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#WadGate II, the sequel: Tory Fisher hasn’t paid back a penny
Three years on from #WadGate, the Town Hall allowances scandal which brought down the leader of the Croydon Conservatives, and Mike Fisher has not paid back a penny of the public money that he paid himself secretly in his final … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2017 General Election, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Mike Fisher
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Tagged #WadGate, Barwell, Conservative, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Member of parliament, Mike Fisher, Shirley, Tory
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Newman’s time for change as he faces threat of ‘dead sheep’
WALTER CRONXITE on the ins and outs of the latest council “non-reshuffles”, and how the the spectre of #WadGate and others’ past crimes still stalk the Town Hall’s corridors of (not much) power “They used to say that being attacked … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2016 London elections, 2018 council elections, Croydon South, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Dudley Mead, Hamida Ali, Heathfield, Jason Cummings, Jo Negrini, London Assembly, Margaret Mead, Mark Watson, Matthew Kyeremeh, Mike Fisher, Pat Ryan, Paul Scott, Planning, Sara Bashford, Selsdon & Ballards, Steve O'Connell, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Tim Pollard, Toni Letts, Tony Newman, Whitgift Foundation, Woodside
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Tagged #WadGate, Barwell, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Dudley Mead, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Matthew Kyeremeh, Mayor, Mike Fisher, Steve O'Connell, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Toni Letts, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Hard-up Croydon rents out top floors of £140m council office
Cash-strapped Croydon Council is to rent out the top two floors of the world’s most expensive local authority offices, Fisher’s Folly. They reckon that the lodgers will contribute about £500,000 per year to the borough’s finances. So at that rate, … Continue reading →
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Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, URV
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Tagged #WadGate, Bernard Weatherill House, CCURV, Conservative, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, Jo Negrini, Labour, Mike Fisher, Tory
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#WadGate Fisher gets rejected again, this time in Bromley
“Whatever happened to Mike Fisher?” no one at Inside Croydon Towers has ever asked. Fisher was the leader of Croydon Conservatives who mismanaged the council for eight years, until he was caught with his hand in the Town Hall cookie … Continue reading →
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Bogus Barwell’s donors include exiled oligarch and NHS seller
Having flagged up Bogus Barwell, the millionaire developers’ best mate, news reaches us of the donors who have contributed thousands of pounds to his “Don’t Mention the Tories” campaign to hang on to his parliamentary seat in Croydon Central. These … Continue reading →
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Posted in "Hammersfield", 2015 General Election, Business, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, John Burton, Mike Fisher, Property, Sarah Jones MP, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged #WadGate, Barwell, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Mike Fisher, Sarah Jones MP, Tory, Westfield
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Report covers up council’s role in #WadGate scandal
Croydon Council has overseen a cover-up of the role of senior public officials in the #WadGate scandal, in which over the course of a year the now former council leader, Mike Fisher, was allowed to trouser an extra £13,000 of … Continue reading →
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Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Julie Belvir, Mike Fisher, Nathan Elvery, Shirley North, Steve Hollands, Steve O'Connell, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Vidhi Mohan
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Tagged #WadGate, Barwell, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Labour, Mike Fisher, Steve O'Connell, Tony Newman, Tory, Vidhi Mohan, Whitgift Foundation
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In £100m black hole, Labour’s opted not to dig their way out
WALTER CRONXITE reports on Croydon Labour’s first council Budget for eight years, and finds them deferring much of the pain of dealing with the Town Hall’s “financial black hole” Croydon’s Labour council yesterday revealed its 2015-2016 Budget, which falls well … Continue reading →
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Posted in Business, Council Tax, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Leisure services, Libraries, Nathan Elvery, Refuse collection, Sarah Jones MP, Simon Hall, Street lighting, Tony Newman
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Tagged #WadGate, Conservative, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, Labour, Mike Fisher, Taberner House, Tony Newman, Tory
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#WadGate: Fisher is forced to resign as Croydon’s Tory leader
Mike Fisher, for eight years the leader of Croydon Council, was forced to quit as the head of the Tories at the Town Hall on Friday night, less than 72 hours after he was exposed as having secretly claimed an … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2015 General Election, Andrew Pelling, Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, David Osland, Dudley Mead, Gavin Barwell, Mike Fisher, Shirley North, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, URV
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Tagged #WadGate, Andrew Pelling, Barwell, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Labour, Member of parliament, Mike Fisher, Shirley, Tony Newman, Tory
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#WadGate the Movie. Or Mike Fisher: My Part In His Downfall
@ArfurZTowcrate clearly has too few followers on Twitter. This piece of (albeit derivative) brilliance deserves a much wider audience. Do read the sub-titles…
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Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Mike Fisher
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Tagged #WadGate, Adolf Hitler, Barwell, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Tory
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