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Category Archives: 2015 General Election
Blaming the polls when something else didn’t add up
It appears that this was the election where it wasn’t only UKIP blaming the Poles… or the polls. JOHN BRAGGINS explains why he should have trusted the numbers First an apology: my job was to look at the polls and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Tory, UKIP
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Britain is left a divided nation, Croydon a polarised borough
WALTER CRONXITE pokes through the wreckage left by the 2015 General Election in Croydon, London and the country Balls. Metaphorically, and as far as the former shadow chancellor is concerned, physically. Politically, Croydon today is more polarised than at any … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Peter Staveley, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Barwell, Chris Philp MP, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Hammerson, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, Member of parliament, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory, UKIP, Westfield, Whitgift Foundation
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VOTE 2015: Live coverage of Croydon’s General Election
We will be reporting live through the night on the General Election results in Croydon – North, South and Central – London and across the country. We encourage you to send us your comments by email and Twitter. Croydon’s counts … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Esther Sutton, Gavin Barwell, Gill Hickson, Jon Bigger, Kathleen Garner, Nathan Elvery, Peter Staveley, Peter Underwood, Sarah Jones MP, Shasha Khan, Steve Reed MP, Winston McKenzie
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Tagged Barwell, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tory, UKIP
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Barwell’s bogus claim about football prompts Palace coup
After David Cameron came to Croydon and forgot which football team he had been briefed to say he supports, you might have thought that Gavin Barwell, desperately hanging on for his political career as MP for Croydon Central, would have … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Central, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Gavin Barwell, Sport
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon Central, Crystal Palace, Gavin Barwell, Selhurst Park, Tory
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Croydon faces a long night of election counts and re-counts
After the longest election campaign in British history, with millions spent on red, blue and purple posters, it’s still too close to call. Nationally and, as WALTER CRONXITE reports, here in Croydon’s very own marginal battleground seat Pay your money, … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Business, Croydon Central, Esther Sutton, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura, Peter Staveley, Sarah Jones MP, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Tagged Andrew Pelling, Barwell, Conservative, Croydon Central, Esther Sutton, Gavin Barwell, Hammerson, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Member of parliament, Peter Staveley, Sarah Jones MP, Tory, UKIP, Westfield
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Croydon Tory official justifies racist tweet by using ‘N’ word
Croydon Conservatives have failed to apologise for, or take disciplinary action over, the racist tweets of Anne Piles, a member of their executive committee and prominent supporter of parliamentary candidates Gavin Barwell, Chris Philp and Vidhi Mohan. And without any … Continue reading →
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Taxing questions on business for Philp the parachutist
Whatever the outcome, tomorrow’s General Election will be an historic one in Croydon South, where for the first time in 23 years, its MP will not be Richard Ottaway. And good riddance, we can sense many muttering – including many … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Business, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon South, Gill Hickson, Jon Bigger, Kathleen Garner, Peter Underwood, Richard Ottaway MP
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Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon South, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Peter Underwood, Richard Ottaway, Sam Gyimah, Tory
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An election where politicians speak to voters? That’s new
JACK VAN DAM and JOHN SHIVELY are politics students from America. They arrived in Croydon last week keen to see a British election in action. This is what they found On Friday, we walked out of the busy East Croydon … Continue reading →
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Russell Brand casts media campaign into a new light. Maybe
On the eve of the General Election, JOHN BRAGGINS finds the polls are not offering much insight on the result, the bookies are hoping to hedge their bets on their favourite, and UKIP is employing eastern Europeans. So no change … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Gill Hickson, Kathleen Garner, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP
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Tagged Barwell, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, John Braggins, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tory, UKIP
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Carshalton candidates gang up on Brake over incinerator
If Tom “Thanks very much for the £275,000 gift to a local church” Brake doesn’t manage to hang on to his Carshalton and Wallington parliamentary seat in the General Election on Thursday, then whoever replaces him as MP seems likely … Continue reading →
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Jones answers questions some thought we dare not ask
Zero-hour contracts, the NHS, immigration… There’s strong answers to most questions, provided you don’t have to deal with the distorting prism of the multi-millionaires’ mainstream media. By STEVEN DOWNES This is the first Twitter General Election. Twitter was around in … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Local media, Sarah Jones MP
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Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Coogan, Tory
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Tories accused of ‘Nasty Party’ tactics over bogus letters
“We were angry when we received this political letter. It’s got Jenny’s name on it, but it has very little to do with her. She had a serious stroke last year and she’s been housebound for the past few weeks. … Continue reading →
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Posted in "Hammersfield", 2015 General Election, Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Sanderstead, Sarah Jones MP, Sylvia MacDonald, Tim Pollard, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Tagged Barwell, Croydon, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Hammerson, Labour, Member of parliament, Sanderstead, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Foundation
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Bogus Barwell’s donors include exiled oligarch and NHS seller
Having flagged up Bogus Barwell, the millionaire developers’ best mate, news reaches us of the donors who have contributed thousands of pounds to his “Don’t Mention the Tories” campaign to hang on to his parliamentary seat in Croydon Central. These … Continue reading →
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Posted in "Hammersfield", 2015 General Election, Business, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, John Burton, Mike Fisher, Property, Sarah Jones MP, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged #WadGate, Barwell, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Mike Fisher, Sarah Jones MP, Tory, Westfield
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Bogus Barwell shows his true colours as millionaires’ mate
Who do you want your MP to represent after being elected on Thursday? Do you want them to go to Westminster to represent you? Or do you want them to provide more support for multi-million pound property speculators? STEVEN DOWNES, … Continue reading →
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Posted in "Hammersfield", 2015 General Election, Business, CPO, Croydon Central, Eddy Arram, Gavin Barwell, Housing, John Burton, Mayor of London, Planning, Sarah Jones MP, Stiles Harold Williams, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Tory, UKIP, Westfield
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Secretive incinerator scheme is a bad deal, say Sutton Tories
There are other Sutton LibDem councillors who, like Nick Mattey, believe that there are serious flaws in the secretive £1 billion scheme to build an industrial incinerator at Beddington Lane, according to Tim Crowley, the leader of the opposition Conservative … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Environment, London-wide issues, Nick Mattey, Planning, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
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Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Brake, Tory
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Blukip strategy is paying off as Barwell takes 4% poll lead
And then, at the last, like the US cavalry riding over the hill to the rescue, Gavin Barwell’s old boss, Lord Cashcroft, pulls out a poll to say that the Tories will hold Croydon Central. Ashcroft published the results of … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Sarah Jones MP
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Sarah Jones MP, Tory, UKIP
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Things are still spinning entering final week of campaign
Bob Dylan, John Cleese and Glenda Jackson’s son having an orgasm (not a pretty thought): JOHN BRAGGINS takes a more careful look at what some pollsters and pundits have been passing off as fact as we enter the final week … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Richard Ottaway, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tory, UKIP
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Reed is getting sniffy over Progress policies and Mansion Tax
You might think that Steve Reed OBE, the fortunate incumbent in a 12,000-vote Labour majority Croydon North parliamentary seat, might be a relaxed mood going into next week’s General Election. He ought to be. Just don’t let anyone at tonight’s … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Greens, Croydon North, Environment, Shasha Khan, Steve Reed MP, Vidhi Mohan, Waste incinerator, Winston McKenzie
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Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Blairite, Conservative, Croydon North, Green Party, Labour, Shasha Khan, Steve Reed OBE, Stop The Incinerator Campaign, Vidhi Mohan
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UKIP candidate confirms he’s running a ‘soft’ campaign
UKIP’s candidate in Croydon Central has confirmed that he is running a subdued election campaign, and claims it does not matter whether Gavin Barwell or Sarah Jones wins the seat in next week’s General Election. According to Peter Staveley, both … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Peter Staveley, Sarah Jones MP
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Labour, Peter Staveley, Sarah Jones MP, UKIP
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It’s economically grim down south here in Croydon
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Is the electorate being sold a pig in a poke over the “improving” state of the economy? ANDREW FISHER thinks so, and especially in London and particularly here in Croydon In yesterday’s Guardian, Aditya Chakrabortty wrote a typically … Continue reading →
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Posted in "Hammersfield", 2015 General Election, Andrew Fisher, Business, Gavin Barwell, Housing, Property, Selhurst, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon North, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Tory, Westfield
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Testy Tory Philp refuses to answer property questions
Appearing less “lively” by the day, WALTER CRONXITE reports from what he claims is his 18th hustings of the election campaign so far, this time in Croydon South “Mind your own business.” That was the extraordinary response at last night’s … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Emily Benn, Gill Hickson, Jon Bigger, Kathleen Garner, Peter Underwood, Richard Ottaway MP, Schools, Trinity School
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Tagged Barwell, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, The Hon Emily Benn, Tory, UKIP
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Barwell banking on Blukip pact as election gap narrows
WALTER CRONXITE reports on a late development in the marginal Croydon Central seat which could prove a game-changer Gavin Barwell’s political career could depend on a pact with the local UKIP candidate, as Blukip comes to Croydon. There’s been suspicions … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Sarah Jones MP
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Labour, Peter Staveley, Sarah Jones MP, Tory, UKIP
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Barwell’s rubbish campaign looks like it is being swept away
HAS GAV GIVEN UP (Part 94): Inside Croydon is delighted to be able to bring you photographic evidence that Croydon Council’s clean-up of the borough is beginning to show signs of success. At the local council elections last year, Labour … Continue reading →
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Time to make housing a voting issue, one brick at a time
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The council’s “MasterPlan” for housing is a political joke, says DAVID CALLAM The housing MasterPlan would be funny if it wasn’t so serious for so many families who can never afford the fairytale prices being demanded by property … Continue reading →
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Posted in "Hammersfield", 2015 General Election, Alison Butler, Business, Croydon Council, David Callam, Housing, Planning
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Tagged Alison Butler, Conservative, Croydon Council, Housing, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Richard Ottaway, Tory
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Latest polls point to Tories praying for rain in Croydon Central
WALTER CRONXITE has got his abacus out again to examine the implications of London-wide polling results Friday’s YouGov poll for the Evening Boris, dedicated just to London voters, gives a chance to provide another analysis on where the marginal Croydon … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Andrew Pelling, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Peter Staveley, Sarah Jones MP
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Sarah Jones MP, Tory, UKIP
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