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Has Labour already lined up its candidate for elected mayor?
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The governance referendum is not until Thursday, but despite officially opposing the proposal to move to a directly elected mayor, some senior Labour figures may have already moved to find a candidate to stand for the office … Continue reading
Members accuse officials: ‘unsound, unjust and unacceptable’
CROYDON IN CRISIS: A local branch of the Labour Party has raised ‘serious concerns’ and suspicions of ‘undue political motives’ after their ‘excellent’ ward councillor Jamie Audsley had his application to stand as a Town Hall election candidate rejected. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Further £38.4m to be sliced from next year’s council budget
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Town Hall leadership hoped to keep the latest round of cuts secret until after next week’s referendum, as the consequences of the borough’s bankruptcy start to hit home. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES £12m of adult social care … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Adult Social Care, Callton Young, Croydon Council, GLL - Better, Hamida Ali, Jason Cummings, Leisure services, Libraries, Purley Pool, Richard Ennis, Section 114 notice, Stuart King, Tony Newman
Tagged Callton Young, Conservative, coronavirus, Council budget, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Hamida Ali, Labour, Purley, Purley Pool, Richard Ennis, Save Purley Pool Campaign, Section 114, Steve Reed OBE, STUART KING, Tory
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#BINMAGEDDON: Council admits Veolia’s failing on the job
The situation has become so dire that residents are being asked not to report when their street’s collections have been missed. By STEVEN DOWNES A senior council executive this afternoon rushed out a “wholehearted apology” to residents over the increasingly … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Sarah Hayward, Veolia
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Veolia
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#BINMAGEDDON! Boroughs left looking like rubbish tips
‘They treat us like the rubbish they are supposed to collect!’ Mounting reports from around the boroughs in the South London Waste Partnership suggest that the councils’ waste service contractors are creaking under pressure. By STEVEN DOWNES The complaints about … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Fly tipping, Merton, Refuse collection, Shirley North, Steve Iles, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged #SuttonBinShame, Addiscombe, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Merton, Purley, Shirley, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Sutton Council, Veolia
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Reed tells nation what he won’t tell Croydon: trust the people
REFERENDUM COUNTDOWN: Croydon’s Labour politicians continue to tie themselves in knots by opposing something which just happens to be their own party’s policy. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports on a keynote speech made at the party’s Brighton Conference The inherent … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Louis Carserides, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, Uncategorized
Tagged Croydon North, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Labour, Louis Carserides, Paul Scott, Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman
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‘Corrupt’ selection process rejects second Labour councillor
CROYDON IN CRISIS: An elected councillor has described his party’s local election selection process as ‘flawed and corrupt’, as it emerges that Mary Croos has joined Jamie Audsley in being rejected as a candidate for 2022. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, Fairfield, Mary Croos, Uncategorized
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Jamie Audsley, Labour, Mary Croos
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Labour councillor was given ‘no real reason’ for deselection
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The damaging ‘Groupthink’ culture under the toxic leadership of Tony Newman remains firmly in place at the Town Hall, where an elected official has told colleagues he was blocked from standing despite never breaking any rules. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Tories welcome back far-right figures as 2022 candidates
Our Political Editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on the names in the frame to become new Tory councillors next May Jason Perry, the leader of the Conservative opposition at Croydon Council, has handed the local politics equivalent of Willy Wonka’s Golden Ticket … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Badsha Quadir, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Fieldway, Helen Redfern, Jason Perry, Lynne Hale, New Addington, New Addington North, Norbury Park, Purley, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, Shirley North, Tony Pearson, Waddon
Tagged Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jason Perry, Labour, Mark Johnson, Michael Castle, New Addington, Purley, Tony Pearson, Tory, Waddon
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Regina Road residents angry as Knight ducks another meeting
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The blundering £800 per day bureaucrat in charge of fixing the council’s ‘appalling’ housing has cancelled a scheduled meeting with residents. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES and MICHAEL NELSON Residents of the tower blocks on Regina Road are … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Knight, Community associations, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Alison Knight, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
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‘Beyond farce’ as Labour purges veteran Croydon official
STEVEN DOWNES reports on the latest, and predictable, move by the Labour leadership in what is being called ‘a witch hunt’ against the left David White, one of the longest-serving Labour officials in Croydon, has been “administratively suspended” by the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, David Evans, David White
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, David Evans, David White, John McDonnell MP, Labour, Sir Keir Starmer
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MP Reed admits live on air: ‘I’m not anti mayoral system’
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Ten minutes of radio featuring a live spat between two very well-paid politicians over why we do, or don’t, need another politician provided a splendid example of the self-serving futility of the borough’s political duopoly. By WALTER … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged BBC Radio London, Chris Philp MP, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Labour, London, Tony Newman, Vanessa Feltz
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Town Hall leadership hatched plan to break election budget
EXCLUSIVE: Labour councillors who crashed the borough’s finances decided to ignore the Election Commission’s strict rules on spending for their anti-mayor referendum campaign. By STEVEN DOWNES Hamida Ali, the leader of the Labour group at the council, wanted to break … Continue reading
Reed group fined for slow declaration of £800,000 donations
Pro-Starmer ‘party within a party’ which has Croydon North MP on its board and links to ‘campaign guru’ David Evans somehow overlooked huge payments from a businessman and a Mayfair hedge fund manager An influential Labour Party group which has … Continue reading
Community station has questions over council’s radio silence
Town Hall leaders were keen enough to promote themselves with selfies in the studios, but now a manager at the town’s community station claims they have been ‘black-listed’ by the council. By STEVEN DOWNES One week has passed since Croydon … Continue reading
Two housing officials quit as council is condemned again
The departure of two senior officials working in the council’s housing department, including the head of repairs, is not linked to the latest shocking coverage of the appalling conditions in flats in a Croydon-owned block in Regina Road, according to … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Knight, Croydon Council, Housing, South Norwood
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Regina Road, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE
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‘The damage to the Fairfield Halls reputation is severe’
CROYDON IN CRISIS: While the cash-strapped council remains preoccupied with its finances, the once prestigious arts centre on the other side of Park Lane risks sliding towards cultural oblivion. By our arts correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK There are growing concerns that … Continue reading
Posted in Arnhem Gallery, Art, Ashcroft Theatre, BH Live, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, GLL - Better, Mayor of London, Neil Chandler, Oliver Lewis, Paula Murray, Sadiq Khan, The Wreck, Theatre, Tony Newman
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, BHLive, Borough of Culture, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Oliver Lewis, Paula Murray, Sadiq Khan, The Wreck, Tony Newman
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Council paid £25,000 for legal threats against Inside Croydon
The council admits it used public resources to hire the Queen’s solicitors to make threats of libel action on behalf of Tony Newman and Jo Negrini. STEVEN DOWNES, Editor of Inside Croydon, writes that in doing so, the council’s senior … Continue reading
Government to pay £2.3m of borough’s asylum children’s costs
The Home Office will pay an additional £2.3million to Croydon this year to cover the rising costs to the borough of being a first stop in this country for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. The cash-strapped borough last month threatened to copy … Continue reading
Labour official seeks to stop DEMOC using campaign leaflets
As Croydon Tories begin the process to select their candidate to stand for the borough’s first directly-elected mayor next May, KEN LEE, our Town Hall correspondent, reports on the local Labour Party’s latest effort to stifle debate While Croydon’s Conservatives … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Jamie Audsley, Stuart King, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Gerry Meredith-Smith, Labour, Lynda Graham, Mayoral referendum, Stella Nabukeera, Tory
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Starmer and Evans face impossible task with Croydon South
To win the next General Election, Labour needs to gain 124 seats. And Number 122 on the list of Labour target seats is Tory Chris Philp’s Croydon South constituency. Our sarf of the borough correspondent, PEARL LEE, looks at the … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 London elections, 2021 Mayor Referendum, 2022 council elections, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, David Evans, Hamida Ali, Jennifer Brathwaite, London-wide issues, Olga Fitzroy, Sarah Jones MP, Stuart King, Tony Newman
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, David Evans, Keir Starmer, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Sarah Jones MP, South Croydon, Tony Newman, Tory
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Make sure your pleas to power are never ignored again
CROYDON COMMENTARY: With a little more than a month until the referendum over how we should choose future leaders of the council, MP CHRIS PHILP (pictured left) outlines why he’s supporting a change in the system Croydon Council’s politics are … Continue reading
