Not content with axing services that protect children, closing libraries and committing ‘cultural vandalism’ over CALAT, Croydon’s Mayor is now coming after lone-parent families and even disabled residents.
WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on Perry’s plan to make cuts to Council Tax Support
Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, must really be some kind of genius.
He’s just realised that if you increase Council Tax by 39% in just four years, as he will have done with the next increase in April 2027, you cause more financial difficulties for more residents, and more people will need Council Tax Support.
So now he’s looking to cut the council’s subsidy of its local tax, which is received by 19,000 of the borough’s residents. According to the council’s own propaganda, Piss-poor Perry is even looking to cut Council Tax Support to lone-parent families and disabled residents.
“Pushing people further into poverty who are already only just making ends meet is not an option,” is the response from the South Norwood Community Kitchen. Continue reading
Did someone mention jobs for the Tory boys?
Ethel has won tickets worth more than £90 to see the singing sensations reprise all their greatest hits from the 1960s and 1970s.
CROYDON CHRONICLES: As the town centre’s ancient market reaches its 750th anniversary, DAVID MORGAN charts its growth from its beginnings as Butchers Row, aided by the patronage of commercially-minded Archbishops of Canterbury 
Somewhere this morning, Jo Negrini was having a little self-congratulatory chuckle.
SDEN is the council-owned scheme that was supposed to pipe heat from the Beddington incinerator.
While billions of pounds have been spent on Tube extensions or earmarked for the Docklands Light Railway, Croydon’s trams have become the poor relations of the capital’s transport infrastructure. And the strain is beginning to show. By STEVEN DOWNES
Award-winning stand-up Mark Steel sits down with our columnist, Andrew Fisher, for a frank, wide-ranging and often hilarious interview, the latest podcast from the Inside Croydon ‘multiverse’.
