Nominations of candidates to stand in the General Election on July 4 closed at 4pm today.
Candidates for three Croydon constituencies – Croydon East, Croydon West and Croydon South – were supposed to be published by 5pm on the council website.
They eventually appeared around 6pm, but with a hefty typo in the name of the Conservatives’ candidate for Croydon South.
It looked like a plea for hilp.
Either that, or council officials are really taking the P…
The fourth Croydon constituency, Streatham and Croydon North, is being handled by Lambeth Council. Their candidate lists had not been published by 6.30pm tonight. Officials at Brixton Town Hall finally got around to posting pdfs of their four constituency candidate lists a couple of hours later, by which time staff in Fisher’s Folly had managed to correct the spelling of Chris Philp’s name on the Croydon website.
Here are the candidates for the Croydon seats:
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Does this mean the criminal investigation into shenanigans at Croydon East have been completed ?
No.
Is there a timeline as to when criminal investigations will be completed ?
No. It’s the Met Police, Ian
So a potential GE winner could well be excluded subsequent to the GE result. I have never known such an outcome. Could this be a first ?
No.
You’re assuming that the selected candidate is implicated in the investigation.
That might be a bit of a leap
Hilp? Philp, more like it. Unless that’s him asking in his posh voice for assistance to save him from oblivion, which would be a right kick in the Balkans for the overseas property tycoon
Oh gosh – ‘posh voice’? What possible relevance is the way the poor bloke’s voice? How do we describe the accents of the other candidates – ‘affected south London’, ‘thick’? Come on, this is beneath IC’s premier comment-writer. BTW, I’ve just checked out Ben Taylor’s speech – sounds pretty posh to me!
Hilp. That is a beaut
They removed the listings from the official council website (again) just after 6.30pm, you’d assume to make that correction (and maybe others).
But it’s back now, on Croydon Council’s official election website, as presided over by Acting Returning Officer, Katherine Kerswell, and Hilp’s still there.
So late and wrong. That’s so Croydon Council.
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Hapless Croydon Council with Kerswell at the helm doing the counts for three constituencies? The Streatham and Croydon North constituency (counted by Lambeth Council) will be first to declare of the Croydon constituencies by hours or even days ?
If Croydon Council are so slow that they delay the overall result of the election, is that an excuse to finally rid ourselves of the Kerswell (local government gravy train freeloader) ?!
Do we know Hilp and Bromley’s addresses
Hilp Hilp Hooray for Kurzebad.
Always a pleasure to share a ballot paper with Peter.
Bob Bromley is clearly standing for election in the wrong borough
Accent, voice don’t really matter to me what is said and track record — where the person has been in public service as a MP or Councillor — does and that’s where Mr Philp falls down badly. Wasn’t he something in the treasury when Truss was driving the British economy off the white cliffs of Dover?