Tag Archives: Jeremy Corbyn

Starmer, Long-Bailey or Nandy: could they win an election?

Posted on March 10, 2020 by

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

Posted on February 11, 2020 by

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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Stormzy’s Glastonbury slogans become rallying call for Labour

Posted on November 25, 2019 by

Stormzy has thrown his support behind Labour and called on people to register to vote to “end austerity, rebuild our communities and take back the means to change our lives for the better”. Stormzy, recently voted the coolest bloke in … Continue reading →

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Labour’s radical manifesto promises to end the housing crisis

Posted on November 21, 2019 by

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 →

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South Norwood’s Andrew Fisher resigns as Corbyn aide

Posted on September 22, 2019 by

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 →

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MP suspended by Labour Party to give talk at Ruskin House

Posted on April 30, 2019 by

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 →

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‘We’re doomed!’ Local Tories shut down discussion on Brexit

Posted on April 3, 2019 by

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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MP calls on Corbyn to ‘come out fighting’ over Wadsworth

Posted on October 3, 2018 by

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 →

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MP Philp joins with Corbyn to object to widow’s eviction

Posted on January 24, 2018 by

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 →

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Jeremy Corbyn: ‘We are now the political mainstream’

Posted on September 27, 2017 by

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 →

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