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Tag Archives: Tom Brake MP
Gotcha! MP Brake caught on Twitter ‘joining’ the LibDems
BELLE MONT, our Sutton correspondent, on an embarrassing gaffe from the local MP Tory councillors in Sutton were today gleefully claiming that Tom Brake, the Liberal Democrat MP for Carshalton and Wallington, had “outed himself” as the user of bogus, … Continue reading
‘Bogus Ben’ and freesheet’s lead story prompt complaints
Sutton reporter BELLE MONT on how a LibDem election candidate has been caught out trying to take credit for a community campaign Sutton’s polluting, thieving and cage-fighting LibDem councillors and ex-councillors, despite having been caught out trying to use tax-payers’ … Continue reading
Theatre Trust slams Sutton Council over stage closures
BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, on the latest independent body to find fault with the south London council Sutton’s polluting, thieving and cage-fighting Liberal Democrat councillors and ex-councillors have now attracted the anger of the usually mild-mannered Theatres Trust. In … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Carshalton, Charles Cryer Theatre, Ruth Dombey, Secombe Theatre, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP
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Cage-fighting councillor pays up for LibDem fighting fund
Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, has gone digging into the 10,500 probable reasons behind the prolonged absence from council meetings of LibDem cage-fighter Callum Morton With local elections less than five months away, the Liberal Democrats, who have enjoyed the … Continue reading
Posted in Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP
Tagged Callum Morton, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP
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LibDem councillor goes AWOL and becomes a cage fighter
There’s concern for the well-being, and whereabouts, of Sutton LibDem councillor Callum Morton. Morton has been AWOL for months. He hasn’t been seen at a meeting of Sutton’s full council since September. But he has meanwhile managed to find the … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP
Tagged Callum Morton, Liberal Democrats, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP
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Incinerator company director to get a grilling at City Hall
A senior official from Viridor, the operators of the Beddington Lane incinerator which is about to start spewing goodness knows what into the atmosphere above Croydon, will be facing questions from London Assembly Members this afternoon. And while senior Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Environment, Refuse collection, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Stuart Collins, Tom Brake MP, Viridor
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Viridor about to use chimneys that Santa won’t want to visit
The industrial-scale waste incinerator at Beddington Lane is set to be fired up for the first time in the next couple of weeks, Inside Croydon has learned. “It’s the sort of Christmas present no one in south London would want,” … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, London-wide issues, Peter Underwood, Refuse collection, Sadiq Khan, Shasha Khan, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Lane, Beddington Lane incinerator, Liberal Democrats, Peter Underwood, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Viridor
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NHS Trust votes for St Helier closure, despite public opposition
The Tory Government is pushing ahead with plans to close the Sutton hospital where former Prime Minister Sir John Major was born NHS chiefs in south-west London want to close all acute, emergency and maternity facilities at two large hospitals, … Continue reading
Noxious Brake and the burning questions over red diesel
BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, on the latest bit of cant and crass hypocrisy from that borough’s most senior FibDem Having achieved the dubious accolade of being the answer to a Pointless question, MP Tom Brake seems determined to demonstrate … Continue reading
Fraudster former LibDem councillor puts his home up for sale
A former senior Liberal Democrat councillor in Sutton, who is to appear in Croydon Crown Court this week for sentencing on theft and fraud charges, does not appear to expect to get off with a non-custodial sentence: Alan Salter has … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Crime, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council
Tagged Alan Salter, Liberal Democrats, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP
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Momentum makes gains but Newman’s still in Blairite civil war
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the latest developments within local Labour parties, including in LibDem Tom Brake’s Carshalton and Wallington fiefdom Momentum, the grassroots movement established to support Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and values within the Labour Party, gained, well… some … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Caragh Skipper, Clive Fraser, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, David White, Outside Croydon, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Andy Bagnall, Caragh Skipper, Carshalton and Wallington, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, David White, Jo Milligan, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Sutton, Tom Brake MP, Tony Newman
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‘Disgusted’ councillor accuses Brake’s LibDems of ‘cult’ status
Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, on the latest break in the ranks in what was once a LibDem single-party state The barely disguised tensions within the Sutton Liberal Democrats were exposed during the General Election campaign, when one of their … Continue reading
Posted in 2017 General Election, 2018 council elections, Hamish Pollock, Outside Croydon, Paul Scully MP, Ruth Dombey, Stephen Fenwick, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Conservative, Elaine Drage, Hamish Pollock, John Drage, Liberal Democrats, London, Tom Brake MP
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Candidates call for Commission inquiry into Brake’s charity link
The LibDems in Sutton have been having problems with charities lately. After one of their councillors pleaded guilty to siphoning off thousands of pounds from a local charity for the elderly, now election candidates are demanding that a local Muslim … Continue reading
Posted in 2017 General Election, Charity, Church and religions, Matthew Maxwell Scott, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP
Tagged Carshalton, Carshalton and Wallington, Charty Commission, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Matthew Maxwell Scott, MCWAS, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Tory
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Splitters! LibDems resort to panic appeal to ‘lend’ votes
KEN LEE reports from another battleground seat, where accusations over a ‘dirty’ campaign have been flying among the bluebottles around the unemptied bins of Sutton It’s all gone a bit Monty Python in the Carshalton and Wallington marginal seat, where … Continue reading
LibDems having a Brake-down in Sutton as UKIP stand down
BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, on a development today which could alter the political make-up in south-west London for years to come The Regressive Alliance is alive and kicking in Sutton, where UKIP has opted to keep their General Election … Continue reading
Umunna gets the call as ‘special guest’ to pep up Reed’s rally
WALTER CRONXITE on the snail-like progress of Labour’s selection process, UKIP’s choice of Barwell’s bouncer as a General Election candidate, and news from neighbouring constituencies Nearly five years since he was selected as Labour’s candidate in the very safe seat … Continue reading
Posted in 2017 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Croydon North, Croydon South, Kathleen Garner, Lambeth Council, Michael Swadling, Paul Scully MP, Peter Staveley, Steve Reed MP, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Bonnie Ash, Carshalton and Wallington, Chuka Umunna, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Emine Ibrahim, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Peter Staveley, Steve Reed OBE, Sutton, Sutton and Cheam, Tom Brake MP, Tory, UKIP
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Scully and Sutton Tories sent scrambling over St Helier plans
JAMES KILLDARE, our health correspondent (recently successfully put out to tender), reports on a growing row in Sutton over the Conservatives’ opaque plans for one of the area’s largest NHS hospitals It started so casually, with Sutton’s two MPs together … Continue reading
Sutton councillor takes on LibDem Brake over incinerator
Tom Brake, the only London LibDem MP to retain his seat at the last General Election following five years as a Tory enabler in the coalition, is to have an extra challenge in his Carshalton and Wallington constituency on June … Continue reading
Something smelling fishy about Sutton’s environmental record
Sutton’s growing reputation for being an environmental disaster area has just got even worse after allowing one of the area’s beauty spots, Carshalton Ponds, to be drained of water right in the middle of the waterfowl breeding season. The move … Continue reading
‘Bollinger’ Bolger accused of bullying Sutton councillor
The most senior official at Sutton Council has been accused of intimidation and bullying after instructing the borough’s lawyers to fire off a second threatening legal letter to an elected councillor in a matter of weeks. Niall Bolger, Sutton’s chief … Continue reading
