Your candidates in Clissold
George Sheldon Grün
George has lived in Hackney since childhood, brought up by six queer parents and enjoying the incredible parks, vibrant play spaces, strong sense of community, and brilliant local venues and businesses in Clissold Ward. George works in Legal Aid representing vulnerable people seeking justice, including asylum seekers, victims of trafficking, and those in prison, holding power to account. He would bring that experience as a caseworker to serve constituents, while fighting to make the borough greener, more just, and more democratic.
George says, “I believe in Green values of hope, stewardship and solidarity, and I would work to ensure every resident is heard, without fear or favour.”
Sam Mathys
Sam Mathys has spent 20 years running small businesses including two local pubs in Stokey, worked for Hackney Council delivering operational and regulatory services with the Hackney Nights program and currently works at the Greater London Authority as a Senior Policy Officer. A Hackney resident for over 10 years, she offers a rare combination of frontline community experience and deep policy expertise. She understands the realities facing small businesses, and the role of shared public spaces in community life. Sam has the passion and persistence to serve residents through case work, and the strategic expertise to scrutinise public policy.
She says, “I would work hard for constituents translating political priorities into practical action, challenging inertia, navigating institutional systems, and resolving issues and broken communication that sit between departments and people.”
Working together for Clissold ward
What we are building here is historic for Hackney, and rare elsewhere too. Two groups working together with a shared local message, choosing collaboration over confrontation, because Hackney needs action, not political point scoring. Our Green Councillors have worked closely with Cllr Fliss Premru from the Hackney Independent Socialist Collective (HISC) for two years at the Town Hall.
We are not the same party, and we won’t always agree on everything. We work together where we have common ground, and are open and honest with residents about where we differ.
For the May 2026 local elections in Clissold Ward, we are proud to stand alongside Fliss and ask for your support for them as part of a team dedicated to real change.
Fliss Premru, a lifelong Londoner, trade unionist, transport and environmental campaigner, has been part of the community in Clissold/Stoke Newington for 26 years where her daughter attended Grazebrook and Stoke Newington schools.
A former curator working for TfL, she joined local gentrification and academisation struggles, and took a deputation to the Hackney Council about the lack of affordable community spaces during the second occupation at the old Vortex Jazz club site.
Elected in 2022, since leaving the Labour Party over the genocide in Gaza, its authoritarianism and abandonment of its working class base, Fliss and has been excited about setting up People's Forums to explore genuine local democracy – how to get residents power in Hackney - working in a progressive alliance with the Green Party to make Hackney a great place for everyone.
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