This originally appeared as a blog entry on the Duchess of Hackney Blog With a less than inspiring line up, in the bid for Councillor in Hackney Central ward’s My 3rd by-election,  it’s refreshing and reassuring to know that there is someone who actually lives in Hackney Central  and is not a soulless politico prototype  [...]

Today marks the fifth aniversary of London being awarded the right, to host the 2012 Olympics, but Andrew Boff, London Assembly Conservative spokesman for the Olympics, is speaking out on the ‘emptiness’ behind the promises of a legacy for east London. Commenting, Mr Boff said:  “Five years ago, the Olympic bid presented us with an [...]

At mayors Question Time on Wednesday 9th June, London Assembly member, Andrew Boff will challenge Mayor Boris Johnson on why a transport project in east London budgeted at £39million will now cost £63m. The bus interchange, to be built over the top of the new East London Line Dalston Junction station will now cost £24m [...]

Hackney council is to carry out it’s own review into what went wrong on election night, at several polling stations on 6 May. The decision comes after the Electoral Commission announced it would be investigating why people were turned away or locked out of polling stations across the country. Results of the investigation is expected [...]

Yesterday we reported The Hackney Citizen had broken a story of what seemed like an attempt by Hackney council to mislead people into thinking there was no Conservative party member contesting the Hackney mayoral seat. Today, they are reporting the council are demanding Hackney Citizen remove the audio link of  Tory mayoral candidate – Andrew [...]

Employees at Hackney council have been telling callers that there is no Conservative candidate, standing for Mayor of Hackney in the coming elections, this according to the Hackney Citizen and Andrew Boff. The Conservative Mayoral candidates attention, was brought to this issue by ‘concerned residents’.  Only last month, Boff was told his election address would [...]

Earlier this week, Hackney’s decision to exclude Andrew Boffs election address, had the Tory mayoral candidate non too pleased with Hackney council. The conservative mayoral candidate for Hackney claims his election address which was to appear in a Mayoral election booklet, to be sent out by Hackney council to all voters, was rejected because of [...]

With local and national elections closing in on us, do you know who the mayoral candidates are for the borough of Hackney? One of the hopefuls standing against current mayor and Labour candidate, Jules Pipe, who has been in office since December 2002, is Conservative member of the London Assembly Andrew Boff, elected in the [...]