Tag Archives: Rotten Boroughs

‘Spectacularly useless’ Croydon is ridiculed on Question Time

Posted on February 20, 2023 by insidecroydon

The parlous state of Croydon Council’s finances, and the chronic incompetence of the people in charge of them, made it on to national television last week. Thursday night’s Question Time on BBC1 broke away from its obsessions with Brexit and … Continue reading →

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Mayor maintains Croydon’s record in Rotten Boroughs awards

Posted on January 6, 2023 by insidecroydon

Staff at Fisher’s Folly had something to celebrate this week, after Croydon Council managed to make it into the annual Private Eye magazine round-up of the country’s rottenest boroughs for a sixth year in a row. Someone has even suggested … Continue reading →

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Eye! Eye! Croydon gets two gongs in Rotten Boroughs awards

Posted on January 6, 2022 by insidecroydon

The annual round-up of greed, venality and incompetence among the country’s local authorities has seen our council out-perform many others, yet again. But did satirical fortnightly magazine Private Eye miss a trick over one former ‘award-winner’? Perhaps the governance and … Continue reading →

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Council’s latest lame excuse: our phones don’t work properly

Posted on December 5, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Britain’s rottenest borough is now blaming faulty phone lines for needlessly prosecuting residents over Council Tax, when the householders can’t get through to Fisher’s Folly to make their payments. By STEVEN DOWNES Last month, on the first … Continue reading →

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Council scoops top award among most rotten boroughs

Posted on January 6, 2021 by insidecroydon

Croydon Council has been handed the ultimate accolade: the most rotten of boroughs in the 2020 Rotten Borough Awards, revealed today in the latest edition of Private Eye magazine. The awards are always hotly contested, with the greed, venality and … Continue reading →

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It’s official(ish)! Croydon’s a rotten borough – Murdoch says so

Posted on November 14, 2020 by insidecroydon

‘Croydon has not so much overspent as bet on losers,’ according to The Times today. KEN LEE reports on how, belatedly, the collapse of our council has finally become national news The Thunderer has spoken. The parlous state of Croydon’s … Continue reading →

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It’s a hat-trick! Housing wins unwanted new plaudit for council

Posted on January 8, 2020 by insidecroydon

BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, reports on how Croydon’s bungling over its Brick by Brick privatised development company has managed to see our local authority feature among the rottenest boroughs of the year – for the third year running It’s … Continue reading →

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It’s official: Croydon has claim as Britain’s rottenest borough

Posted on January 9, 2019 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE on another set of awards, but ones which you won’t be reading about on the council’s website Private Eye, the country’s best-selling satirical magazine, today publishes its eagerly awaited annual Rotten Borough Awards for 2018. Well-paid council executives … Continue reading →

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