Tag Archives: Jack Buck

Labour staffer caught trying to cheat online election poll

Posted on April 18, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON LABOUR IN CRISIS: Professional organiser resorts to devious methods to try to make Shawcross campaign look stronger. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES A paid Labour Party official – and a member of the campaign team for Val Shawcross, the party’s … Continue reading →

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The Buck stops here: Labour campaign disarray after fixer quits

Posted on January 7, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON LABOUR IN CRISIS: The party’s local organiser has quit his job just months before council elections after a row over how much backing to give to Val Shawcross’s Mayoral campaign. And there’s only a short-term plan for a replacement. … Continue reading →

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Butler and Scott among those not facing the voters again

Posted on October 7, 2021 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on the high drop-out rate among Croydon’s Labour councillors, bruised and deflated after nearly eight years in charge at the Town Hall Paul Scott and Alison Butler, the husband and wife duo who made up … Continue reading →

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Candidates’ tough task to shake off Labour reputation

Posted on April 2, 2021 by insidecroydon

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on how candidates standing in ward by-elections next month have to shake off the stigma of replacing discredited Tony Newman and Simon Hall Kola Agboola and Mike Bonello have been named by Labour as their … Continue reading →

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Buck’s off: Newman’s paid aide flies to Norway for the winter

Posted on November 6, 2020 by insidecroydon

Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on the lengthy absence from work of the Labour Party staffer who fixed a candidate selection in favour of one of his mates Mystery surrounds the continuing employment status of Jack Buck, the Labour … Continue reading →

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Fix! Internal Labour inquiry confirms selection stitch-up

Posted on October 26, 2020 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: After the local Labour Party tried to cover-up the scandal of their botched handling of the Fairfield ward by-election last year, the resulting inquiry criticises the ‘questionable integrity and competence of paid party officers’. By STEVEN DOWNES An internal … Continue reading →

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Newman tells Labour to prepare for Mayor vote next May

Posted on May 28, 2020 by insidecroydon

KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on how voters in Croydon seem likely to have another ballot paper when they go to the polls in 2021 Tony Newman, the council leader, made it clear to a meeting of Labour Party … Continue reading →

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Newman stifles report which alleges conspiracy over selection

Posted on January 25, 2020 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on a leaked report over the rumbling row in Croydon Labour over a selection stitch-up that saw Tony Newman’s favoured candidate put forward for last November’s Fairfield council by-election A internal party report, leaked to … Continue reading →

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Labour win Fairfield by-election despite 10% vote drop

Posted on November 8, 2019 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE crunches the numbers after a council by-election where the biggest losers were the residents of Croydon Jack Buck, the Labour Party paid employee who fixed the Fairfield ward selection so that his friend, Caragh Skipper, could be nominated … Continue reading →

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Labour election worries: ‘We’re heading for an unholy Buck up’

Posted on November 1, 2019 by insidecroydon

Jack Buck, the Labour Party employee who last month was at the centre of a candidate selection fix for the Fairfield by-election, has ordered party members in the borough to ignore that scandal and to turn out for canvassing sessions. … Continue reading →

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Labour meeting to consider move to boycott Fairfield campaign

Posted on October 19, 2019 by insidecroydon

The pressure on Tony Newman as leader of the Labour group on Croydon Council continues to mount, as one of Croydon’s three constituency Labour parties will this week consider a motion that “deplores the behaviour of the council leadership” over … Continue reading →

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Tawdry affair of Fairfield candidate coup and the double agent

Posted on October 17, 2019 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: The scandal surrounding Labour’s candidate selection for the Fairfield by-election looks set to worsen after a lengthy mea culpa was issued by the Local Campaign Forum, as WALTER CRONXITE reports The two most senior officials in Croydon Labour’s LCF … Continue reading →

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Newman accused of ‘evil stitch-up’ over Fairfield candidate

Posted on October 12, 2019 by insidecroydon

STEVEN DOWNES reports on allegations of bullying and racism within the Croydon Labour Party after the local leadership fails to nominate a democratically selected candidate for a ward by-election The Labour Party in Croydon is in turmoil today, after council … Continue reading →

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After campaign criticism, Labour’s organiser passes the Buck

Posted on May 26, 2019 by insidecroydon

Thursday’s Euro election results are expected tonight, but in Croydon Labour the party in-fighting has already begun, as WALTER CRONXITE reports Recriminations and faction fighting has broken into public among the Croydon Labour Party even before the votes have been … Continue reading →

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Buck makes sure MPs and councillors toe Brexit party line

Posted on December 24, 2018 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on the earnest efforts being made by the local Labour party’s staffer to get everyone on message over Brexit Jack Buck, hired by Croydon Labour as their borough organiser, has been speaking out against bourgeois types … Continue reading →

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Buck-ing the trend: Croydon Labour staffer challenges Mayor

Posted on December 14, 2018 by insidecroydon

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on wranglings within Labour in south London over the social cleansing of working class areas An employee of the Labour Party in Croydon has condemned Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan for having a gentrification agenda … Continue reading →

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Mayhem in Downing Street. And some of it is Barwell’s fault

Posted on December 12, 2018 by insidecroydon

WALTER  CRONXITE, political editor, on the latest piece of Conservative Party in-fighting to throw the nation into crisis It is entirely possible that, tomorrow morning, Gavin Barwell, Jason Cummings and Mario Creatura will all be in a queue in Fisher’s … Continue reading →

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Enough to make you physically sick: Labour official Chukas up

Posted on October 22, 2018 by insidecroydon

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on how the stresses and strains of Brexit are showing themselves in the local Labour Party A Labour Party official who works in Croydon MP Sarah Jones’s office yesterday courted controversy and internal party division … Continue reading →

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MP Williamson’s Democracy Roadshow set to roll into Croydon

Posted on September 5, 2018 by insidecroydon

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on how the battle for the heart and soul of the Labour Party is coming to the borough next week One of Jeremy Corbyn’s most loyal supporters in the Parliamentary Labour Party, Chris Williamson MP, … Continue reading →

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