After the mass resignation a fortnight ago of around a dozen members, including some candidates, Reform is trying to re-stage its New Addington walkabout tomorrow morning, with a promised ‘star guest’. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Reform, the limited company being passed off as a political party, is hoping to be out and about in New Addington tomorrow morning, promising a “VERY SPECIAL GUEST” – their choice of caps lock – as they try again to stage the walkabout stunt that collapsed in disarray last month when around a dozen members, including several election candidates, quit the party in disgust over the imposition by Farage party HQ of Ben Flook as their candidate for Mayor.
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Flook is Reform Ltd’s fourth choice of candidate to run for election as Croydon Mayor, and was a somewhat rushed choice, having been named as candidate less than 48 hours after Dan Milner-Tebbutt, until recently the chair of Croydon Reform, had been lined up for the role.
Both Milner-Tebbutt and Flook had only recently joined Reform after previously being members of the Conservative Party.
Milner-Tebbutt had also previously been an elected Labour councillor in the Midlands.
Flook, a teacher of politics at Wallington County Grammar School, was a Conservative Party candidate in the 2024 General Election. He has made no statement of how he intends to proceed if elected as executive Mayor on May 7, with his pupils in Wallington still having two months of the school year to complete. Continue reading
CROYDON COMMENTARY: 
In no particular order, I want the Mayor of Croydon to fix the budget, improve services, sort out the town centre, restore the Fairfield Halls to its former glory and much more. I’m not holding my breath, however.
“Fingers crossed it actually happens this time,” according to officials from the local residents’ association, whose latest newsletter carries the front-page headline: “Take Three!”
Nearly two years later than anticipated, Southern Housing has released on to the housing market a huge scheme of flats in Purley called Fount Spring Place.
Reform, the limited company that selected a dead woman as their candidate for Croydon Mayor, now includes among its nominees for the council elections next month someone who has written a published article which suggests that the covid pandemic which claimed the lives of millions around the world was a conspiracy led by the United States military and global elites.
Katherine Kerswell, Croydon’s chief executive who issued three Section 114 notices of effective bankruptcy during her time in charge at the council, was taking home salary and pensions totalling £223,838 in the year before she left Fisher’s Folly.
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Even before her own party bosses censored her manifesto, there were spending commitments being made by Rowenna Davis, Labour’s candidate for Croydon Mayor, that just don’t add up. LibDem candidate RICHARD HOWARD, pictured left, explains
Less than one month until election day, our Political Editor, WALTER CRONXITE, looks at the latest polls and by-elections to assess – or guess – how the Croydon electorate will vote for executive Mayor on May 7
