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Tag Archives: Jeremy Corbyn
Starmer, Long-Bailey or Nandy: could they win an election?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The ballot emails have gone out (or at least most of them seem to have done), and now Labour Party members have a choice to make. For RORY KELLY, a ‘millennial leftie’, the only trouble is that it … Continue reading
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Corbyn’s ex-aide Fisher: the leadership race is down to two
Until December, ANDREW FISHER (pictured left) was Jeremy Corbyn’s senior policy adviser. A member of Croydon Central Constituency Labour Party, over the weekend Fisher reflected on how he sees the outcome of his local members’ vote in the selection process … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Fisher, Croydon Central, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour
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Labour’s radical manifesto promises to end the housing crisis
Jeremy Corbyn this morning launched Labour’s manifesto for the General Election, in which he confirmed plans for wide-ranging re-nationalisation of public utilities, an £11billion windfall tax on the oil industry to pay for Labour’s environmental policies, and to build 100,000 … Continue reading
Posted in 2019 General Election
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, London
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South Norwood’s Andrew Fisher resigns as Corbyn aide
Andrew Fisher, the influential policy adviser to the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and the author of the Labour’s widely admired 2017 For The Many Not The Few manifesto, is standing down from his position, in the latest shock … Continue reading
MP suspended by Labour Party to give talk at Ruskin House
Chris Williamson, the Derby North MP regarded by some as a controversial figure, and a staunch supporter of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, is the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Croydon Assembly. Williamson will … Continue reading
‘We’re doomed!’ Local Tories shut down discussion on Brexit
KEN LEE reports on how the Conservatives have decided to block their usual mass debates As new splits, divisions and dissent over Brexit rent the Conservative Party asunder at Westminster, here in Croydon, local Tories have shut down all discussion … Continue reading
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Tagged Alasdair Stewart, Brexit, Conservative, Croydon Council, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Mario Creatura, Tim Pollard, Tory
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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
MP Philp joins with Corbyn to object to widow’s eviction
Tomorrow, at around 11.30am, a widow and her five school-aged children seem likely to be rendered homeless, as bailiffs will be knocking on the door of their home in Benson Road to demand that they leave. The eviction is being … Continue reading
Jeremy Corbyn: ‘We are now the political mainstream’
CONFERENCE SKETCH: Something has changed in British politics in the past year, and it was palpable at the Labour Party conference. Party veteran DAVID WHITE reports from Brighton Transformed. I think that would be the word to describe the Labour … Continue reading
Posted in 2017 General Election, 2018 council elections, Croydon Central, David White
Tagged Croydon Central, David White, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour
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Corbyn policy aide Andrew Fisher: ‘We changed politics’
Andrew Fisher, the former union official from Croydon who has been working as Jeremy Corbyn’s policy adviser for the past two years, says that many of the “political myths” of the 1990s have been laid to rest. “Socialist politics have … Continue reading
Posted in 2017 General Election, Andrew Fisher, Croydon Central
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Croydon Central, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour
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Dear Jeremy Corbyn, I have an apology to make. I was wrong
ELECTION COMMENTARY: After two years under near-constant attack not only from the Tories but also from members of his own parliamentary party, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is nearing a true test at the ballot box. And former Tony Blair adviser … Continue reading
Polls show that Labour needs a damage limitation exercise
ELECTION COMMENTARY: Former Labour Party campaign staffer JOHN BRAGGINS, pictured right, says the political situation is like a football match where his party is 4-2 down with four minutes to the final whistle. Anything can happen, but the result is … Continue reading
Posted in 2017 General Election
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Jeremy Corbyn, John Braggins, Labour, Tory
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Little Progress in Croydon, as Newman backs another loser
WALTER CRONXITE says there were plenty of Croydon mentions at the Labour conference, but few signs that those in charge of the local party are about the embrace enthusiasm for the leadership any time soon As Croydon’s Labour politicians and … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Brick by Brick, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, David White, Housing, Jane Avis, Jo Negrini, John Wentworth, Karen Jewitt, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Waddon
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‘I’m not influential’ says influential Labour figure
Andrew Fisher, the Croydon resident who is policy adviser to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has said that his ranking as the ninth most influential figure on the left is “obviously nonsense”. But as Corbyn’s speech to the Labour Party Conference … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Fisher, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour
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Progress MP Reed can’t make Top 100 ‘figures of the left’
A Croydon political thinker and activist who survived an attempt to have him kicked out of the Labour Party is included in the top 10 of a respected political commentator’s “100 Most Influential People On The Left”, published ahead of … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Croydon North, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Steve Reed OBE
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Labour officials continue to flout law over White’s suspension
With just three weeks until the polls close in the latest phase of the never-ending purgatory that is the Labour leadership contest, there continues an anxious wait for some party members and supporters in Croydon over when their voting forms … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon North, David White, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, David White, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour
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Constituent gets visit from police for asking questions of MP
Steve Reed OBE, the Progress MP for Croydon North/Lambeth South [delete to taste] has resorted to filing a formal complaint to the borough police commander about a constituent, after the resident had the audacity to ask questions of their elected … Continue reading
Croydon Labour meeting bans the use of the word ‘Blairite’
It’s official: the word “Blairite” is now considered to be a term of abuse in the Labour Party and its use banned at meetings. “Blairite” was on the list of proscribed words, apparently provided by Labour HQ and which was … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Blairite, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Steve Reed OBE
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Alas Smith and Jones: Labour members get behind Corbyn
WALTER CRONXITE reports on the latest embarrassing set-back for the Croydon clique which yearns for a return to the “good old days” of Tony Bliar The ordinary members of a Croydon Constituency Labour Party, when given a chance last night … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Rendle, Carole Bonner, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Maddie Henson, Mark Watson, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Sean Fitzsimons, Simon Hall, Stephen Mann, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Toni Letts, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Sarah Jones MP, Sean Fitzsimons, Simon Hall, Tony Newman
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MP Reed’s local party in climbdown over nomination meeting
Officials in Croydon North Constituency Labour Party have been forced to make a humiliating climbdown over their attempts to stage a leadership nomination meeting which sought to exclude the vast majority of the area’s members. Ann O’Connor, who was recently … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Blairite, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Owen Smith, Progress, Steve Reed OBE
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Labour members get chance to ask Reed about Corbyn coup
Labour members in Croydon North, who Steve Reed OBE, the constituency MP, refused to answer with a frank explanation of his position over the party’s leadership, have the chance to get up close and personal with Progress vice-chair this Saturday … Continue reading
