CROYDON IN CRISIS: Orders from Labour Party’s Central Command and local enmities look to consign our borough’s residents to years of more party political pantomime that shores up the position of bungling Mayor Jason Perry. By WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor
Labour has directed the party’s local councillors in town halls around the country to not work with the Green Party.
The injunction, from the party of Mandelson, Starmer and McSweeney, is unlikely to have much of an effect in Croydon, where Labour already loathes the Greens.
Labour has 30 of Croydon’s 70 councillors, the Greens eight – enough, if they were to work together, to ensure a majority vote at full council meetings between now and 2030, when the next elections are due to take place.
But in Croydon, the key detail is that we have a Conservative Mayor, directly elected. In May, Tory Jason Perry was re-elected by a paltry majority of just 1,113 votes from Labour’s Rowenna Davis. Green Party candidate Peter Underwood was third, with 19,404 votes… Continue reading
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