Tag Archives: Clive Lewis MP

You can take Steve Reed to water, but you can’t make him think

ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, in his latest column for Inside Croydon, looks at the case for ending the ‘legalised larceny’ that is water privatisation, as the environment secretary sinks deeper into the mire The review commissioned by Steve Reed, the … Continue reading

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40 Labour MPs sign letter against disability cuts – but Croydon’s Reed, Jones and Irons are not among them

‘Cuts don’t create jobs, they just cause more hardship’ says a letter signed by dozens ofMPs from the right as well as the left of the Labour Party, objecting to proposed cuts in disability benefits Croydon’s three Labour MPs today … Continue reading

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Labour’s letting water companies take the pee with rising bills

ANDREW FISHER on the contradictions, ironies and utter inadequacy of the government’s approach to the water company polluters; plus even more Council Tax rip-offs coming our way At the end of January, the government passed the Water (Special Measures) Bill … Continue reading

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Thornton Heath activist Wadsworth awarded union gold badge

By STEVEN DOWNES Marc Wadsworth, the campaigning journalist and broadcaster who was expelled by the Labour Party on trumped-up charges, has been awarded with the highest honour available to his trades union, the National Union of Journalists’ gold badge. The … Continue reading

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MP calls on Corbyn to ‘come out fighting’ over Wadsworth

High-profile Labour MP Clive Lewis has called on Jeremy Corbyn, “to come out fighting” over the controversial expulsion from the party of Marc Wadsworth, the anti-racism campaigner from Thornton Heath. Wadsworth was expelled as a Labour member in April, after … Continue reading

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