Council’s top lawyer questioned over the public funds used to distribute a propaganda freesheet worthy of something from the regime of dictator Kim Jong-un. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports
Enough to make Korean dictator blush: Jason Perry has been misusing the council’s public funds to produce his propaganda freesheets
Jason Perry has been accused of abusing his position as Croydon Mayor and spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of tax-payers’ money on his own political propaganda, just weeks ahead of the local elections.
Perry, the £86,000 per year Mayor who has hiked Council Tax by 33% since 2023, has shamelessly included a two-page A4 letter with the annual Council Tax mail-outs sent to all property owners in the borough to try to suggest he’s been doing a bang-up job.
And on top of that, a fifth edition of Our Croydon, the council-funded freesheet, is also being thrust through residents’ letter boxes, whether they want it or not.
Whether they want it or not, residents are also paying for this barely disguised piece of Tory Party propaganda. Perry has authorised the cash-strapped council to spend more than £150,000 in the past year having this propaganda rag printed and distributed around the borough. Continue reading
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