Tag Archives: Mario Creatura

Council gets more secretive over its councillors’ declarations

Posted on July 16, 2018 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on a strange reversal of previous open and transparent Town Hall policy, which is deliberately keeping cabinet members’ interests under cover The Labour group which is running Croydon Council is becoming more secretive by the … Continue reading →

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Croydon’s Labour council in crackdown against street beggars

Posted on June 9, 2018 by

Compare and contrast. While local authorities, and not just Blairite-run Croydon, wring their hands piously over the “housing crisis” as they sell off more council homes than they build, on the streets of London every night, the homelessness crisis gets … Continue reading →

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Ex-MP Barwell abandons Croydon, as his bag-carrier steps up

Posted on May 12, 2018 by

Local Tories appear to have given up hope of regaining the parliamentary seat lost at last year’s General Election, as KEN LEE reports Gavin Barwell, the Tory who when he was MP for Croydon Central said, “Representing my home town … Continue reading →

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Pollard: Losing on planning legal appeals is ‘money well spent’

Posted on April 17, 2018 by

ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Our eager Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, spent the evening at a debate in Old Coulsdon, so that you didn’t have to Not content with overseeing the publication of an uncosted local election manifesto that contains at least … Continue reading →

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Now Guido Fawkes is catching up with Barwell’s cronies

Posted on April 15, 2018 by

Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on how Westminster political blog Guido Fawkes is following up on Croydon news – six months after it was first published on Inside Croydon On the morning after his boss had taken the nation to … Continue reading →

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Speakman quits Tory party and launches attack on ageism

Posted on April 6, 2018 by

EXCLUSIVE: WALTER CRONXITE on the latest recriminations over party selections for the local elections next month Donald Speakman, a Tory councillor in Purley for the past 16 years, has resigned from the Conservative Party and has started a campaign to … Continue reading →

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Philp left to ponder as PM’s reshuffle passes him by

Posted on January 10, 2018 by

The government’s failed reshuffle was an even bigger failure for one Croydon politician, as WALTER CRONXITE reports Chris Philp, the forever-thrusting Tory MP for Croydon South, might well be asking himself what he’s done wrong, after he was left out … Continue reading →

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