Tag Archives: Budget 2024

Perry and Kerswell ask for your ideas to fix their budget mess

Posted on November 1, 2024 by insidecroydon

Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on Mayor Perry and the council directors’ latest lame efforts to make a (empty) silk purse out of a debt-laden sow’s ear Could there ever have been a more misleading headline to a council … Continue reading →

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£40bn of tax rises – but local councils left waiting for an answer

Posted on October 30, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Labour’s first Budget in 14 years made no mention of councils with ‘toxic debt’ or any reframing of the central government’s settlement with local authorities. Political editor WALTER CRONXITE assesses what has been described as ‘a mixed … Continue reading →

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Barwell’s sympathy: ‘This was always going to be difficult’

Posted on October 30, 2024 by insidecroydon

BUDGET 2024: Inside Croydon has already interviewed an Oxford professor about the state of the economy and sent an open letter to Rachel Reeves about what needs to be done for England’s beleagured local councils. Now it seems the Chancellor’s … Continue reading →

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Dear Rachel: Croydon’s a microcosm for much of what is wrong

Posted on October 24, 2024 by insidecroydon

Ahead of next Wednesday’s Budget, the first Labour Budget in 14 years, columnist ANDREW FISHER, right, has penned this open letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves Dear Rachel, Record NHS waiting lists, a housing crisis, growing levels of child poverty, backlogs … Continue reading →

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There’s good reason politicians are more unpopular than ever

Posted on March 8, 2024 by insidecroydon

After a week of two budget debates, one in the House of Commons, one at Croydon Town Hall, ANDREW FISHER reckons it is time that our politicians stopped pretending… British politics are in a dire state, nationally and locally, as … Continue reading →

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