Category Archives: Sarah Jones MP

Creatura needs help from ‘Bust-up Boris’, as LibDems win seat

Posted on June 24, 2019 by

Two south London council by-elections in the past week suggest the LibDems might have a chance of breaking Croydon’s political duopoly, reports our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE Boris Johnson’s selection by the 0.15per cent of the population which comprises the … Continue reading →

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Did Barwell have his collar felt over the Grenfell fire tragedy?

Posted on June 21, 2019 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the continuing interrogation of senior Tory government figures over their inaction and incompetence Is it possible that Gavin Barwell, one of a string of Tory housing ministers who before the 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy failed … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon North, Gavin Barwell, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Theresa May’s ‘legacy’: a racist as successor, and Grenfell guilt

Posted on June 19, 2019 by

Our political editor WALTER CRONXITE hot-footed it to the House of Commons this lunchtime for Theresa Mayhem’s 90th session of PMQs, where this part of south London had a prominent part With the clock ticking down on the disastrous Premiership … Continue reading →

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Barwell and the ignored warnings that led to Grenfell tragedy

Posted on June 13, 2019 by

Gavin Barwell, the former housing minister and sometime Conservative MP for Croydon Central, could be hauled up before the public inquiry into the Grenfell disaster after an investigation by the website Inside Housing today published correspondence which shows that he, … Continue reading →

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Labour warns that education cuts threaten knife crime work

Posted on June 7, 2019 by

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner and Croydon MP Sarah Jones have warned that funding cuts to colleges and schools in Croydon risk jeopardising the good work being done in the borough to tackle knife crime. The Labour MPs met staff … 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 →

Posted in 2019 European elections, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Mario Creatura, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Scott’s cunning plan to squeeze in 3,000 new homes per year

Posted on June 1, 2019 by

KEN LEE on how increased housing  targets have forced the council into a rapid rethink of its Local Plan Just like Baldrick, Paul Scott has got a cunning plan. Another one. Controversial Town Hall figure Scott has been booked to … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley Way, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments