Mayor Philip Glanville confirms re-election bid with pledge to build ‘a Hackney that works for everyone’

Philip Glanville.

Philip Glanville pledged to build on Labour’s record

Mayor Philip Glanville has confirmed that he will be standing for re-election in May 2018, with a promise to “build a Hackney that exceeds the rightly high expectations and aspirations of our residents”.

Glanville, who was elected Mayor of Hackney in September 2016 with 69 per cent of the vote, told the Citizen he will be running on a platform of “reducing inequality, creating opportunities for all, and investing in the homes, schools, community centres and parks”.

The Mayor, who will be the Labour Party’s candidate, was cabinet member for housing before he succeeded Jules Pipe, Hackney’s first executive Mayor, in the top job.

In a statement to the Citizen, Mayor Glanville pledged to build on the Labour council’s record on social housing, education and transport, and to campaign against central government austerity and cuts to public services.

Mayor Glanville said: “It’s an honour to be Hackney Labour’s candidate for Mayor in next year’s local elections, and I am privileged to stand alongside an incredibly talented and diverse team of Labour councillors and candidates.

“A little over a year into the job, I am just as passionate and committed to building a Hackney that genuinely works for everyone. We’ve made a great start, but we know there is still much more to do.”

He continued: “Next year’s election will be fought and won on who has the vision and experience to work with Hackney’s diverse communities to deliver a fairer and more sustainable future.

“We are ready to build a Hackney that exceeds the rightly high expectations and aspirations of our residents.

“That means reducing inequality, creating opportunities for all, and investing in the homes, schools, community centres, and parks that we need going into the future.”

The Mayor added: “With over a decade of Labour leadership, Hackney has become an outstanding example of Labour in local government, leading the way in school improvement, delivering council housing and sustainable transport.

“Going into next year’s election I take the responsibility of that example seriously, and will continue to hold the Government to account, campaigning against austerity and the cuts to public services that impact on so many in Hackney.”

2 Comments

  1. Blowfish on Friday 15 December 2017 at 16:06

    If it isn’t a borough that works for everyone now, after
    20 years of Labour, Philip Glanville aint going to make it one



  2. pixelist999 on Monday 18 December 2017 at 12:08

    No it hasn’t done anything for me in the last twenty years except destroy my home with the aid of bent planning officers/councillors/council leaders, Not have a school place for my son along with 350 other children, run a smear campaign on me for reporting the corruption that led to the destruction of my home. Mr Glanville refuses to accept there was any corruption involved, without verifying any of my charges against his criminal organisation. Glanville has continued to allow the officers involved, to provide no answers to questions that should normally be available in the public domain.
    He sees no corruption in his officers mislaying damning evidence, or deliberately providing false information to the neighbourhood committee, or repeatedly lying and changing their stories as there lies are uncovered, or running smear campaigns against members of the public who complain about their homes being destroyed, or the same officers ignoring (and mislaying) fire officers reports (because they say fire fighting operations would be put in “jeopardy”). The officers/councillors/council leaders involved were all guilty of a serious abuse of office and yet none have answered one single charge against them.
    I’d dearly love Mr Glanville to make Hackney work for me – he could start by getting all those involved to explain themselves, instead of protecting them by refusing to accept any notion of corruption. Or he could even explain why in the face of solid evidence, he refuses to accept any possibility that his council is infested with corruption. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/33be376bc9dfdd49004e877011481a1e700f4de059f2075cac0630dd3d06077f.jpg
    I guess mr Glanville feels that all of the above is not corruption and just the way his council should run – god help us all!



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