Tag Archives: Barwell
“We will reject having the incinerator imposed upon us”
TONY NEWMAN, the leader of the Labour opposition group on Croydon Council, says that he will use every legal power available to stop a £1 billion Viridor incinerator project being developed on the borders of the borough at Beddington Lane … Continue reading →
April Fools’ Day welfare changes are fooling nobody
Social security, or welfare, payments are about to be drastically reduced. Or “reformed”, in the language used by the government. TONY NEWMAN, leader of the opposition Labour group on the council, highlights how those changes are likely to impact Croydon … Continue reading →
Gavin Barwell, benefits and a whole load of old b…
The Croydon Central MP (“I’m just a bag-carrier”) staged a meeting in the Town Hall yesterday to try to defend the ConDem government’s policies on welfare. ANDREW FISHER remains unconvinced, and here’s why Having had many a disagreement with local … Continue reading →
Incinerator campaigners ask: WHO is Gavin Barwell?
Jean Lambert, the Green party’s Member of the European Parliament for London, has joined a protest against the proposed incinerator in Beddington. Visiting a primary school next to the proposed incinerator site on Friday, Lambert contradicted Croydon Central MP Gavin … Continue reading →
Local Tories to quit party over gay marriage vote
Croydon’s three Members of Parliament will today all vote in favour of gay marriage, despite absolute opposition from, in one case, his church and in the case of both Conservatives, several local Tory party members. Inside Croydon understands that the … Continue reading →
Gavin Barwell and his divisive myths of the benefit cap
Last week, a local MP claimed that some benefit claimants were collecting seven-figure sums from the state. As Croydon residents are about to be used as lab rats in a social experiment, ANDREW FISHER, left, explains that as well as … Continue reading →
MP Barwell’s taxing links with Google and Ashcroft
DAVID WHITE highlights a local MP’s troubling attitude on tax avoidance Those following the website of Gavin Barwell, the MP for Croydon Central, will have seen a posting last week: “Gavin Barwell MP has secured a free Google training seminar … Continue reading →
Barwell, the “race card” and some uncomfortable facts
Last month, ANDREW FISHER criticised Gavin Barwell for “playing the race card” by linking immigration to unemployment during the by-election campaign, something the Croydon Central MP tried to ridicule. Yesterday, the publication of the 2011 Census results provided some hard … Continue reading →
What a load of rubbish! MP says streets not clean enough
Despite Croydon’s Conservative-run council spending many millions of pounds each year on an outsourced contract, the streets of New Addington are so dirty that the local MP is calling for volunteers to clean them up. Gavin Barwell, the Tory MP … Continue reading →
“Shamed” MP Barwell’s apologies fail to make amends
Under extreme mental stress when the MP for Croydon Central, ANDREW PELLING says he felt shunned and abandoned by his supposed parliamentary friends. That his mental ill-health was exploited at the General Election by a colleague should have the latest … Continue reading →
Schools job raises questions about Barwell’s Foundation links
The announcement this afternoon that Gavin Barwell is to be the parliamentary private secretary to the controversial education minister, Michael Gove, has led to renewed questions about the Croydon Central MP’s position with the multi-million-pound education charity, the Whitgift Foundation. … Continue reading →
Praise for mental health bill MP who calls people “loons”
Many believe that the Right-leaning Spectator magazine, whose recent editors have included Charles “Lord Snooty” Moore, Dominic Lawson, the son of a Tory Chancellor, and Boris Johnson, has been going downhill ever since star columnist Jeffrey Bernard became terminally unwell.
Tory MP escapes £10,000 fines after breaking law for two years
Gavin Barwell took more than two years to comply with data protection law after being elected as MP for Croydon Central, Inside Croydon has discovered. His excuse? The former public schoolboy says that he thought someone else was doing it … Continue reading →
Mugger with the mic? Or taken for mugs in the audience?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A 15 per cent fall in turnover in the Croydon retail sector in five years? Solution: Build more shops! Expensive residential tower blocks left unfinished, unbuilt or unsold? Solution: Build more towers! CRO CRUSADER questions the logic of … Continue reading →
Barwell fails to whip up support for unpopular Lords reform
Former MP ANDREW PELLING on how our local MPs chose to vote on the controversial Lords Reform Bill last night No gumption in evidence last night from four of our local MPs in resisting the flawed options for reform of … Continue reading →
