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Category Archives: 2014 council elections
Council CEO parrots Tory party line in official press releases
Amid more accusations of “dirty” campaigning ahead of Thursday’s Town Hall elections, formal complaints have already been filed with the Electoral Commission over alleged abuse of public office by some of the most senior employees at Croydon Council. With the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Boris Johnson, Crime, Croydon Council, Julie Belvir, Kenley, Knife crime, Nathan Elvery, Policing, Simon Hoar, Tim Pollard, Vidhi Mohan
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, Simon Hoar, Tim Pollard, Vidhi Mohan, Waddon
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Green Party’s MEP backs call for more space for cyclists
Jean Lambert, London’s Green MEP, has urged cyclists to support candidates in this week’s council elections who have pledged improvements to cycling infrastructure. Lambert was speaking ahead of the Space for Cycling Big Ride staged in London and cities across … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Commuting, Croydon Greens, Cycling, Environment, Health, Transport
Tagged Croydon, Green Party, Jean Lambert, London, MEP
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Time to rebuild cultural wasteland created by Croydon Tories
VOTE 2014: TIMOTHY GODFREY, Croydon Labour’s arts and culture spokesman, says that encouraging culture, instead of axing its funding, is possible and can be done Art and culture have a civilising influence on us all. They bring people together, they … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Art, Cinema, Comedy, Dance, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Fairfield Halls, Music, Riesco Collection, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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Cynical Croydon charging children £3,500 for remedial lessons
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, reports on some disturbing developments at the borough’s state primary schools Croydon Council is charging the parents of some primary school children more than £3,500 per year just so that they can receive their legal right … Continue reading
Tory council votes to increase payments to its leadership
Mike Fisher, the florid-faced leader of the Conservatives who have been running Croydon Council since 2006, is keen to see next Thursday’s election contested on his record in office. Unsurprisingly, the £1 billion debt that Croydon Council has built up … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Kenley, Margaret Mead, Mike Fisher, Steve O'Connell, Surrey, Tim Pollard
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Fisher's Folly, Helen Pollard, Labour, Margaret Mead, Mike Fisher, Steve O'Connell, Surrey, Tim Pollard, Tory
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Thornton Heath lawyer wants to give major parties a wigging
VOTE 2014: It is not just some among the black and minority ethnic Conservatives in Croydon who feel that they have been overlooked by their own party. Thornton Heath lawyer Dwain Coward, previously a Labour supporter, has become so disillusioned … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Coulsdon Town, David Osland, Karen Jewitt, Louisa Woodley, Pat Clouder, Thornton Heath, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, David Osland, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Stephen Lawrence, Thornton Heath, Tory, UKIP
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Let’s make our libraries the cornerstones of our communities
VOTE 2014: TIMOTHY GODFREY, spokesman on arts and culture for the local Labour group, outlines his party’s policy for the borough’s marginalised and privatised public library service Something has gone terribly wrong at Croydon libraries. When the then Labour Council … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Art, Carillion, David Lean Cinema Campaign, John Laing Integrated Services, Libraries, Riesco Collection, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central Library, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, David Lean Cinema, Labour, Libraries, New Addington, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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Lambert and Lucas focus on the fracking threat in the capital
Caroline Lucas, the country’s first Green MP, and London’s Green MEP Jean Lambert will be in Croydon this afternoon to highlight the threat of fracking in the capital. Lambert and Lucas will visit a potential fracking site just a few … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Greens, Environment, Fracking
Tagged Caroline Lucas, Croydon, Environment, Fracking, Green Party, Jean Lambert, shale gas, Tory
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Whoops! Tories drop West Thornton from election advert
WALTER CRONXITE, our man outside the Croydon Tories’ head office in Purley with a rolled up copy of the local paper and a iPhone 5S in his pocket, reports on another example that shows that politicians take the electorate for … Continue reading
Croydon’s rubbish council: the 2014 Garbage Gallery
MAY 10 UPDATE: The essence of this feature has been a graphic representation of the continuing extent of fly-tipping on our streets. Now, thanks to another Freedom of Information request and some hard work by Inside Croydon’s loyal reader, here’s … Continue reading
Shirley residents and shops demand one-hour free parking
Activists in Shirley yesterday delivered a petition to Transport for London signed by more than 1,200 local residents calling for one-hour free parking at key points in their neighbourhood. When Marzia Nicodemi and Said Otmani delivered the petition, they were … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Parking, Shirley North
Tagged Croydon, Labour, Mike Fisher, Parking, Shirley
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Broad Green candidate fears for the end of local government
A candidate in Croydon’s Town Hall elections says that unless urgent action is taken to reverse the policies of the ConDem government, we could soon see the “end of local government as we know it”. There’s a few people in … Continue reading
Council’s culture clash leaves truth and fairness as casualties
This week, Inside Croydon has highlighted the party political interference going on at the council headquarters during what is supposed to be a period of election purdah, apparently to benefit of the ruling Conservative group. It is symptomatic of the … Continue reading
