Tag Archives: Mike Fisher

Labour cuts and pastes Tory plans for a very bleak midwinter

Posted on October 21, 2014 by insidecroydon

Tough luck. That’s the message from Croydon Council if we have a bad winter. As commuters battle their way home through what’s left of Hurricane Gonzalo, winter seems to be with us already. Snow and ice cannot be too far … Continue reading →

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Newman takes his group off to Brighton, paid via the rates

Posted on October 19, 2014 by insidecroydon

If you live in one of the Labour-held wards in Croydon, you probably didn’t have an opportunity to meet your publicly funded councillor at a residents’ surgery this weekend. You definitely would not have seen council leader Tony Newman standing … Continue reading →

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Ashcroft’s polling points to election defeat for Barwell

Posted on October 18, 2014 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE has got some new batteries for his Casio calculator and what he’s worked out adds up to bad news for the sitting MP in Croydon’s marginal parliamentary constituency If you are unlucky enough to get cornered by Gavin … Continue reading →

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‘Award-winning’ planning chief says house building is easy

Posted on October 17, 2014 by insidecroydon

Famously, Tom Lehrer said that satire died the day that Henry Kissinger was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. What Lehrer might have made of Croydon being presented with an award for being Britain’s best local planning authority probably … Continue reading →

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Newman goes missing at the making of piece of black history

Posted on October 8, 2014 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE, our man in the Town Hall chamber with a Yorkie bar and half-finished crossword from that day’s Metro sticking out of his jacket pocket, reports on Monday’s council meeting, where all promises of doing civic business in a … Continue reading →

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Calls for auditor to investigate old Ashburton Library sale

Posted on October 7, 2014 by insidecroydon

There are calls for the deal to sell the council-owned old Ashburton Library at a “discount” of more than £400,000 to be referred to the district auditor for investigation, after the aborted sale was the subject of further acrimonious exchanges … Continue reading →

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“Book Token” promoted as Pollard completes Tory takeover

Posted on September 21, 2014 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s Tory councillors yesterday duly anointed Tim Pollard, the “loyal deputy” who did just enough to cause the downfall of Mike Fisher over #WadGate, as their new leader. With no one else from the 30-strong group of Conservative councillors prepared … Continue reading →

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Ottaway milked MPs’ pay system for £250,000 last year

Posted on September 17, 2014 by insidecroydon

Conservative MP Richard Ottaway has hit the parliamentary jackpot again. According to the latest official figures from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, or IPSA, in the financial year to May 2014, Tricky Dicky cost the taxpayer the grand total of: … Continue reading →

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Mead speaks out at cabinet on behalf of his “inner circle”

Posted on September 16, 2014 by insidecroydon

In an extraordinary outburst of arrogance, entitlement and pomposity, Dudley Mead, the deputy leader of the Conservative group on Croydon Council, last night underlined exactly why neither he, nor any other councillor with vested interests outside the Town Hall chamber, … Continue reading →

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Secret meeting to dole out council’s Trumpton-esque honours

Posted on September 15, 2014 by insidecroydon

There’s another example of just how “open and transparent” the business of the council has become since Labour took control of the Town Hall after the local elections. Tonight, before the main business of the cabinet meeting, there is another … Continue reading →

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Council considering using CCTV to monitor traveller groups

Posted on September 12, 2014 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s Labour council wants to use Big Brother to help to stop groups of travellers from dumping piles of rubbish on the borough’s green spaces. Stuart Collins, the cabinet member for slogans and T-shirts, is understood to be considering calling … Continue reading →

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Fisher’s “black hole” of debt could see 500 job cuts at council

Posted on September 11, 2014 by insidecroydon

One hundred days in, and the honeymoon could be over for Croydon’s Labour council, as confronted with a £92.8 million “funding gap” over the next four years, they face having to cut up to 500 jobs at the local authority. … Continue reading →

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#WadGate takes to the airwaves with the Metroknobbers

Posted on September 11, 2014 by insidecroydon

The #WadGate bandwagon rolls on, with the Daily Boris audaciously claiming “to reveal today” the story which Inside Croydon published last Saturday, five whole days ago  – and all based on a Tory party press release, no less. But hey, … Continue reading →

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Exclusive: John Loony wins Tory election (sort of). At last

Posted on September 11, 2014 by insidecroydon

After a political career that started in failure (to misquote Enoch Powell), John Cartwright has at last won a public vote. Cartwright, after spending 20 years contesting every possible election in Croydon as John Loony, the Official Monster Raving Loony … Continue reading →

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Barwell claims Labour knew about #WadGate for months

Posted on September 10, 2014 by insidecroydon

Tony Newman, the Labour leader on Croydon Council, knew all about the back-pay claim of his Tory opposite number Mike Fisher for at least three months, a local MP claimed today. Fisher, for eight years the leader of the council … Continue reading →

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#WadGate: Labour announces inquiry into Tory leader’s cash

Posted on September 9, 2014 by insidecroydon

Tony Newman, the Labour Leader of Croydon Council, this morning pushed himself front and centre of a campaign to hound his predecessor Mike Fisher out of public office, when he took the credit for announcing an “independent” inquiry into how … Continue reading →

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#WadGate: Fisher pocketed £15,250 from fire authority, too

Posted on September 8, 2014 by insidecroydon

Mike Fisher, who has resigned as the leader of the Conservatives on Croydon Council after being caught red-handed secretly claiming an extra £10,000 in allowances on top of his £53,000 wedge, was all the time also receiving an additional £15,250 … Continue reading →

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#WadGate: The questions that Barwell has failed to answer

Posted on September 7, 2014 by insidecroydon

STEVEN DOWNES, editor of Inside Croydon, on how a local MP has been working furiously to save his own political skin So, the Tory narrative on #WadGate has been set. “It’s all Mike Fisher’s fault. He is terribly sorry. And … Continue reading →

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#WadGate: O’Connell and Mohan join Fisher’s Infamous Five

Posted on September 6, 2014 by insidecroydon

Mike Fisher was not alone among Croydon’s senior Conservative councillors in looking at claiming an increase in his allowances. And at the front of the queue for a bigger hand-out at the expense of Council Tax-payers was Steve O’Connell, the … Continue reading →

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#WadGate: Fisher is forced to resign as Croydon’s Tory leader

Posted on September 6, 2014 by insidecroydon

Mike Fisher, for eight years the leader of Croydon Council, was forced to quit as the head of the Tories at the Town Hall on Friday night, less than 72 hours after he was exposed as having secretly claimed an … Continue reading →

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New job for former top cop Osland in Croydon Tories’ coup

Posted on September 5, 2014 by insidecroydon

Some within the Croydon Tories are attempting a coup to sack the local Conservative Federation’s chairman and replace him with the controversial retired senior policeman who was criticised in the inquiry into the brutal death of Stephen Lawrence. According to … Continue reading →

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#WadGate the Movie. Or Mike Fisher: My Part In His Downfall

Posted on September 5, 2014 by insidecroydon

@ArfurZTowcrate clearly has too few followers on Twitter. This piece of (albeit derivative) brilliance deserves a much wider audience. Do read the sub-titles…

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#WadGate latest: Fisher’s deputies put pressure on him to go

Posted on September 4, 2014 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE reports on how the Town Hall allowances scandal does not reflect well on councillors of either of the political parties Say what you like about George Galloway (keep it polite, please), but he does have one phrase which … Continue reading →

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Tory leader Fisher is caught red-handed with £10,000 pay hike

Posted on September 3, 2014 by insidecroydon

Mike Fisher, the leader of the Tories on Croydon Council, has more reason than usual to be red-faced today, after he was caught red-handed having paid himself an extra £10,000 in his final year as leader of the council. Anyone … Continue reading →

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And they’re off! Betting hots up on Croydon’s Tory leadership

Posted on September 2, 2014 by insidecroydon

Sources on Katharine Street have told Inside Croydon that bets are already being laid as to who will be the next leader of the Conservative group on Croydon Council. It seems odds-on that Mike Fisher will stand down as the … Continue reading →

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