Tag Archives: UKIP

Election 2017: Will it be a horse of a different colour?

Posted on June 8, 2017 by

ELECTION COMMENTARY: As Croydon goes to the polls today, American politics professor DR BOB BEATTY takes a brief pause to reflect after a frantic week following the various campaigns As a professor of political science at Washburn University in Topeka, … Continue reading →

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With two weeks to go, this typical voter remains unconvinced

Posted on May 26, 2017 by

ELECTION COMMENTARY: Outside the ‘bubble’ inhabited by the evangelistic political activists, ‘ordinary’ voters are often left unmoved by all the campaigning. With two weeks until election day one Croydon voter, KIRSTIE SMITH, remains undecided There’s a General Election coming up. … Continue reading →

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As Momentum mobilises, Barwell has a fight on his hands

Posted on May 25, 2017 by

With the General Election campaigning getting underway once more, political editor WALTER CRONXITE finds that the Tory incumbent is right to be behaving as if he faces a real threat to his political career The larger political parties are getting … Continue reading →

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Croydon BID cancels election hustings after Manchester bomb

Posted on May 23, 2017 by

An election debate for Croydon Central, due to be staged tonight by the town centre’s Business Improvement District, has been cancelled following last night’s horrific bombing in Manchester. At least 22 were killed, including several children, and another 50 were … Continue reading →

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Croydon South election hustings, Christ Church, Purley, Jun 1

Posted on May 23, 2017 by
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Crystal Palace election hustings, St John’s, May 31

Posted on May 21, 2017 by
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Barwell says £1.5m to save lives on our roads is ‘wasteful’

Posted on May 11, 2017 by

KEN LEE, our south of the borough correspondent, reports on the latest not-very-bright piece of opposition-for-opposition’s sake dreamt up by the local Conservatives The latest exercise in political point-scoring from Croydon’s Tories, including gaffe-prone Gavin Barwell, could put children’s lives … Continue reading →

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