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Tag Archives: Andrew Fisher
Battle to win the narrative sees a fight for 17% ‘don’t knows’
With a little more than a month before the Town Hall elections, ANDREW FISHER, pictured left, sifts through the shifting opinion polls, nationally and across London, to see what we can learn about how people might vote in Croydon Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Andrew Fisher, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Jason Perry, London-wide issues, Sarah Jones MP, South Croydon, Val Shawcross
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Budget reminder: ‘Better to break the law than break the poor’
ANDREW FISHER waded through the council spending reports and endured last night’s Town Hall meeting so that you didn’t have to… Croydon’s finances are in a state. The blame for that lies with the Conservative government that has slashed Croydon’s … Continue reading
We need serious solutions to tackle the capital’s crime crisis
A Labour front-bench spokesman was told this week that his suggestion to ‘name and shame’ recreational drugs users was ‘nonsense’. In his latest column, ANDREW FISHER looks at his party’s recurring problems when they try to flex their law and … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Crime, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Policing, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Cressida Dick, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, knife crime, Labour, London, Mayor, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE, youth knife crime
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What a waste! Tory billions could pay to freeze your Council Tax
The Conservative government is punishing the people of Croydon by refusing to write off any of the council’s debts – but they are happy to write off £13billion from their own cock-ups in Whitehall. By ANDREW FISHER Croydon Council has … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Fisher, Boris Johnson, Conservative, coronavirus, Council Tax, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, John McDonnell MP, Labour, Tony Newman, Tory
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Labour’s disciplinary procedures are all about factionalism
ANDREW FISHER (pictured right), Director of Policy at the Labour Party when Jeremy Corbyn was leader, questions the dubious procedures, the lack of due process and even bullying in the treatment of some Croydon colleagues As reported by Inside Croydon … Continue reading
Gove won’t ‘level up’ with an extra £1.50 per person per year
With the government’s settlement for local councils announced this week, our columnist ANDREW FISHER takes a look at what Michael Gove and his so-called ‘Levelling Up’ department is really offering “Billions more for councils to build back better” reads the … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Andrew Fisher, Callton Young, Children's Services, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Val Shawcross
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Conservative, Council Tax, Council Tax Support, Croydon, Croydon Council, Department for Levelling Up, DLUHC, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Michael Gove, Tory
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‘Managed democracy’ stifles members’ interest in the Mayor
In his latest column, ANDREW FISHER (left) zooms in on the inward-looking and slow process for Labour to choose the party’s candidate to stand for election as the borough’s first executive Mayor Having stifled members’ options, the selection panel in … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Andrew Fisher, Callton Young, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Jamie Audsley, Ken Livingstone, Sadiq Khan, Steve Reed MP, Val Shawcross
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Callton Young, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Steve Reed OBE, Val Shawcross
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Air pollution is a real killer, but council has caved in to cars
In his latest exclusive column for this website, ANDREW FISHER says that Croydon has capitulated to the Tories and a local MP over its traffic-reduction measures “Think globally, act locally” was one of the first slogans used by Friends of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Fisher, CHNs, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon Healthy Neighbourhoods, Croydon North, Greta Thunberg, Labour, London, Low Traffic Neighbourhood, LTNs, Sadiq Khan, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE, Tory
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Housing’s free market free-for-all only benefits landlords
There’s a simple way to solve the ‘housing crisis’, says ANDREW FISHER: build homes for the many, not investment opportunities for the few Private renters in London are typically having to spend almost 40 per cent of their income on … Continue reading
Chancellor’s Council Tax bombshell: how Budget hits Croydon
Our new columnist ANDREW FISHER, pictured left, looks at what this week’s Budget will mean for Croydon’s residents, businesses and for the services provided by the local authority Nearly 50,000 households in Croydon receive Universal Credit. The £20 per week … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Business, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Education, LSBU campus
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Budget, Council Tax, Rishi Sunak, Universal Credit
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Starmer’s Labour is ‘losing members, losing funds, losing staff’
Former Corbyn adviser warns that if the opposition leader can’t improve the fortunes of Labour, ‘then he has to go’, as it emerges that Croydon-based firm has been doing consultancy work as the party is making dozens of staff redundant. … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Andrew Fisher, David Evans, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Andrew Fisher, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Evans, Labour, Sir Keir Starmer, Tony Newman
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The cuts: Fisher’s Folly to be sold and 3-weekly bin collections
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The problem facing Croydon Council as it seeks to balance its books is that, after a decade of Tory austerity, there’s precious little left to cut. STEVEN DOWNES reports The frustration with the slow pace of progress … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Alisa Flemming, Andrew Fisher, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Libraries, Lisa Taylor, Refuse collection, Report in the Public Interest, Schools, Section 114 notice, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Andrew Fisher, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Lisa Taylor, London Borough of Croydon, S114, Section 114, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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Newman backs former Blair aide for Labour Party top job
Our Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on how Croydon has two prominent candidates for the position of general secretary Tony Newman, the increasingly beleaguered leader of Croydon Council, has given his backing to his old mate David Evans as he … Continue reading
Corbyn’s ex-aide Fisher: the leadership race is down to two
Until December, ANDREW FISHER (pictured left) was Jeremy Corbyn’s senior policy adviser. A member of Croydon Central Constituency Labour Party, over the weekend Fisher reflected on how he sees the outcome of his local members’ vote in the selection process … Continue reading
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Labour’s radical manifesto promises to end the housing crisis
Jeremy Corbyn this morning launched Labour’s manifesto for the General Election, in which he confirmed plans for wide-ranging re-nationalisation of public utilities, an £11billion windfall tax on the oil industry to pay for Labour’s environmental policies, and to build 100,000 … Continue reading
Posted in 2019 General Election
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, London
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South Norwood’s Andrew Fisher resigns as Corbyn aide
Andrew Fisher, the influential policy adviser to the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and the author of the Labour’s widely admired 2017 For The Many Not The Few manifesto, is standing down from his position, in the latest shock … Continue reading
Corbyn aide enters row over Lewis Hamilton’s tax record
Andrew Fisher, the chief policy adviser to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, last night jumped into the simmering row about the BBC’s annual sports review show by suggesting that if Lewis Hamilton wants to win Sports Personality of the Year, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Fisher, BBC, Lewis Hamilton, Sports Personality of the Year, SPOTY
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Labour pains as rival right-wing groups cling to control
WALTER CRONXITE on the north-south divide over candidate selection for next year’s council elections A war of words has broken out between rival right-wingers in Croydon’s Labour Party, as they fight to retain positions, patronage and power following their stunning … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alisa Flemming, Andrew Fisher, Clive Fraser, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, David White, Emily Benn, Patsy Cummings, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Andy Bagnall, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Jo Milligan, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Tony Newman
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Corbyn policy aide Andrew Fisher: ‘We changed politics’
Andrew Fisher, the former union official from Croydon who has been working as Jeremy Corbyn’s policy adviser for the past two years, says that many of the “political myths” of the 1990s have been laid to rest. “Socialist politics have … Continue reading
Posted in 2017 General Election, Andrew Fisher, Croydon Central
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‘I’m not influential’ says influential Labour figure
Andrew Fisher, the Croydon resident who is policy adviser to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has said that his ranking as the ninth most influential figure on the left is “obviously nonsense”. But as Corbyn’s speech to the Labour Party Conference … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Andrew Fisher, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Housing
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Progress MP Reed can’t make Top 100 ‘figures of the left’
A Croydon political thinker and activist who survived an attempt to have him kicked out of the Labour Party is included in the top 10 of a respected political commentator’s “100 Most Influential People On The Left”, published ahead of … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Croydon North, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Steve Reed OBE
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Loyalty will be up for debate when Philp takes on Benn again
It’s The Posh-Off II: The Re-match. Chris Philp, now the Tory MP for Croydon South, is again to take on The Honorable Emily Benn at the Coulsdon and Purley Debating Society in its first event of 2016, on a somewhat … Continue reading
Fisher’s suspension lifted but the Progress purge continues
The Labour Party this afternoon announced that it had lifted the suspension on Andrew Fisher, the socialist author and party member from Croydon who has been appointed as policy adviser to Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader. The decision is likely … Continue reading
Corbyn has ‘full confidence’ in aide, as Labour suspend Fisher
The Progress pogrom against Jeremy Corbyn claimed its first victim tonight, when Andrew Fisher, the Labour leader’s policy adviser, had his party membership suspended. Fisher, however, seems set to continue to work in Corbyn’s office and he confirmed to Inside … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Croydon South, Emily Benn
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Steve Reed OBE, The Hon Emily Benn
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