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Category Archives: 2018 council elections
Snouts in the trough: how you pay for local election campaign
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: When deciding who to vote for this Thursday, consider carefully the money paid to councillors in ‘allowances’, reports BELLE MONT, our Sutton Council correspondent It’s the sort of question you could easily imagine one Sutton borough councillor asking … Continue reading
Sutton LibDems horrified by unreal McCoy’s car crash hustings
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Hustings held ahead of this year’s local elections here in south London have been noticeably… well, dull. Until Tuesday night over in Carshalton, where Sutton LibDems, fighting to retain control of the council, sent in one of their … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Environment, Jayne McCoy, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Beddington North, Carshalton, Conservative, Jayne McCoy, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Tim Crowley, Wallington
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Jobs for the boys, as Tony’s cronies are promised promotion
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Labour leader Tony Newman is already handing out jobs to councillors, and wannabe councillors, ahead of next week’s Town Hall elections. As WALTER CRONXITE notes, it may be a sign of supreme confidence, or absolute contempt for the … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Clive Fraser, South Norwood, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, New Addington, South Norwood, Tony Newman
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LibDems in Old Coulsdon catch the 999 bus over police cuts
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Croydon’s LibDems, after a meeting in an Old Coulsdon telephone box, have just produced their manifesto. On policing matters, though, they haven’t missed the bus, as WALTER CRONXITE reports The local Liberal Democrats are leaving it late to … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Coulsdon, Crime, Gill Hickson, Old Coulsdon, Policing, Richard Howard
Tagged Crime, Gill Hickson, Liberal Democrats, Old Coulsdon, Policing, Richard Howard
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Charity Commission warns mosque over links with MP Brake
JERRY MANDER, our dodgy-goings-ons-in-Sutton correspondent, on the stern warning issued to a Muslim charity in Carshalton The Liberal Democrats who control Sutton Council are in a spot of bother with the Charity Commission – again – just weeks before the … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP
Tagged MCWAS, Ruth Dombey, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP
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Bishops Walk and the loneliness of the ‘paper’ candidate
This could be called “The problem with Monks Hill”, or “A Tale of Two Villages”, or “Bishops v Monks”, or “Who Cares?” KEN TOWL takes a walk on the less-than-wild-side, as a “paper” candidate in the local elections Yesterday, I … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Addington, Ken Towl, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Addington, Conservative, Ken Towl, Labour, Selsdon and Addington Village, Tory
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It’s time to end the Town Hall’s Punch and Judy show
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Local election candidate PETER UNDERWOOD, pictured, says that next week’s visit to the polling station is your opportunity to vote for change A week on Thursday, you will elect your local councillors to sit on Croydon Council for … Continue reading
Gerrymandering suspicions surface on streets of Addiscombe
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: After months of delays, a road in what Labour calls a ‘key marginal’ ward is suddenly to be resurfaced. Some are suggesting the council work is being co-ordinated to favour Labour’s local election candidates. WALTER CRONXITE reports Residents … Continue reading
Tory election candidate looks to double-up on his allowances
BELLE MONT, our Sutton correspondent, reports on a candidate for whom one set of council wages is clearly not enough It would seem that there are no limits to the amount of public service Paul Newman is prepared to offer. … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Sutton Council
Tagged Dorking, Mole Valley, Paul Newman, Sutton Council, Worcester Park
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Lambert: ‘Disgrace’ of Sutton’s destruction of green spaces
Thanks to Brexit, MEPs are now an endangered species. Tomorrow morning one of them, Jean Lambert, London’s Green Party representative to the European Parliament, will be visiting the River Wandle in Beddington to highlight the plight of local wildlife and … Continue reading
Say it ain’t so, Joe: Lee has changed his tune on policing
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Croydon’s Tories seem confused about the home address of one of their local election candidates, while another has previously campaigned for more spending on police and youth facilities, when he was a LibDem parliamentary election candidate. WALTER CRONXITE … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Ian Parker, Jeet Bains, Joseph Lee, Thornton Heath
Tagged Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon Council, Jeet Bains, Joseph Lee, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Thornton Heath, Tory
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Pollard: Losing on planning legal appeals is ‘money well spent’
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Our eager Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, spent the evening at a debate in Old Coulsdon, so that you didn’t have to Not content with overseeing the publication of an uncosted local election manifesto that contains at least … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Andrew Pelling, Coulsdon, Tim Pollard, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Coulsdon, Labour, Mario Creatura, Tim Pollard, Tory
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Blind election candidate challenges government over equalities
A local election candidate has this week started Judicial Review proceedings on the Home Secretary regarding the Government’s failure to support disabled candidates. Emily Brothers is blind and hearing impaired, but in 2015 she stood as the Labour candidate in … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Charlie Mansell, Emily Brothers, Sutton Council
Tagged Charlie Mansell, Emily Brothers
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Still ‘Ambitious’ four years on: Labour’s thin offering
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Our political editor WALTER CRONXITE thumbs through another manifesto, so that you don’t have to Is Tony Newman an avid reader of the works of Gavin Barwell’s old mentor, Lord Cashcroft? You might think so on reading Labour’s … Continue reading
Dombey’s LibDems accused of ‘cheating’ election in Sutton
ELECTIONS EXCLUSIVE: Our Sutton dodgy goings-on editor, JERRY MANDER, on how the rules of purdah have been broken repeatedly by the local Liberal Democrats as they ignore orders from council officers not to abuse taxpayer-funded resources The Liberal Democrats who … Continue reading
Shameless: 19 LibDem councillors breaking election rules
These are the names of 19 LibDem councillors, across nine wards, for whom Inside Croydon has evidence of their literature being delivered, unredacted, in breach of purdah rules. Of these, two councillors were witnessed delivering their own unredacted leaflets. CARSHALTON … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Wendy Mathys
Tagged Liberal Democrats, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council
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Here we go again as McKenzie tries to make another comeback
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports on the finalised candidates list for the Town Hall elections, which eventually got published by the council while the returning officer was on holiday He’s back. Again. After an absence of nearly … Continue reading
Suspicion over Negrini’s delay in publishing candidate lists
Croydon has been left trailing by the rest of London yet again, by mid-morning today having failed to publish the list of candidates for the local elections on May 3, nearly 70 hours after Friday’s 4pm deadline. The failure to … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini
Tagged Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman
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Under-fire Sutton LibDems are beginning to feel the squeeze
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Over in Sutton, the political party which controls the council is sending out distress signals ahead of the May 3 vote, as BELLE MONT reports Liberal Democrats have clung on to power in Sutton over the years by … Continue reading
UKIP find only eight candidates to stand in local elections
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, rounds-up the latest additions to candidate lists from the LibDems, Greens and UKIP for May 3 UKIP, a party without a leader and, post-Brexit, seemingly without any purpose, has virtually abandoned the pretence … Continue reading
£83.78m – the incredible price of Tories’ uncosted promises
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: From £10 refunds when your bins aren’t collected to council-funded zip wires. Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, has had his abacus out to tot-up the cost of the promises contained in Croydon Conservatives’ local election manifesto The 2018 … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Tim Pollard, Tory
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Pollard’s manifesto makes election a question of honesty
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Four years ago, the Conservatives in Croydon demonstrated their contempt for the electorate by not even bothering with a manifesto. This time round, as political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports, what they have produced is simply not very credible … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Bernard Weatherill House, Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Carillion, Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, Jason Perry, Libraries, Maria Gatland, Michael Neal, Mike Fisher, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley, Shirley North, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, North Shirley, Paul Scott, Purley, South Croydon, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Speakman quits Tory party and launches attack on ageism
EXCLUSIVE: WALTER CRONXITE on the latest recriminations over party selections for the local elections next month Donald Speakman, a Tory councillor in Purley for the past 16 years, has resigned from the Conservative Party and has started a campaign to … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Badsha Quadir, Donald Speakman, Purley, Purley Pool, Simon Brew, Tim Pollard
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Donald Speakman, Labour, Mario Creatura, Purley, Tim Pollard, Tory
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Gotcha! MP Brake caught on Twitter ‘joining’ the LibDems
BELLE MONT, our Sutton correspondent, on an embarrassing gaffe from the local MP Tory councillors in Sutton were today gleefully claiming that Tom Brake, the Liberal Democrat MP for Carshalton and Wallington, had “outed himself” as the user of bogus, … Continue reading
