November saw more articles viewed on this website than any other month so far in 2015, as Inside Croydon’s loyal reader was looking for more news about the Labour Party’s little local difficulties, growing concerns about the borough’s schools, and the latest episode from Winston McKenzie, now “ex-UKIP”.
We were also the first to report the inter-galactic piss-take from South Norwood’s most active publicists (which other publications seemed to take sooo very seriously). Beam us up, Scotty:
Lord Harris: carpet salesman turned educational carpet bagger
1, Hundreds of teachers leaving Harris academies each year
A Guardian newspaper report sourced by the Anti-Academies Alliance, from a Freedom of Information request, had troubling implications from what are meant to be some of the best state schools in Croydon, where the personnel turnover in the staff room might suggest that not all is as happy as it ought to be.
2, Benn’s attempt at Labour purge highlights support for WEP
First published at the end of October, this was a story of crass hypocrisy which continued to fascinate our loyal reader, as the subject of The Hon Emily Benn’s complaint, Andrew Fisher, the political adviser to Jeremy Corbyn, was first suspended by the Labour Party, then given a very stern talking to. To date, no action has been taken over The Hon Emily’s own dalliances with other parties.
3, Norwood Junction ready for take-off with new station name
Well, if the council leadership will insist on coming up with yet more plainly ridiculous suggestions – we’re surely just a few months away from another city status waste of time – then Messrs Newman and Elvery ought to expect to have the piss taken out of them by those fine people at the South Norwood Tourist Board. Even the Daily Wail followed up on this, the latest instance of Croydon’s leadership creating their very own Black Hole. Continue reading
