Tag Archives: Tories
Old battlegrounds revisited as local elections get ever closer
It is just 229 days until the May morning when the winners, and losers, will be declared of local elections that will determine who runs Croydon Town Hall until 2018 – potentially to reap all the political benefits of the … Continue reading
Steve Reed MP: “Here’s my end-of-term report”
The House of Commons is in recess for the summer, marking the end of a very busy few months as the new MP for Croydon North‘s for STEVE REED It is eight months since the Croydon North by-election, where local … Continue reading
Sutton’s Tories in meltdown as they face “yellow wash”
The Liberal Democrats defied all national trends and their party’s unpopular part in the ConDem coalition to hold Stonecot ward with a 7.7 per cent swing from the Conservatives in last Thursday’s Sutton Council by-election. If repeated in the 2014 … Continue reading
Shirley Oaks hospital, the NHS, and checking the small print
In Croydon, “GP-led commissioning” is already seeing NHS patients referred to profit-driven private hospitals, who use the opportunity to try to make even more money. This is a salutary lesson submitted by our loyal reader A friend recently had her … Continue reading
Is Mayday washing its hands of proper patient care?
What is the connection between these two pictures? Short answer is that they we both taken at “Croydon University” Hospital a couple of weeks ago.
