Tag Archives: Gavin Barwell
Croydon peer Barwell calls for ex-PM Truss to lose party whip
Get the pop corn, there’s another row in the Tories over ‘PopCon’, as right-whingers reveal themselves once more as ‘the Nasty Party’. By our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE Gavin Barwell, the former Croydon MP and now a semi-detached member of … Continue reading →
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Creatura left out of sorts after Epsom Tories pick Fraser
The Coulsdon Town councillor is fast running out of parliamentary options, reports WALTER CRONXITE, political editor It looks like the Conservative councillor elected to the Town Hall three times by the residents of Coulsdon has again been reckoned to be … Continue reading →
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Coulsdon councillor Creatura distracted by charms of Epsom
WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on the latest flailing efforts of one of Croydon’s third-rate councillors to grab bigger and better things (for himself, of course) The Last Chance Saloon has a new bar room bore, as Coulsdon councillor Mario Creatura … Continue reading →
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Hammer blow for Whitgift Centre with new delay to masterplan
CROYDON IN CRISIS: No more ‘Death Star’-type, £1.4bn Westfield shopping mall say developers, who want to build ‘thousands’ of flats, as Paris-based firm looks for a more sustainable approach In a hammer blow to any hope of urgently rescuing the … Continue reading →
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Unpopular Croydon politician resigns from his council non-job
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE has been documenting wannabe MP Mario Creatura’s career for more than a decade, and now may be writing one of its final chapters Mario Creatura’s inexorable drift into political obscurity looked to take one of its … Continue reading →
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Croydon’s Tories opt to set up ‘Mr 15%’ Cummings for a fall
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE looks at the election chances of Croydon East’s version of ‘Captain Oates’: noble but utterly futile The party conference over for another year, one of the newest Constituency Labour Parties, Croydon East, will formally begin its … Continue reading →
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Cummings in bid to defy the ‘Curse of Barwell’ for selection
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the shortest of short lists for Croydon Conservative members to pick from for a parliamentary candidate Gavin Barwell’s former staffers, thrusting, keen and eager Tory politicians, must be beginning to think that there is some … Continue reading →
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Top 10 of the week’s crankery, fantasies, fallacies and Tory lies
ANDREW FISHER has chronicled the most bizarre and reckless claims and misjudged announcements from this week’s Conservative Party conference The cavalcade of crankery known as the Conservative Party annual conference is over for another year. But just in case you … Continue reading →
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Old Palace closure brought on by shaky Foundation finances
CROYDON IN CRISIS: There’s not much that has happened in Croydon in the last dozen years or so that cannot be traced back, in some respect, to the £1billion-plus non-development of the Whitgift Centre. And as the accounts of landowners … Continue reading →
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Go Nads! Barwell enters row over right-wing MP’s resignation
Absentee peer has a pop at nine-carat ex-MP Nadine Dorries in a Twitter spat likely to spark further rows as the Conservatives look to select their parliamentary candidate for new Croydon East constituency, reports our political editor WALTER CRONXITE Gavin … Continue reading →
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Good Lord? Starmer’s gofer Evans is lined up for a peerage
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, delves through some silly season speculation to discover that one of Alison Butler’s exes could soon be heading for the red benches David Evans, the former Croydon business owner who was an aide to Tony … Continue reading →
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Creatura bet his house on Banstead and didn’t make shortlist
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on the knock-back to a Tory councillor that could prove to be terminal to his huge political ambition Mario Creatura, the former parliamentary gobby factotum to Gavin Barwell, has been thwarted again in his desperate … Continue reading →
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Beckenham’s Tory MP failed to register his arms trade link
South London Conservative MP Bob Stewart found to hold directorship of Luxembourg-registered consultancy with links to convicted criminal while he was a member of influential Commons Defence Committee Col Bob Stewart, the MP for Beckenham since 2010 and already under … Continue reading →
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Centrale’s owners set to sell-up to Westfield in cut-price deal
Our vacated shopping centre correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on the latest multi-million-pound boardroom manoeuvres over Croydon’s developer-blighted North End It has taken more than a decade, but Westfield’s hostile takeover of the Centrale shopping mall in Croydon town centre looks as … Continue reading →
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Baron Barwell does a bunk from Lords after Standards breach
More Tory sleaze, after a complaint from an iC reader leads to a finding that the politician broke the rules over his business declarations… and his Lordship isn’t saying whether his ‘leave of absence’ is in connection with something far … Continue reading →
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‘Severe maladministration’ at Barwell’s housing association
The Housing Ombudsman has found severe maladministration in two separate cases which formed part of a wider investigation into the Clarion Housing Association. One of the cases is understood to involve social housing in Merton, where a leaking roof, damp … Continue reading →
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Tory councillor group at Town Hall goes into 2023 with a WINO
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on the rumblings of disquiet and discontent over a Coulsdon councillor who has put his own parliamentary ambitions ahead of council duties Mayor Jason Perry’s merry band of Tory councillors is not an altogether happy … Continue reading →
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Barwell tells the Tory Party: It’s time to make up your mind
Britain stands on the brink of a national breakdown, after Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister this lunchtime, following a turbulent 44 days in office during which her Mini-Budget crashed the markets, she sacked both her Chancellor and Home Secretary … Continue reading →
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‘The Nose in Search of a Bum’ sniffs out new government job
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on the losers and losers in today’s government reshuffle Calls to Downing Street sources this afternoon have failed to discover anyone prepared to offer an on-the-record denial that, when he got the call from the … Continue reading →
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Croydon’s top Tory Barwell admits: I am politically homeless
WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on the Conservative peer’s criticism of the Truss government’s reckless ‘Mini-Budget’ Baron Barwell of Croydon in the London Borough of Croydon has had enough of the Conservative government. The patience of the man who was Tory … Continue reading →
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‘If things go badly, a Bring Back Boris campaign will start’
Far-right comedian Joe Lycett was not available to give us his take on the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss. So instead, we turned to the doom-laden Twitter feed of Conservative peer GAVIN BARWELL “Lord” Gavin Barwell was Chief of Staff … Continue reading →
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M&S recruiting 130 staff ahead of opening Purley Way store
EXCLUSIVE: The company CEO’s life-long association with the Croydon store may have helped to give the beleaguered Whitgift Centre a reprieve. By STEVEN DOWNES Marks and Spencer is recruiting more than 130 staff in advance of its opening a new … Continue reading →
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Rish! Sunak brings the Tory leadership contest to Purley
Our mole in the Croydon Conservatives was quite impressed by the flying visit of the former Chancellor. And with his shoes Liz is down in Surrey but we’re told she’ll come to visit us, too. But with a good two … Continue reading →
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Tories’ Not-So-Famous Five offer little real hope for nation
ANDREW FISHER on the search for a new Prime Minister, and what it could all mean for Croydon The ancient Roman poet Juvenal observed that people needed “bread and circuses”. In Britain today, more people than ever are queuing for … Continue reading →
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Finally, Coulsdon’s Tory councillor Creatura cuts before he runs
Boris Johnson fanboy and former Downing Street aide to Theresa May is trying to clean up his act ahead of parliamentary selections Tory councillor Mario Creatura, for many years the “gobby factotum” to Gavin Barwell when he was a Conservative … Continue reading →
