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Tag Archives: UKIP
For McKenzie’s political ambitions, the carnival is over
VOTE 2014: Winston McKenzie’s colourful career as a failed politician and hit-and-miss community activist has seen him accused in the past of not being able to organise the proverbial piss up in a brewery. After today’s shambles on North End, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, South Norwood, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Croydon, Nigel Farage, South Norwood, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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More murders and rapes in what Tories say is “safer borough”
Evening all. WALTER CRONXITE points his flashing blue light at another of the major issues for voters to consider before Thursday’s local elections Issue No3: CRIME THE ISSUE: Unanimity among the political parties on crime: they’re all agin it. Crime … Continue reading
UKIP’s campaigning for a return of council common sense
VOTE 2014: The polls in the local elections open on Thursday morning. Inside Croydon invited leading figures of the local political parties to outline why our loyal reader should consider voting for them. PETER STAVELEY makes the case for UKIP … Continue reading
Class warrior calls for better democracy in local elections
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Next May, JON BIGGER will be standing for election as a candidate for Class War, an avowedly anarchistic group. In part, as he explains here, his reasons for doing so are the despair at the way we are … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, South Croydon
Tagged Class War, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, South Croydon, Tory, UKIP
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Thornton Heath lawyer wants to give major parties a wigging
VOTE 2014: It is not just some among the black and minority ethnic Conservatives in Croydon who feel that they have been overlooked by their own party. Thornton Heath lawyer Dwain Coward, previously a Labour supporter, has become so disillusioned … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Coulsdon Town, David Osland, Karen Jewitt, Louisa Woodley, Pat Clouder, Thornton Heath, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, David Osland, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Stephen Lawrence, Thornton Heath, Tory, UKIP
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Scouring Croham’s campaign for anything that might inspire
VOTE 2014: Over the next couple of weeks, we will preview the local elections with a look at key wards and the key issues. With 15 candidates from seven parties or groups standing in Croham, with the Greens, UKIP and … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Gordon Ross, Jason Perry, Jon Bigger, Maria Gatland, Michael Neal, Parking, Property, Pubs, Shasha Khan, South Croydon
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, Green Party, Jason Perry, John Jefkins, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Maria Gatland, South Croydon, South Croydon, Tory, UKIP
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Galloway gives pupils a lesson in how politics works
Here’s an entertaining video if you have a spare hour this bank holiday. George Galloway’s Respect Party is not – as they undertook to do so 18 months ago – fielding any candidates in Croydon’s local elections next month. The … Continue reading
Telegraph poll suggests UKIP poised to win Town Hall seats
The results of a national opinion poll, published yesterday, suggest strongly that UKIP might yet manage to get at least one councillor elected to Croydon Council on May 22, which could hand them the balance of power for the next … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield, Fieldway, New Addington South, Peter Staveley, Robert King, Shirley North, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fieldway, Labour, London Assembly, New Addington, Nigel Farage, UKIP
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Coulsdon residents summon candidates to hustings sessions
There are plans for three sets of election hustings in Coulsdon next month, organised by local residents. On Thursday May 8, there will be a hustings for the Euro MEP election at the Coulsdon Community Centre from 7.30pm. The residents … Continue reading
Time to close Croydon Council’s Private Members’ Club
Reduce the number of councillors in Croydon Town Hall and save at least £1m over four years, Inside Croydon suggested this week. DAVID ASTON, candidate in Ashburton for UKIP, here says it is wrong for part-time councillors to be paid … Continue reading
100 days to go: UKIP names its Town Hall election candidates
With 100 days to go until Croydon’s local elections on May 22, UKIP has revealed the names of 17 candidates for wards in Croydon Central and South. UKIP has never had a councillor elected to Croydon Council, but 2014 may … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, 2014 council elections, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Central, Croydon South, Fairfield, Fieldway, Heathfield, Kenley, New Addington South, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon & Ballards, Shirley North, South Croydon, Waddon, Winston McKenzie, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Conservative, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon West, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Crystal Palace, Fairfield, Fieldway, Heathfield, Kenley, New Addington, Nigel Farage, Peter Staveley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon and Ballards, Shirley, South Croydon, South Croydon, Tory, UKIP, Waddon, Woodside
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Residents’ association to field candidates in local elections
Coulsdon’s version of UDI* looks to be a step closer, with at least one of the area’s large and very active residents’ associations determined to have its members stand in next May’s local council elections. Richard Thurbon, the chairman of … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Community associations, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, David Osland, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Ian Parker, Jeet Bains, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association
Tagged Cane Hill, Conservative, Coulsdon, Coulsdon West, Croydon, London, UK Independence, UKIP
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“Bloomsday” in Croydon as McKenzie attacks UKIP colleagues
There was a large sigh of relief last night, audible from Purley to Katharine Street, as Tories across the borough realised that UKIP, the political “party” of own-goals and self-inflicted injuries, was about as much of a threat in Croydon … Continue reading
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
Fisher fears defections to UKIP and bans “musical chairs”
While contractors were moving in £3 million-worth of new furniture to Croydon Council’s palatial new offices over the past week, Mike Fisher, the leader of the Conservative-run council behind the building of the £140 million edifice to local authority vanity, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Fairfield, Mike Fisher, Shirley North, Thornton Heath, Vidhi Mohan
Tagged Conservative, David Cameron, London, Operation Black Vote, Tory, UK Independence, UKIP
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UKIP threat sees Croydon Tories put EU on Town Hall agenda
If you’re interested in seeing how local democracy is run, then you had best get along to the Town Hall this evening to see the latest meeting of Croydon Council. The next such assembly of Croydon’s 70 councillors – all … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Clare Hilley, Coulsdon East, Croydon Council, Fairfield, New Addington South, Peter Staveley, Schools, South Croydon, Waddon
Tagged Conservative, Elections in the European Union, Labour, London, Nigel Farage, UK Independence Party, UKIP, YouGov
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UKIP’s solution on hot local issues? Hold a vote on them
Is there a better way? PETER STAVELEY, a UKIP candidate at next year’s Croydon Council elections, says his party would stage a public vote on important issues such as the incinerator When the controversial proposal for an incinerator at Beddington … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, 2015 General Election, Addiscombe West, Peter Staveley, Planning
Tagged Cambridgeshire, Councillor, Croydon, London, Parties, Politics, UK Independence, UKIP
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UKIP announces plans for 2014 Town Hall elections
UKIP, the UK Independence Party, intends to target Conservative-held wards in next year’s local council elections in Croydon and take full advantage of any confusion over the Tory-led government’s position on Europe. In 2014, UKIP will be seeking its first … Continue reading
UKIP’s “appalled” local chairman asks Croydon “to forgive”
Less than two days before voting begins in the Croydon North by-election, Winston McKenzie has been disowned by his own party’s local chairman who told Inside Croydon that he and other local UKIP members are “appalled” by their candidate’s homophobic … Continue reading
UKIP disowns Croydon candidate’s homophobic comments
Another year, another party looks in prospect for Winston McKenzie, if anyone will have him now, after he was disowned last night by his own UK Independence Party over his latest homophobic comments. McKenzie’s “colourful” political career has seen him … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, Croydon North, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Croydon, Croydon North, Labour, London, Nigel Farage, UK Independence, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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Croydon questions: Winston McKenzie, UKIP
Ahead of the London Assembly elections on May 3, we have circulated all the Sutton and Croydon candidates with the intention of publishing their responses in full, unedited, and without the artifice, interruptions and grandstanding of the usual hustings. Winston … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Crime, Croydon 8/8
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Labour, London, London Assembly, UK Independence Party, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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