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Category Archives: 2015 General Election
Play your part in the second Croydon Assembly, June 6
ANDREW FISHER on an important discussion coming to Ruskin House Last November, more than 100 attended the first Croydon Assembly – a community initiative that brought together trade unionists, community campaigners and other residents to discuss how we can influence … Continue reading
Croydon’s ‘MasterPlan’ only makes housing crisis worse
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Last week’s announcement by the Conservative Party that they want to give housing association tenants the Right to Buy has not impressed regular commenter, ROD DAVIES The Right-to-Buy proposals are just plain mad, but perhaps in Croydon they … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2015 General Election, Addiscombe West, Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, ECCO, Environment, Fairfield, Housing, Planning
Tagged Broad Green, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Housing, Tory
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Mayoral contender calls for review of incinerator schemes
A leading contender for selection by Labour to run for the Mayor of London next year says he will ask whoever is the Environment Secretary in the new Government to conduct an urgent review of all waste incinerator schemes planned … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, 2016 London elections, Boris Johnson, Christian Wolmar, Croydon Greens, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Boris Johnson, Christian Wolmar, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Stop The Incinerator Campaign, Tom Brake, Viridor
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Croydon Labour candidate is caught on the fiddle (sort of)
Inside Croydon has discovered another politician on the fiddle. The Hon Emily Benn, Labour’s candidate in Croydon South, is playing her violin in a “campaign concert” this Sunday, April 26, presumably hoping to make sweet music for potential voters as … Continue reading
Environment secretary Davey helps Brake dine out with Viridor
More evidence has emerged of ties between incinerator operators Viridor and senior members of the Liberal Democrats in Sutton, including Tom Brake, until last month the deputy Leader of the House in the ConDem coalition. At least three executives from … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Broad Green, Business, Croydon Greens, Environment, Nick Mattey, Planning, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Council, John Drage, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Stop the Incinerator, Stop The Incinerator Campaign, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tom Brake, Viridor, Waddon
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Dear LibDems: I remain a liberal, a democrat and a councillor
Sutton LibDems’ suspension of Councillor Nick Mattey could have a damaging impact on the General Election campaign in their parliamentary constituencies, reports WALTER CRONXITE Tom Brake’s efforts to be re-elected as MP for Carshalton and Wallington, the seat he has … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Business, Church and religions, Environment, Nick Mattey, Paul Burstow MP, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Stop the Incinerator, Sutton Council, Tom Brake, Viridor
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The brave letter that got Sutton councillor suspended
NICK MATTEY was elected as a councillor for Beddington North ward in Sutton last year for the Liberal Democrats. Today, he was suspended from the party for sending his group a letter about the proposal to build a waste-burning incinerator … Continue reading
LibDems accused of bullying blind woman at Clegg rally
Yesterday’s back-firing LibDem rally outside St Helier Hospital has prompted further controversy over allegations that supporters of Nick Clegg acted in an intimidating and bullying manner towards the protestors, including a blind woman. Emily Brothers is Labour’s candidate for Sutton … Continue reading
Nick Clegg feels the heat from anti-incinerator protestors
Nick Clegg, soon to be the ex-Deputy Prime Minister and possibly also soon-to-be an ex-MP and ex-leader of the Liberal Democrats, was forced to abandon a carefully stage-managed photo-op outside St Helier Hospital in Sutton this afternoon, when protestors from … Continue reading
Benn launches her election campaign. Not that you’d notice
STEVEN DOWNES on the non-existent General Election campaign across most of south London Yesterday evening, I made one of my occasional appearances on a recording of Metroknobbers, the south London hyperlocal podcast organised by Jason Cobb, who writes on matters … Continue reading
Council planners powerless to halt bookies or pub closures
Among the many deceits of the last government was its supposed policy of “localism”. Under Conservative communities minister “Big Eric” Pickles, it was nothing of the sort. Local councils have been stripped of so many of their powers over the … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Planning, Property, Pubs, Refuse collection, Schools, South Norwood, Thornton Heath
Tagged bookmakers, Conservative, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Planning, pubs, South Norwood, The Ship, Thornton Heath, Tory
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