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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
Posted in Alison Butler, Andrew Fisher, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Housing
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
Labour members investigate how to oust Blairite MP Reed
More details have emerged from the Croydon North Labour annual meeting a fortnight ago which demonstrate that the power struggle in the party nationally between Blairites and supporters of Jeremy Corbyn is also being played out fiercely at local level. … Continue reading
MP Reed never consulted us on Corbyn, say Labour members
Steve Reed OBE, the Progress MP for Lambeth South/Croydon North [delete to taste] waited until this morning before joining the exodus of right wingers from the Labour Party’s shadow cabinet, issuing a letter announcing that he is resigning from his … Continue reading
Posted in Catriona Ogilvy, Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon North, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Steve Reed OBE
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Corbyn has ‘full confidence’ in aide, as Labour suspend Fisher
The Progress pogrom against Jeremy Corbyn claimed its first victim tonight, when Andrew Fisher, the Labour leader’s policy adviser, had his party membership suspended. Fisher, however, seems set to continue to work in Corbyn’s office and he confirmed to Inside … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Croydon South, Emily Benn
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Steve Reed OBE, The Hon Emily Benn
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Red Labour tells Emily Benn to drop Fisher expulsion call
A Labour members’ and campaigners’ grouping yesterday issued a statement where they said that they fear that Emily Benn, a West Thornton ward councillor, is “…being used by other, more sinister forces within the Parliamentary Party who are out to … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Emily Benn, West Thornton
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Croydon North, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, The Hon Emily Benn, West Thornton
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Shadow chancellor McDonnell to speak at Croydon Assembly
John McDonnell and Andrew Fisher, two key players within Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership team, are among the invited speakers at the third Croydon Assembly, to be staged at Ruskin House on November 7. Entitled “Fighting the Tories – a Manifesto … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Business, Housing, Planning, Property
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, trade unions
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MP Reed clings to shadow job under ‘unelectable’ Corbyn
Never let it be said that Steve Reed OBE isn’t a… hmm… let’s call him a pragmatic politician. Although many others might regard him as a political chameleon or, worse, a hypocrite. Just a few weeks after declaring that Jeremy … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Chuka Umunna, Conservative, Croydon North, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Member of parliament, Progress, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham, Tory
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POLL: Should comedian Mark Steel be allowed a Labour vote?
It is rare indeed that Croydon makes it on to the front page of a national newspaper. But The Independent has today splashed a picture story of how its columnist, Mark Steel, has been rejected by the Labour Party from … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, Comedy, Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Conservative, Croydon North, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Lambeth South, London, Steve Reed OBE, Tory
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Red faces for Reed and supporters as CLP picks Corbyn
WALTER CRONXITE reports from the back row of a Thornton Heath church hall at a local Labour Party meeting, where the Blairites are becoming increasingly shrill in their discomfort Steve Reed OBE, the Progress MP for Lambeth South, is looking … Continue reading
Corbyn comes to Croydon for free public meeting, Aug 4
Jeremy Corbyn, the outsider who now appears to be running away with the Labour Party leadership contest, is to speak at a public meeting in Croydon on August 4. The meeting, from 7pm at Ruskin House on Coombe Road, has … Continue reading
MP Reed’s endorsement of ‘lunatic’ column causes anger
Steve Reed OBE, MP for Lambeth South (the parliamentary seat formerly known as Croydon North) has caused outrage among Labour supporters in the borough after his overly enthusiastic support of Liz Kendall in his party’s leadership contest has seen him … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon North, Steve Reed MP, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon North, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Steve Reed OBE, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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United we stand: looking for a more representative Croydon
CROYDON COMMENTARY: There’s gathering interest in more radical solutions to the deep economic and social problems, locally and nationally, judging by one well-attended meeting last week, writes ANDREW PELLING Something rather extraordinary is happening to left of centre politics in … Continue reading
