Category Archives: Chris Philp MP

Work to build lifts at Coulsdon South to commence next month

Posted on April 17, 2019 by

Work is to begin at Coulsdon South next month to build lifts and a footbridge to provide step-free access to both platforms at the station. Network Rail is carrying out the work as part of a £300million Access For All … Continue reading →

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MPs warn Palace of ‘racism and violence’ of Lads Alliance

Posted on April 4, 2019 by

In an extraordinary demonstration of cross-party action (for Croydon, at any rate), all three of the borough’s MPs, plus the council leader and councillors, have written to Crystal Palace Football Club to ask them to distance themselves publicly from the … Continue reading →

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Council must accept ‘build anything, anywhere’ is not a policy

Posted on April 2, 2019 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Fewer than a hundred protestors turned up at the Town Hall last night in support of MP Chris Philp’s planning demo. The default position of the Labour group that controls the council was to dismiss their concerns by … Continue reading →

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Excrement ‘hand-delivered’ to councillor in row over planning

Posted on April 1, 2019 by

Being a councillor is becoming an increasingly shitty proposition. Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports ahead of tonight’s Town Hall meeting on how ‘a council motion’ has taken on whole new meaning Tension is running high at the Town Hall, … Continue reading →

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MP Philp offers Tory manifesto preview at Coulsdon debate

Posted on March 30, 2019 by

And you thought you might get away without having to go to the polling station at all in 2019. It is looking increasingly possible that, borough-wide, there will  be at least one election day coming up, with a General Election, … Continue reading →

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Prime Minister agrees to quit – How your MP voted on Brexit

Posted on March 28, 2019 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on how jobless figures in Croydon might increase by three, but perhaps not for a little time yet So, has Brexit become Texit? After last night’s performance at Westminster’s Palace of Varieties, where Theresa May, the … Continue reading →

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Politicians’ posturing and positioning as Brexit chaos reigns

Posted on March 25, 2019 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE tracks the activities of Croydon’s Town Hall and Westminster elites over a weekend where the fate of the nation appeared ever more precarious, in some part thanks to the ill-judged interventions of sometime MP Gavin Barwell … Continue reading →

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