Category Archives: Mario Creatura

Tory leadership rivals express contempt for Barwell’s team

Posted on June 7, 2019 by

It would appear that no matter how hard Gavin Barwell and his Croydon cronies try to polish up their CVs after their disastrous couple of years at the heart of one of the most incompetent governments in this country’s long … Continue reading →

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Can Labour and Tories stop ‘The Peterborough Effect’ here?

Posted on June 2, 2019 by

After a week to let the dust settle and some of the implications of the voting sink in, our resident psephologist WALTER CRONXITE crunches more numbers from the European elections and discovers that two of the borough’s sitting MPs have … Continue reading →

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Croydon Tories’ vote collapses in Euro election meltdown

Posted on May 27, 2019 by

Perhaps ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ is not such a bad campaign slogan after all. Our political editor WALTER CRONXITE crunches the numbers from last night’s European declarations across London, where only UKIP’s Gerard Batten was a bigger loser than the Conservatives … Continue reading →

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London opinion poll says Tories could regain Croydon Central

Posted on May 14, 2019 by

WALTER CRONXITE on some worrying numbers for Labour in Croydon Be afraid. Be very afraid. If a General Election was held this week, then this clown (right) would become Croydon Central’s Member of Parliament. That’s according to the latest London-only … Continue reading →

Posted in 2019 European elections, 2020 London elections, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Coulsdon West, Croydon Central, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, London Assembly, Mario Creatura, Neil Garratt, Sarah Jones MP, Sutton Council | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

Creatura’s Town Hall promotion could signal early end of May

Posted on May 14, 2019 by

The next full meeting of our council is Monday’s anachronistic annual ‘mayor-making’ ceremony in the Town Hall chamber. Ahead of it, the council’s two political groups have been tinkering with their line-ups. Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports that one … Continue reading →

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Tory splits grow as Barwell ‘flounces’ from social media group

Posted on May 6, 2019 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports that the Croydon Conservative Party is not a happy place to be in the midst of Brexit and local election carnage “Gavin Barwell left”. That was the final message on Friday night in an increasingly … Continue reading →

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PM’s chief of staff helps to lose Tory council seat in Woking

Posted on May 3, 2019 by

Oh dear. With friends like these… Gavin Barwell, as Inside Croydon’s loyal reader will know, is the former MP for Croydon Central. After writing the book How To Lose A Marginal Seat, Barwell duly lost his parliamentary seat in 2017. … Continue reading →

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