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Tag Archives: Rotten Boroughs
Hat-trick heroes: Perry and Philp set an Eye ‘awards’ record
It’s the annual awards that no local council ever wants to feature in. But this year, thanks to Tory double act Jason Perry and Chris Philp, Croydon Council has picked up no fewer than three “gongs” in Private Eye’s much-anticipated … Continue reading
Croydon is made a national laughing stock, Part 94. And Part 95
No sooner had the nation’s best-selling satirical magazine had a good laugh (again) at Croydon’s expense after featuring the latest example of the council’s bungled handling of vast amounts of public money, than the borough has popped up again in … Continue reading
‘Spectacularly useless’ Croydon is ridiculed on Question Time
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
Mayor maintains Croydon’s record in Rotten Boroughs awards
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
Eye! Eye! Croydon gets two gongs in Rotten Boroughs awards
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
Council’s latest lame excuse: our phones don’t work properly
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
Council scoops top award among most rotten boroughs
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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Tagged Brick by Brick, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Private Eye, Rotten Boroughs, Tony Newman
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It’s official(ish)! Croydon’s a rotten borough – Murdoch says so
‘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
It’s a hat-trick! Housing wins unwanted new plaudit for council
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
It’s official: Croydon has claim as Britain’s rottenest borough
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
Posted in Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Private Eye, Rotten Boroughs, Tony Newman
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