Tag Archives: Croydon West

MP Jones ‘deeply concerned’ at council cuts to youth service

Posted on January 8, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: While Jason Perry, Croydon’s part-time Mayor, recommends a pay rise for himself, he’s cutting a youth service in what has been described as a ‘stealthy’ move, one which could have ‘catastrophic’ consequences. By WALTER CRONXITE, political editor … Continue reading →

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All Croydon’s MPs vote for controversial Assisted Dying Bill

Posted on November 30, 2024 by insidecroydon

Film star Adam Pearson says he is ‘heartbroken’ by Commons vote: ‘We have a government who are willing to help disabled people die whilst doing nothing to help them live’ All four of Croydon’s MPs – three Labour, one Conservative … Continue reading →

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Just 2% of Croydon voters join petition call for another election

Posted on November 26, 2024 by insidecroydon

Tax-avoiding millionaires and newspaper owners are getting all excited about calls for another election. The same people who have said it’s too soon for another vote on Brexit, reports WALTER CRONXITE, political editor A petition raised by a publican in … Continue reading →

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Post Office closure deals new blow for Croydon High Street

Posted on November 13, 2024 by insidecroydon

Union boss describes closures plan by scandal-hit business as ‘immoral’, as 115 Crown Post Offices are to go and 1,000 workers face redundancy In the latest low blow to blighted Croydon High Street, the Post Office has this morning confirmed … Continue reading →

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Keir Starmer! Steve Reed! Come on down! The price is right!

Posted on October 11, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: As the new government under Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney reaches its 100-day milestone, former Labour councillor BRIAN FINEGAN shares his perspective Harold Wilson famously declared that the Labour Party “is a moral crusade or it is nothing”. … Continue reading →

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Gifts, car crash interviews and Starmer’s banger of a speech

Posted on September 26, 2024 by insidecroydon

After a week going through the debates and expenses declarations at the party’s annual conference in Liverpool, ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, analyses the performances of the MPs who represent Croydon It should have been an uplifting and upbeat affair: the … Continue reading →

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Labour MPs’ ‘tears’ won’t keep the elderly warm this winter

Posted on September 12, 2024 by insidecroydon

Why were Labour MPs threatened with losing the party whip, and what does it mean? ANDREW FISHER on how Croydon’s MPs voted over the removal of pensioners’ Winter Fuel Payment The decision to cut the Winter Fuel Payment for 9-out-of-10 … Continue reading →

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Croydon’s MPs vote to keep the Tories’ two-child benefit cap

Posted on July 24, 2024 by insidecroydon

For some new MPs, last night was the first time they got to vote in the House of Commons. Croydon’s Labour MPs voted to support Tory policies that condemn more than 3,000 households in the borough to remain in poverty. … Continue reading →

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After ‘The Croydon Effect’ comes Labour’s ‘The Thin Mandate’

Posted on July 10, 2024 by insidecroydon

So what’s next? How does last Thursday’s voting at the General Election pan out for Croydon’s part-time Mayor? WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, crunches some figures Croydon’s residents may well be relieved, delighted even, that apart from the possible, occasional local … Continue reading →

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Election complaint over Reform’s ‘ghost’ candidate in Croydon

Posted on July 9, 2024 by insidecroydon

STEVEN DOWNES, who looks nothing like this byline photograph, reports on the growing suspicions surrounding some of the far-right’s nominations for the General Election The Reform UK candidate in at least one Croydon seat at last week’s General Election is … Continue reading →

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Reed and Jones are handed jobs in Starmer’s new government

Posted on July 8, 2024 by insidecroydon

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the roles given to Croydon’s Labour MPs following last week’s General Election While the messaging out of Whitehall was of fast, decisive action by the new government on a number of headline issues – scrapping … Continue reading →

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How some of Croydon’s election results just don’t add up

Posted on July 6, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: After his second election campaign in five months, PETER UNDERWOOD, who stood for the Green Party in Croydon East, reflects on how the number of votes cast ought to be a warning to the two larger parties We … Continue reading →

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#GeneralElection2024: final results for Croydon constituencies

Posted on July 5, 2024 by insidecroydon

Following our full and detailed live coverage of election night, here are the full, formal results from the General Election for Croydon’s seats.

Posted in 2024 General Election, Ben Taylor, Chris Philp MP, Croydon East, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Croydon West, Lambeth Council, Natasha Irons, Peter Underwood, Ria Patel, Sarah Jones MP, Scott Ainslie, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

#GeneralElection2024: Through-the-night results coverage

Posted on July 4, 2024 by insidecroydon

#GE2024: HERE WE GO Welcome to Inside Croydon’s unmatched coverage of the 2024 General Election results night for south London. Working with our colleagues at GreenwichWire, we have reporters and citizen journalists at the counts in Croydon (natch), Sutton, Brixton … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024 General Election, Ben Taylor, Bexley, Bromley Council, Carshalton and Wallington, Chris Philp MP, Croydon East, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Croydon West, Elliot Colburn, Lambeth Council, Luke Taylor MP, Natasha Irons, Outside Croydon, Peter Underwood, Reigate and Banstead Council, Ria Patel, Sarah Jones MP, Scott Ainslie, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North, Sutton and Cheam, Sutton Council | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 22 Comments

Can you vote for politicians who won’t answer your questions?

Posted on July 3, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON ELECTION QUESTIONS For this General Election, Inside Croydon offered a platform to candidates from across the political spectrum, from across the borough’s four constituencies. Much the same questions, their answers to be published at length. But some of the … Continue reading →

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Votes at 16 is a vote-winner say teenagers not allowed to vote

Posted on July 3, 2024 by insidecroydon

In the biggest potential change to the way we vote in Britain for more than 50 years, the Labour Party is proposing to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 if they form the government after tomorrow’s General Election. … Continue reading →

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Council official: 50% of postal votes have not been returned

Posted on July 2, 2024 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: Croydon election officials worry that thousands of voters won’t be able to use their postal ballots before the July 4 deadline because of issues with Royal Mail. By STEVEN DOWNES Senior council officials in charge of overseeing this week’s … Continue reading →

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‘All I see is a divided country, with more racism and more upset’

Posted on June 28, 2024 by insidecroydon

First-time voter CAITLIN CLIFFORD speaks to other General Election first-time voters about whether they will vote next Thursday, and about what issues really matter to them, discovering  just how unpopular the son of a tool-maker is with sixth-formers  After weeks … Continue reading →

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Latest poll predicts the implausible with Philp doing Houdini act

Posted on June 24, 2024 by insidecroydon

Labour candidates have been briefed to say nothing or to claim ‘Nuffink to do wiv me, Guv’ is their best way of dodging questions about their party’s bankrupting the borough, as the campaign crawls its way towards its final week. … Continue reading →

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Labour’s Jones took donation from fossil fuel PR lobbyists

Posted on June 22, 2024 by insidecroydon

There’s more than a sniff of sleaze about a donation accepted by one of Croydon Labour’s parliamentary candidates from lobbyists for vested interests in the fuel industry, reports STEVEN DOWNES Decarbonisation, you say? How about a donation from lobbyists who … Continue reading →

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Starmer’s a no-show for Labour’s secretive Fairfield Halls rally

Posted on June 20, 2024 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, wasted his morning turning up to see the son of a toolmaker, who swerved at the first sign of awkward questions and so missed out on seeing the mess made of Croydon by his Labour … Continue reading →

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Sutton and Cheam election hustings, Cheam Road, June 29

Posted on June 19, 2024 by insidecroydon
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Poundshop politician who puts the ‘sham’ into shambolic

Posted on June 18, 2024 by insidecroydon

ELECTION SKETCH: It was billed as a ‘hustings’, but was really nothing other than a rally for fringe party TTIP’s star candidate. KEN TOWL went along, so that you – and hundreds of others – didn’t have to “Somebody at … Continue reading →

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Voters being taken for granted as ‘battleground’ moves south

Posted on June 18, 2024 by insidecroydon

As postal voters start to receive their ballot papers ahead of the General Election on July 4, others in parts of Croydon are beginning to feel that their votes are being taken for granted by Tories and Labour, as our … Continue reading →

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Croydon West election just got interesting with Labour split

Posted on June 17, 2024 by insidecroydon

It has been slim pickings for surprises in Croydon’s election campaign so far, but tonight’s rally for a Taking The Initiative Party candidate might just cause a stir, reports our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE Probably the biggest surprise of the … Continue reading →

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