• OUR names are Sorin Floti, Richard Olszewski, and Lorna Jane Russell, and as your Labour and Co-operative Party candidates for Fortune Green, we are staunch Remainers who stand firmly against Brexit.

Sorin is an EU citizen from Romania. If elected, he would become the first Romanian local councillor in the UK ever. Richard is of Polish origin and has an EU flag flying high in front of his home, while Lorna has close family in Germany. All three of us see ourselves not only as British but as proud Europeans.

However, we do not stop at words – we are proud to stand on our record of hard work fighting Brexit and its effects. We have campaigned against Brexit both before and after the referendum, have demanded the protection of the rights of our EU residents, and pushed for retained membership of the Single Market and Customs Union.

In Fortune Green, we co-organised a free informational event for EU nationals at Sidings Community Centre, where, together with a charity working to integrate migrants, we helped participants understand the Brexit process, their rights throughout, and what Camden Council is doing to help.

We have helped many of our EU residents register to vote and have sent a letter about their right to vote in local elections to every single one of the 1,300 who are registered.

Labour-led Camden Council has set up a cross-party Brexit Working Group to hear testimony from residents, businesses, and charities and come up with helpful recommendations.

If elected as Fortune Green councillors, we will also ensure that Camden continues to provide EU citizens with advice and support in these uncertain times, and we will support Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayor of London, with pro-European policies such as the London visa.

We think Theresa May’s “bad deal or no deal” ultimatum is unacceptable and will campaign for the People’s Vote guarantee that the final decision on any Brexit deal not be taken before democratic legitimacy has been secured.

We will campaign to ensure the rights of EU nationals to live, study, work, and vote here are protected. We want Camden to remain an inclusive community that has the closest possible relationship with Europe.

When it comes to fighting Brexit and its effects, it isn’t just about what we say, it’s about what we have done and will continue to do!

SORIN FLOTI
RICHARD OLSZEWSKI
LORNA JANE RUSSELL
Labour and Co-operative Party candidates for Fortune Green ward