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Tag Archives: UKIP
Arse! Feck! Drink! Belmont by-election’s own Father Jack
Sutton reporter BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK on how a Tory ex-councillor’s foul-mouthed tirades have come back to haunt him, just in time for a Halloween by-election The people of Belmont, one of the quieter, more refined suburbs of quiet and refined south … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Neil Garratt, Paul Scully MP, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Belmont, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Neil Garratt, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tory, UKIP
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Ex-councillor quits Tory party and blasts local leadership
Another former Tory councillor has quit Croydon Conservatives, launching a farewell blast at the party’s local leadership. Tony Pearson, who was a councillor for New Addington until 2014, announced over the weekend that he was quitting the Tories, complaining that … Continue reading
Boundary changes seem to cement Town Hall’s political divide
Calling in the Boundary Commissioners may have fixed the political map of Croydon for years to come, as WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, reports Labour’s generally underwhelming result in the Croydon council election last week does not look so bad … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Andrew Rendle, Caragh Skipper, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Jeet Bains, Maddie Henson, Sarah Jones MP, Waddon
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, UKIP, Waddon
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The more things change, the more they stay just the same
Bleary-eyed after just a couple of hours’ sleep, our political editor WALTER CRONXITE has been crunching some numbers on the local election results Four years ago, the Prime Minister was David Cameron, Nick Clegg was leader of the LibDems and … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Addiscombe East, Ashburton, Caragh Skipper, Chris Clark, Fairfield, Mary Croos, Niro Sirisena, Shirley North, Tony Newman, Waddon, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Shirley North, Tony Newman, Tory, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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Here we go again as McKenzie tries to make another comeback
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports on the finalised candidates list for the Town Hall elections, which eventually got published by the council while the returning officer was on holiday He’s back. Again. After an absence of nearly … Continue reading
UKIP find only eight candidates to stand in local elections
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, rounds-up the latest additions to candidate lists from the LibDems, Greens and UKIP for May 3 UKIP, a party without a leader and, post-Brexit, seemingly without any purpose, has virtually abandoned the pretence … Continue reading
‘If Vince Cable can’t win in south London, where can he win?’
WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on the near-total absence of any real third-party challenge for the local elections, now just five weeks away However unseemly the sight of Labour and Tories slugging it out in the Town Hall Chamber on Monday … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Esther Sutton, New Addington North, New Addington South, Old Coulsdon, Peter Underwood, Richard Howard, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tory, UKIP
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Greens recycle FibDem graph for South Norwood by-election
WALTER CRONXITE charts the latest unseemly developments in the ward by-election in South Norwood Croydon Greens are proving themselves to be as good, or as bad, as other mainstream political parties – at being economical with the actualité. The Greens’ … Continue reading
Motorists’ body in High Court challenge to 20mph zones
Our transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON gets up to speed with the latest Judicial Review brought against Croydon Council from a fringe group that is supported by UKIP’s Godfrey “Bongo Bongo Land” Bloom Croydon faces the threat of a second High … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Environment, Policing, Stuart King, Tony Newman, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Peter Morgan, Tony Newman, Tory, UKIP
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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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Police Borough Commander: ‘I won’t attend a CCC meeting’
Chief Superintendent Jeff Boothe, the first black officer appointed by the Metropolitan Police to be Croydon’s Borough Commander, has confirmed that neither he nor any other officers will be attending meetings organised by the controversial Croydon Community Consortium. Boothe is … Continue reading
Posted in Andy Tarrant, Hamida Ali, Jeff Boothe, Mark Watson, Policing
Tagged CCC, Conservative, Croydon Community Consortium, Elizabeth Ash, Hamida Ali, Jeff Boothe, Labour, Peter Morgan, Tory, UKIP
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Council-funded group promotes Tory campaign against 20mph
A “community” group that claims to be “apolitical” and which has received thousands of pounds of grant funding from the council, has promoted the campaign making the case against the council’s policy of introducing 20mph zones across the borough. It … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Hamida Ali, Mark Watson, Nathan Elvery, South Croydon Community Association, Tony Newman
Tagged 20mph zones, CCC, Conservative, Croydon Communities Consortium, Croydon Council, Elizabeth Ash, Hamida Ali, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Nathan Elvery, Peter Morgan, Tony Newman, Tory, UKIP
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Coulsdon’s Carservatives declare: ‘Carry on Speeding’
The Tories in Coulsdon have formed an unholy alliance with a car campaigner whose extreme conduct even saw him kicked out of UKIP. Our transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON reports The leadership of the Croydon Conservatives has been issuing post-truth emails … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Environment, Mario Creatura, Policing, Purley, Sara Bashford, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Mario Creatura, Peter Morgan, Purley, Sara Bashford, STUART KING, Tory, UKIP
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Council drops public poll to speed up introduction of 20mph
Croydon Council officials have admitted that they need to speed up their own work if they are to implement 20mph speed limits on all the borough’s residential streets. The council wants to skip the opinion surveys which it used as … Continue reading
