Tag Archives: Gavin Barwell
Even in Croydon, the Tories are split over Europe
The splits in the Conservative party over Europe, so widely reported nationally, are even apparent between two of Croydon’s MPs, reports ANDREW PELLING With UKIP polling as high as 20 per cent in opinion polls this week, Croydon’s Conservative MPs … Continue reading →
Power to the people, not the snakes in Savile Row suits
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Our loyal reader questioned whether this site could, or should, be carrying articles from local UKIP representatives. Far too right wing, they suggested. But the Sage of Waddon, ARFUR TOWCRATE read the piece about local democracy and saw … Continue reading →
Let them bake cake: Croydon Portas team’s £16,000 spend
Croydon’s Portas Pilot scheme, which saw the historic Surrey Street Market granted £100,000 of government money a year ago, is spending nearly £16,000 of that cash to stage a handful of baking competitions and to “improve” Exchange Square. Inside Croydon … Continue reading →
Addiscombe councillor takes the (very) high road for charity
With Croydon Council in recess, Addiscombe councillor Mark Watson is off on his latest charity trek. This latest vertiginous effort will take him to north Africa’s highest peak, the 13,671ft Jebeel Toubkal in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Watson is … Continue reading →
Inside Croydon’s Hero of the Week: John Cartwright
Inside Croydon puts great store in “doing the right thing”, and our local hero (cue Knopfler guitar music) for the past week is therefore John Cartwright. A relatively new member of the Croydon Conservative party, Cartwright did the right thing … Continue reading →
Campaigners to protest at incinerator planning meeting
The campaign to stop the building of a waste incinerator on Metropolitan Open Land at Beddington Lane seems to be entering a critical phase, following the approval of the plans for the Viridor commercial scheme by Sutton Council’s planning officers. … Continue reading →
Changed the nation forever, and not necessarily for the better
Gavin Barwell, Croydon Central’s Conservative party MP, struck a slightly begrudging tone this afternoon when, in commenting on Twitter on the death, at age 87, of Margaret Thatcher, described her only as “one of our greatest Prime Ministers”. “Margaret Thatcher … Continue reading →
Croydon Tories proudly announce new signing: John Loony
The recruitment drive by Croydon Conservatives, after nearly a year’s hard work, has delivered its first significant new member: John Cartwright, also known as John Loony, the habitual deposit-loser for the Monster Raving Loony Party at elections across the borough … 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 →
Croydon Central will have all-woman list for Labour
The Labour party candidate for the Croydon Central parliamentary seat will be a woman, according to a report on the Labour List website today. The seat, which was held by Labour until 2005, is represented by Gavin Barwell of the … Continue reading →
Croydon could be counting a new women’s Champion
Croydon has never had a woman MP, but tonight could see an important step made to change that. Counting Women In today publishes its report Sex and Power 2013: Who Runs Britain? which details a huge gender imbalance in British … 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 →
Croydon Tory agent’s misogynistic “romantic” weekend
Romantic lot, Croydon Tories… Inside Croydon has reported on Ian Parker in the past. The local councillor for Coulsdon West doubles up as a Conservative party election agent – he was the fall-guy with a High Court judge when both … Continue reading →
Schools can join Croydon’s Code Club: meeting, Thu, Feb 21
As the Croydon Tech City movement, first publicised on Inside Croydon last year, gathers momentum, one of its first moves is to offer a Code Club after-school club to local primaries. Code Club will teach primary school children computer programming … 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 →
