- After five years of ever-increasing bail-outs for Croydon’s cash-stapped council, what alternative actions were there?
- And is Mayor Jason Perry right to feel aggrieved?
Tired of paying more for less, after 27% Council Tax hikes in two years and the closure of four libraries, the axing of a vital youth outreach service and the end of the road for the borough’s lollipop ladies and men, our panel of Croydon residents – and Inside Croydon readers – discuss the latest developments at the Town Hall, the lack of progress over the Whitgift Centre with Westfield, and accuse the Mayor of “fucking the finances”.
Our panel of residents explain how they feel the council, and councillors, have been gaslighting them with a council freesheet newspaper, paid for out of their Council Tax, and by appearing in “Mr Angry”-style videos which ignore the failures of the past three years.
Plus there’s news of the latest CronxWatch YouTube video, a performance at Stanley Arts by a group of south Asian women with an average age of 78, the benefits of allotments, and the covid legacy for GCSE pupils finishing their public exams.
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