Category Archives: 2015 General Election

Tory Philp must choose Croydon South or his investments

Posted on March 5, 2015 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The Tories’ parliamentary candidate for Croydon South has financed multi-million-pound housing projects around London. Does this influence his views on schemes in our borough? By JON BIGGER Chris Philp, the Conservatives’ parliamentary candidate in Croydon South, has been … Continue reading →

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UKIP make ‘crass’ member chairman of Croydon North branch

Posted on March 5, 2015 by insidecroydon

UKIP in Croydon, who caused widespread disgust when three of its members lodged the call for the Selhurst ward by-election before the funeral of former councillor Gerry Ryan, have rewarded one of those who created the outrage by making him … Continue reading →

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Sheen’s speech is an eloquent rallying call to save our NHS

Posted on March 4, 2015 by insidecroydon

Last Saturday, a doughty band of campaigners spent a cold and wet day outside East Croydon Station seeking signatures for a petition in support of the NHS. It was a nationwide day of action to Save Our NHS. More than … Continue reading →

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Ex-Spurs star Sol Campbell urges Tories to back Barwell

Posted on March 3, 2015 by insidecroydon

The things that some people will do to secure selection in a safe Tory seat. Sol Campbell, the former Tottenham, Arsenal and England footballer, has suddenly discovered he is Gavin Barwell’s biggest fan. Presumably, Campbell has not yet discovered that … Continue reading →

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Tax-payers pay £5.8m for councillors’ job creation scheme

Posted on March 2, 2015 by insidecroydon

Political patronage on the rates has reached ridiculous proportions at Croydon Town Hall, reports WALTER CRONXITE Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind, parliamentary elder statesmen and former Foreign Secretaries, are clearly not as sharp as they would have liked us … Continue reading →

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Planning meeting became an Arena for education strategy

Posted on February 28, 2015 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Woodside resident PAULA GOODMAN feels betrayed by her Labour councillors over what she sees as an abuse of the planning procedures to permit the development of a 1,300-pupil Oasis academy next to Croydon Arena In a meeting with … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Ashburton, Croydon Council, Education, Gavin Barwell, Hamida Ali, Oasis Academy, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Paul Scott, Planning, Schools, Stephen Mann, Tony Newman, Woodside | Tagged , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Planning chairman backs down over ban on MP Barwell

Posted on February 26, 2015 by insidecroydon

How many U-turns does Labour’s council leader Tony Newman have to perform before he disappears up his own fundament? Gavin Barwell will be allowed to speak at tonight’s planning meeting at Croydon Town Hall after all, as the Labour-run council … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Emily Benn, Gavin Barwell, Oasis Academy, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Paul Scott, Planning, Ryelands Primary and Nursery, Sarah Jones MP, Schools, Tony Newman, Transport, Whitgift Foundation, Woodside | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

MP Barwell barred from speaking at academy planning meeting

Posted on February 24, 2015 by insidecroydon

MP Gavin Barwell has been banned from speaking on behalf of his constituents at a crucial planning meeting at Croydon Town Hall on Thursday night. The meeting is due to consider controversial proposals to shoehorn a six-form-of-entry Oasis academy secondary … Continue reading →

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Town Hall’s propaganda posters may re-appear as leaflets

Posted on February 22, 2015 by insidecroydon

It was not only the gobby fac totem of a local MP who power-steered his way into a car crash interview last week. The leader of the council, Tony Newman, was at it as well. Croydon’s #PosterGate took an inevitable … Continue reading →

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Barwell aide: ‘Gavin has no idea. He trusts me to do whatever’

Posted on February 19, 2015 by insidecroydon

Further proof, as if any were needed, that Mario Creatura has been hired at considerable public expense by local Tory MP Gavin Barwell to spend much of his time managing his boss’s political career prospects, rather than actually doing any … Continue reading →

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Underwood leads opposition to Waddon’s flyover to Flyover

Posted on February 17, 2015 by insidecroydon

Peter Underwood, the Green Party’s parliamentary candidate for Croydon South, has launched a petition against the plans to build urban motorways through Waddon. Transport for London has announced a proposal to build a multi-lane flyover – with possibly five or … Continue reading →

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Date set for Winston McKenzie to fight for his UKIP future

Posted on February 16, 2015 by insidecroydon

A showdown over the future of UKIP as an organised political party in Croydon will take place next week, with an extraordinary general meeting (another one) of the shambolic Lambeth and Croydon North branch. The Lambeth and Croydon North branch … Continue reading →

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Twitter witnesses Croydon’s St Valentine’s Day massacre

Posted on February 15, 2015 by insidecroydon

Conservative Party activists in London have recently been in receipt of a guide on how to use social media in election campaigns. The guide offers glowing praise for the way that Croydon MP, Gavin Barwell, and his office tea boy, … Continue reading →

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VIDEO: Power of protest sees public questions on agenda

Posted on February 14, 2015 by insidecroydon

The South London Waste Partnership, the joint committee of four boroughs – Croydon, Sutton, Merton and Kingston – that wants to start industrial-scale waste incineration in the midst of a high-density residential area, is to hold its next meeting in … Continue reading →

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Poster propaganda prompts Barwell into another costly error

Posted on February 13, 2015 by insidecroydon

The Croydon Labour brains trust (ha!) that is running the Town Hall has managed to score yet another political own-goal, handing a gilt-edged opportunity for Gavin Barwell, the MP for the Whitgift Foundation, to boost his flagging credibility. From the … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Emily Benn, Gavin Barwell, Nathan Elvery, Sarah Jones MP, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

How MP for Whitgift Foundation has lobbied ‘Inspector Blight’

Posted on February 4, 2015 by insidecroydon

STEVEN DOWNES reports on a Tory MP’s latest failure to declare his interests in a £1 billion redevelopment of central Croydon The official inquiry into Croydon Council’s Compulsory Purchase Order for property in and around the Whitgift Centre began yesterday. … Continue reading →

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Tory councillors warned over failure to pay party levy

Posted on February 3, 2015 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s Tory group on the council is feeling the financial pressure, and some elected councillors have been issued with warnings by local Conservative officials after failing to make payments from their council allowances into the campaign fund being used to … Continue reading →

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UKIP Croydon leader forced to apologise for ‘crass’ members

Posted on February 2, 2015 by insidecroydon

Ahead of UKIP’s candidate selection meeting tonight, Peter Staveley, the party’s branch chairman in Croydon, has issued an apology to the family and friends of Councillor Gerry Ryan, who died last month, for what he describes as “the crass actions” … Continue reading →

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96 days to go and councillors’ self-interest is showing

Posted on January 31, 2015 by insidecroydon

Have you had someone with a rosette knock at your door yet? You will, says WALTER CRONXITE, you will. Though how the tax-payers of Croydon will benefit from one of the longest election campaigns in history is questionable Fed up … Continue reading →

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Staveley tells Kippers he’s ‘very upset’ over Selhurst

Posted on January 31, 2015 by insidecroydon

Peter Staveley, the UKIP parliamentary candidate in Croydon Central and the chairman of the only UKIP branch still regarded by their own party as competent to operate in the borough, has issued a furious email to his local colleagues over … Continue reading →

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UKIP call for Selhurst by-election may cost tax-payer £20,000

Posted on January 30, 2015 by insidecroydon

The disrespectful and impatient move by three UKIP members to demand a Town Hall by-election in Selhurst ward could cost the Council Tax-payers of Croydon up to £20,000. As exclusively revealed earlier this week by Inside Croydon, UKIP members Emmanuel … Continue reading →

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UKIP condemned for election call ahead of councillor’s funeral

Posted on January 28, 2015 by insidecroydon

UKIP’s out-of-control members in Croydon, who are usually fronted by the notoriously incompetent Winston McKenzie, have struck again, causing widespread disgust by impatiently demanding a by-election in Selhurst ward following the death of widely admired Labour Councillor Gerry Ryan. Ryan’s … Continue reading →

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Survey predicts MP Barwell is facing capital ‘punishment’

Posted on January 27, 2015 by insidecroydon

Even the Evening Boris is predicting that Gavin Barwell, the MP for the Whitgift Foundation, will lose his parliamentary seat at the General Election in 100 days time. Barwell had London Mayor Boris Johnson attend his glitzy campaign launch last … Continue reading →

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POLL: Back our scheme to save Purley Pool – permanently

Posted on January 26, 2015 by insidecroydon

FLIP FLOP (Part 94): Purley Pool has been given a reprieve, of sorts. Following an announcement this morning by Tony Newman, the council leader, the only public swimming pool serving a vast catchment area in the south of the borough … Continue reading →

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Jones’s campaign given £10,000 boost by ex-LibDem peer

Posted on January 22, 2015 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE on the latest intriguing developments in Croydon’s marginal parliamentary constituency Sarah Jones, Labour’s parliamentary candidate in Croydon Central, has been given a £10,000 donation towards her campaign funds by someone who sat in parliament as a member of … Continue reading →

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