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Category Archives: Winston McKenzie
UKIP’s Winston McKenzie quizzed over Carnival payments
Winston McKenzie, the colourful UKIP parliamentary candidate for Croydon North, made unauthorised payments from local party funds towards the staging of the now infamous Croydon Carnival which he staged before the local elections earlier this year, Inside Croydon has discovered. … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon North, Selhurst, South Norwood, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Nigel Farage, Selhurst, South Norwood, Tory, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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UKIP’s McKenzie goes hurtling towards a speed bump
AUSTEN COOPER, of the Croydon Cycling Campaign, is familiar with handlebars, and also Twitter handles. And yesterday he noticed something suspicious as some in UKIP decided to attack road safety measures that are proven to save lives Something out of … Continue reading
Chump: UKIP candidate in legal threat against this website
STEVEN DOWNES, Inside Croydon’s editor, on the latest self-important politico who thinks he can bully and intimidate Poor old Winston McKenzie, UKIP’s branch chairman for Lambeth and Croydon North and now their parliamentary candidate for Croydon North. With each passing … Continue reading
Chump! UKIP picks McKenzie again for Croydon North
One step forward, two steps back for UKIP, as in the week that Douglas Carswell jumped ship from the Tories, their members in Croydon North opted to select their branch chairman, Winston McKenzie, as their parliamentary candidate for next May’s … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon North, Steve Reed MP, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Croydon, Croydon North, Member of parliament, Steve Reed OBE, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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Clacton gets Carswell, as McKenzie looks to Croydon again
Clacton’s to get Douglas Carswell. Croydon North looks as if it will get Winston McKenzie as its next UKIP parliamentary candidate. Again. As UKIP puffs out its chest at the thought of becoming a proper, grown-up political party, with a … Continue reading
McKenzie’s credibility gap could be too much even for UKIP
UKIP party members in Croydon South this afternoon choose their parliamentary candidate to contest next May’s General Election. Politically, it may prove to be Winston McKenzie’s last stand. Greater London offers pretty poor electoral pickings for the Eurosceptic party, but … Continue reading
UKIP carnival’s Winston McKenzie wants to stand again
There are lies, damned lies and statistics. So when do two people constitute “40 per cent”? When it is UKIP in Croydon trying (just a bit too hard, it seems) to portray itself as being “diverse”. And when you factor … Continue reading
For McKenzie’s political ambitions, the carnival is over
VOTE 2014: Winston McKenzie’s colourful career as a failed politician and hit-and-miss community activist has seen him accused in the past of not being able to organise the proverbial piss up in a brewery. After today’s shambles on North End, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, South Norwood, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Croydon, Nigel Farage, South Norwood, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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Croydon more Green than purple, but will they win any seats?
The deadline for entering candidates for May 22’s local elections was 4pm today. We have reported the key selections from Labour and the Conservatives across the borough over the past year, but only now do we have the complete list … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Greens, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield, Fieldway, Gordon Ross, Heathfield, Kenley, New Addington South, Norbury, Peter Staveley, Purley, Robert King, Sanderstead, Selhurst, Selsdon & Ballards, Shasha Khan, Shirley North, South Croydon, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Waddon, West Thornton, Winston McKenzie, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Kenley, Labour, Mike Fisher, New Addington, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Waddon
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Telegraph poll suggests UKIP poised to win Town Hall seats
The results of a national opinion poll, published yesterday, suggest strongly that UKIP might yet manage to get at least one councillor elected to Croydon Council on May 22, which could hand them the balance of power for the next … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield, Fieldway, New Addington South, Peter Staveley, Robert King, Shirley North, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fieldway, Labour, London Assembly, New Addington, Nigel Farage, UKIP
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100 days to go: UKIP names its Town Hall election candidates
With 100 days to go until Croydon’s local elections on May 22, UKIP has revealed the names of 17 candidates for wards in Croydon Central and South. UKIP has never had a councillor elected to Croydon Council, but 2014 may … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, 2014 council elections, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Central, Croydon South, Fairfield, Fieldway, Heathfield, Kenley, New Addington South, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon & Ballards, Shirley North, South Croydon, Waddon, Winston McKenzie, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Conservative, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon West, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Crystal Palace, Fairfield, Fieldway, Heathfield, Kenley, New Addington, Nigel Farage, Peter Staveley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon and Ballards, Shirley, South Croydon, South Croydon, Tory, UKIP, Waddon, Woodside
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“Bloomsday” in Croydon as McKenzie attacks UKIP colleagues
There was a large sigh of relief last night, audible from Purley to Katharine Street, as Tories across the borough realised that UKIP, the political “party” of own-goals and self-inflicted injuries, was about as much of a threat in Croydon … Continue reading
UKIP announces plans for 2014 Town Hall elections
UKIP, the UK Independence Party, intends to target Conservative-held wards in next year’s local council elections in Croydon and take full advantage of any confusion over the Tory-led government’s position on Europe. In 2014, UKIP will be seeking its first … Continue reading
Pelling predicts: by-election a battle for minor places
As the polling stations open across Croydon North this morning, Andrew Pelling, Inside Croydon‘s chief political correspondent, is predicting that the by-election will be won by Labour’s Steve Reed with an increased share of the vote. The parliamentary by-election is … Continue reading
UKIP’s “appalled” local chairman asks Croydon “to forgive”
Less than two days before voting begins in the Croydon North by-election, Winston McKenzie has been disowned by his own party’s local chairman who told Inside Croydon that he and other local UKIP members are “appalled” by their candidate’s homophobic … Continue reading
UKIP disowns Croydon candidate’s homophobic comments
Another year, another party looks in prospect for Winston McKenzie, if anyone will have him now, after he was disowned last night by his own UK Independence Party over his latest homophobic comments. McKenzie’s “colourful” political career has seen him … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, Croydon North, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Croydon, Croydon North, Labour, London, Nigel Farage, UK Independence, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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Jasper admits to using Twitter bots to drive election bid
Lee Jasper, the Respect (George Galloway) candidate for Thursday’s Croydon North by-election, today conceded that his campaign has been using controversial “Twitter bots”, programs to automatically generate Tweets, to give a false impression of the popularity of his campaign. “You … Continue reading
Bookies relegate Conservatives to fourth in election betting
Just as the execrable John McCririck might say, the Tories are friendless in Croydon North. Well, at least that’s as far as the bookmakers are concerned. With a week to go until polling day in Croydon North, Ladbrokes have pushed the … Continue reading
Union pulls out of hustings over exclusion of six candidates
One of the country’s biggest trades unions, the PCS, has pulled out of sponsorship and organisation of a hustings debate planned to be held in Thornton Heath on Tuesday evening because half the candidates for the November 29 Croydon North … Continue reading
UKIP’s Farage to campaign in Croydon against gay marriage
Nigel Farage , the leader of the UK Independence Party, is bringing further controversy to the Croydon North by-election, visiting the constituency this morning to support his candidate’s ailing campaign and specifically backing Winston McKenzie‘s remarks made in opposition to … Continue reading
UKIP candidate McKenzie fails to deliver his own brothers
The local media was expectant. UKIP’s entertaining candidate for the Croydon North by-election, Winston McKenzie, promised a sporting legends line-up at Thornton Heath yesterday to promote his campaign. “McKenzie Brothers, Clinton, Duke and Winston – The Dynasty of Champion Boxing … Continue reading
