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Tories accused of ‘pandering to prejudice’ over cycle lanes
The Conservatives’ Mayoral candidate is contradicting his own party leader over a roads improvement scheme in South Croydon Jason Perry, the Conservative candidate to become the first executive Mayor of Croydon, has launched a petition which warns against “traffic chaos” … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Boris Johnson, Cycling, Environment, Jason Perry, London-wide issues, Maria Gatland, Michael Neal, Parking, South Croydon, TfL, Transport, Val Shawcross
Tagged 2022 Mayoral election, Boris Johnson, Brighton Road, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Mayor, Croydon Mayoral election 2022, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Jason Perry, Maria Gatland, South Croydon, Tory
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An unaligned elected Mayor could be best result for Croydon
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Loyal reader GEOFF JAMES, from Kenley, offers his take on the importance of the 2022 local elections, including the first vote for an executive Mayor of Croydon 1, Regardless of who wins, Labour and Conservatives will remain the … Continue reading
Mayoral referendum: how Croydon voted, ward-by-ward
The council last night released the figures by ward of how Croydon residents voted in October 7’s Mayoral referendum. We already knew that the thumping 80% majority across the whole borough, and defeats in all 28 wards, was very bad … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, 2022 council elections, Croydon Council, New Addington, New Addington North, Sanderstead, Waddon
Tagged #ABitLessShit, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Labour, New Addington North, Sanderstead, Tory, Waddon
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Labour MP Reed accused of ‘bad politics’ by Blairite peer
Blocked council candidate Jamie Audsley makes opening pitch to be Labour’s candidate for mayor in May 2022. EXCLUSIVE by WALTER CRONXITE, political editor The fall-out from Croydon Labour’s disastrous and costly anti-mayor campaign cranked up a gear yesterday as Lord … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, 2022 council elections, Bensham Manor, Croydon North, Jamie Audsley, Steve Reed MP
Tagged 2022 Mayoral election, Andrew Adonis, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Jamie Audsley, Labour, Lord Adonis, Steve Reed OBE
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Ali’s efforts at spin catch the eye of not-so-noble judges
CROYDON COMMENTARY: In a week when two journalists were announced as winners for the Nobel Peace Prize for their courageous work in fighting for freedom of speech against despots, GEOFF JAMES reports on a less well-publicised award-winning effort Nobel Prizes … Continue reading
After defeat, pressure mounts on ‘lame duck’ council leader
CROYDON IN CRISIS: ‘We mocked the electorate by putting burning £20 notes on our election material’. What now for Croydon Labour, after a nasty and petty waste of around £20,000 in party funds on a referendum campaign they could never … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Andrew Pelling, Croydon North, Hamida Ali, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Croydon, Croydon Council, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Gerry Meredith-Smith, Hamida Ali, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Waddon
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Croydon votes 4-to-1 in favour of having directly elected mayor
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After a disastrously run, high-spending campaign by Labour opposing change, every ward in the borough voted for a new way of running the council. By STEVEN DOWNES Katherine Kerswell took to the low stage at Trinity School … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, 2022 council elections, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Hamida Ali, Katherine Kerswell, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged #ABitLessShit, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Hamida Ali, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayoral referendum, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman
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Use our free voting widget if you have not received poll card
Find election information at WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk Make sure you use Inside Croydon’s essential voting day widget. That, effectively, was the message being issued last night from the propaganda bunker at Fisher’s Folly on the eve of the borough-wide governance referendum by … Continue reading
Nothing adds up as Labour plays numbers game over mayor
REFERENDUM COUNTDOWN: On the eve of polling day, the many shortcomings of a shambolic and expensive campaign waged by Labour to oppose a change to an elected mayor seem about to be exposed. By STEVEN DOWNES The same people who … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Hamida Ali, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Labour, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tory
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Referendum offers us a chance for consensus in Croydon
REFERENDUM COUNTDOWN: Last week, Labour’s Leila Ben-Hassel offered her reasons for opposing a change in the way the council is governed. With the borough-wide referendum being staged tomorrow, resident – and voter – IAN KIERANS questions the councillor’s arguments Councillor … Continue reading
‘If you want something better, then you have to vote for it’
REFERENDUM COUNTDOWN: With just days to go before the borough-wide ballot, PETER UNDERWOOD, pictured right, offers a Green Party perspective on the governance of the council We all know that Croydon Council is useless. On Thursday, we are being offered … Continue reading
Further £38.4m to be sliced from next year’s council budget
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Town Hall leadership hoped to keep the latest round of cuts secret until after next week’s referendum, as the consequences of the borough’s bankruptcy start to hit home. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES £12m of adult social care … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Adult Social Care, Callton Young, Croydon Council, GLL - Better, Hamida Ali, Jason Cummings, Leisure services, Libraries, Purley Pool, Richard Ennis, Section 114 notice, Stuart King, Tony Newman
Tagged Callton Young, Conservative, coronavirus, Council budget, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Hamida Ali, Labour, Purley, Purley Pool, Richard Ennis, Save Purley Pool Campaign, Section 114, Steve Reed OBE, STUART KING, Tory
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Reed tells nation what he won’t tell Croydon: trust the people
REFERENDUM COUNTDOWN: Croydon’s Labour politicians continue to tie themselves in knots by opposing something which just happens to be their own party’s policy. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports on a keynote speech made at the party’s Brighton Conference The inherent … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Louis Carserides, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, Uncategorized
Tagged Croydon North, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Labour, Louis Carserides, Paul Scott, Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman
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MP Reed admits live on air: ‘I’m not anti mayoral system’
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Ten minutes of radio featuring a live spat between two very well-paid politicians over why we do, or don’t, need another politician provided a splendid example of the self-serving futility of the borough’s political duopoly. By WALTER … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged BBC Radio London, Chris Philp MP, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Labour, London, Tony Newman, Vanessa Feltz
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Town Hall leadership hatched plan to break election budget
EXCLUSIVE: Labour councillors who crashed the borough’s finances decided to ignore the Election Commission’s strict rules on spending for their anti-mayor referendum campaign. By STEVEN DOWNES Hamida Ali, the leader of the Labour group at the council, wanted to break … Continue reading
Reed goes video ga-ga as Labour campaign gets desperate
CROYDON COMMENTARY: If the lies don’t get you angry, the cant and hypocrisy surely will. STEVEN DOWNES, Editor of Inside Croydon, on the barrel-scraping going on over next month’s mayoral referendum At a time when Michael Gove is put in … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Hamida Ali, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Hamida Ali, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman
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Labour official seeks to stop DEMOC using campaign leaflets
As Croydon Tories begin the process to select their candidate to stand for the borough’s first directly-elected mayor next May, KEN LEE, our Town Hall correspondent, reports on the local Labour Party’s latest effort to stifle debate While Croydon’s Conservatives … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Jamie Audsley, Stuart King, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Gerry Meredith-Smith, Labour, Lynda Graham, Mayoral referendum, Stella Nabukeera, Tory
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Make sure your pleas to power are never ignored again
CROYDON COMMENTARY: With a little more than a month until the referendum over how we should choose future leaders of the council, MP CHRIS PHILP (pictured left) outlines why he’s supporting a change in the system Croydon Council’s politics are … Continue reading
Lecturer blocked by Labour for ‘anti-council’ library campaign
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Rejected council election candidate makes wide-ranging allegations over fixed selections and racism in the local party. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES There is growing disquiet among grassroots Labour members in Croydon as the process to select candidates for … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, 2022 council elections, Clive Fraser, Croydon North, Jamie Audsley, Jane Avis, Louis Carserides, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Caragh Skipper, Clive Fraser, Croydon North, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Jose Joseph, Labour, Louis Carserides, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE, Tesfa Mehari, Tony Newman
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How DEMOC’s 10 reasons to have a mayor score just 2.5pts
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The political campaigning ahead of October’s referendum over a directly elected mayor for the borough is underway, and at least one Croydon Conservative, BEN GADSBY (pictured right) thinks it is a waste of time and money I have … Continue reading
The fix is in: Labour leaders endorse status quo on 14% turnout
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After overseeing the failure of the borough’s children’s services, setting up the loss-making Brick by Brick, presiding over slum-like conditions in council flats and bankrupting the borough, some of Tony Newman’s closest colleagues are claiming ‘victory’ over … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, 2022 council elections, Alison Butler, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Jamie Audsley, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Sean Fitzsimons, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Hamida Ali, Jamie Audsley, Labour, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman
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Poor turn-out shows disenchantment with local Labour Party
WALTER CRONXITE reports on how a slip of the tongue exposed the charade of Labour councillors’ ‘consultation’. Plus another supporter of Steve Reed is placed in charge of local candidate selections The charade that is Croydon Labour’s “consultation” with its … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, 2022 council elections, Andrew Pelling, Joy Prince, Sean Fitzsimons, Stuart Collins
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Joy Prince, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Sean Fitzsimons, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman
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Labour councillors set to support discredited leader system
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Some of the borough’s politicians have again placed their own self-interests ahead of the public and come up with another dodgy decision, writes WALTER CRONXITE, political editor Not content with having crashed the council’s finances, the Labour … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Alison Butler, Andrew Fisher, Andrew Pelling, Croydon South, Jamie Audsley, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Jamie Audsley, Labour, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Sean Fitzsimons, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory
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