About Barry

Barry Buitekant has lived in Hackney for most of his life and went to school locally. He has been a lifelong active trade unionist in the Post Office and BT unions serving as an official locally and nationally.

After working in the book trade he is now active in local community groups such as his local park users group and is secretary of his local residents association. He believes his life experience of struggling to win issues for working people gives him a breadth of knowledge that will considerably aid him to represent the people of Haggerston.

This is an exciting time for Haggerston with the continuing regeneration of the area and the coming construction of the East London Line he says. I want to make sure local people get the full benefits of all this.