WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on the grim budget report from the borough’s failed Mayor
After almost five years in charge at Croydon Town Hall, Mayor Jason Perry has made a public admission of failure.
“It remains difficult to see a sustainable route out of Exceptional Financial Support without government intervention,” the Tory Mayor has written in his latest draft budget report. According to Perry, without some form of debt write-off, he is incapable of running the council’s finances without tens of millions of pounds more in government bail-outs.
Part-time Perry pays himself £86,000 per year as the borough’s “executive” Mayor. But in his draft budget report, which was published today, he has ruled out any wage freeze or pay cuts for council staff next year.
But he will go ahead and hike Council Tax by the maximum allowed. Continue reading
The Purley Literary Society was set up in 1901 by the Congregational Church as a mechanism to “improve” agricultural workers #, and give them an alternative to visiting the pubs and fleshpots of Purley during the winter months. The Purley Lit has continued ever autumn and winter ever since, just losing a few years due to world wars, and more recently, covid. 
CROYDON IN CRISIS: In 2018, Daniel Cox blew the whistle when he discovered that a contractor was charging the council almost double what he was being paid for his work. Cox was dismissed, and the council has spent the past eight years working with the same contractor to gag him.
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Jason Perry, Croydon’s self-important but impotent Mayor, continues to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of tax-payers’ money on personal publicity stunts and political appointees.
“Please bring your donations to the 10am Sunday service, where they will be blessed before being distributed,” the Minster says.
