to rebuild on 38 sites around Bunhill. The trouble is: they aren’t talking about it... Flora, our ward champion, wants to know what you think.

Local Liberal Democrats are showing off their full election manifesto on three billboards at the busy junction of Caledonian and MacKenzie Roads.

“Whether it’s addressing the climate emergency, making our streets safe or getting the nightmare of Brexit stopped, it’s all there,” said Kate Pothalingam, Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Islington South and Finsbury. 

The Liberal Democrats have a detailed Election Manifesto that shows how we will stop Brexit and build a brighter future.

If we win the December 12 General Election, we will end the Brexit mess by revoking Article 50, so we remain in the European Union.

Then we can all get on with investing in better schools, health and our environment - with building a brighter future.

People deserve better than Boris Johnson’s No Deal Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Brexit.