@grahamm118 @hackneyindepen1 Local Labour Party controls when Labour councillors can speak.
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Andrew Pelling
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Independent vs Party councillor — what’s the difference?
Same role. Same vote. Same responsibilities.
The difference is freedom.
An Independent councillor can act on each issue based on what’s best for residents — not a party line.
#LocalDemocracy #BenshamManor
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Off to the House of Lords. No, I've not been enobled. I'm off to a reception to mark a quarter of a century of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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@Andrew_Marshall @simon_schama & Russian invasion of Manchuria & Korea.
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@simon_schama maybe but US submarines destroying shipping had as much to do with it
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The reason that buyers are not prepared to stomp up for a London leasehold flat is because increasingly, they understand that they are NOT buying property . They are only buying a time-limited right to occupy, subject to terms and conditions, fees and charges.
UK Property Insight@ukhpinfo
Proportion of London New Build Flat sellers who are not recouping their original investment is rising at at alarming rate.
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Please leave bar charts to the @LibDems . Credibility of Labour bar charts compromised for months to come. In local by-elections it’s the @LibDems who are competing with Reform.
The Labour Party@UKLabour
🚨BREAKING: new poll suggests there is just one point between Labour and Reform in Gorton and Denton. Every vote will count on Thursday. Back Labour and choose unity over Reform’s division.
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@CllrIanParker After the parliamentary by-election it all looks rather worse than 1968 for Labour in Greater London and could poll third in vote share in Croydon.
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This is Rowenna Davis campaigning with and for former Labour leader Tony Newman who bankrupted Croydon. The financial consequences of that Labour administration continue to hang over the town. Any chance of an apology?
Rowenna Davis@RowennaDavis
Croydon’s Conservative Mayor Perry has raised Council Tax by £600 a year for the average household. The consequences in a cost of living crisis are unforgivable.
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Labour claiming 1,000 doorknockers today. Greens claiming 2,000. Can't see a number for Reform, but this alone is an extraordinary sign of the demise of two-party politics.
Kate Ferguson@kateferguson4
I hear Labour have over 1,000 poe0ple out knocking doors in the byelection today
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@InsideCroydon @JasonForCroydon One of the issues at the last Mayoral election was the Labour council’s attitude to the local press. Dispiriting that the Conservatives doing little better including wasting £££’s going to court to try to ban public access to
already self published council papers.
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Dismally deluded.
The only thing that @JasonForCroydon has stabilised is the council’s debt - at £1.4bn, the same as when he took office in 2022. But he has hiked Council Tax by 33%.
Now he’s too scared to be interviewed by @InsideCroydon
insidecroydon.com/2026/02/11/33-…
Jason Perry - Mayor of Croydon@JasonForCroydon
You cannot rebuild a borough without first stabilising its finances. When I became Mayor, Croydon was bankrupt and rudderless. Today, investment is flowing, regeneration is moving and confidence is returning. A lot done. A lot more to do. jasonperry.uk/stabilisingfin…
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@InsideCroydon @JasonForCroydon It’s the council tax escalator!
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@JasonForCroydon Desperate stuff.
The man who has hiked #Croydon Council Tax by 33%, closed public libraries, sacked lollipop patrols but awarded himself a pay rise, tries to bask in a 3sec pop video clip.
insidecroydon.com/2026/02/11/33-…
But too scared to be interviewed by @InsideCroydon
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It was genuinely fantastic to see Croydon featured so positively on The One Show – prime-time national coverage of Taylor Swift’s music video Opalite, filmed here in the Whitgift Centre, putting us on the map for Swifties.
And lovely to see co-presenter JB Gill of JLS celebrating Croydon – the town where he was born.
Culture and creativity are central to Croydon’s identity and economic future. #confidenceincroydon @TheOneShowShow @centralewg
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@JasonCroydonCon @CroydonTories @RowennaDavis @CroydonLabour and pursue a policy of recruiting younger council officers on lower pay rates but exposed to more senior roles that allow officers a chance for quicker career progression.
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@JasonCroydonCon @CroydonTories @RowennaDavis @CroydonLabour Which means that it should be possible to propose an alternative budget. 3 suggestions - a further reduction in council tax payers’ payment to pension fund as fund now over £ 2 billion; alter pension fund asset allocations in fund to return to higher returns on the fund …
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On 25th February, councillors set council tax and spending.
If @RowennaDavis and @CroydonLabour oppose the Budget, they must explain their alternative before the vote - not after.
Scrutiny means setting out your plan when decisions are made.
Residents deserve clarity.
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@SimonJTFox Conscientious Councillor. Has drainage been included in the fill in to deal with the occasional flooding that took place in the subway?
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Progress at Croydon Minster!
I recently shared plans for improvements around Croydon Minster and I am back to check on progress
The underpass, a known hotspot for drug use and antisocial behaviour, has now been filled in
This is practical action to make Waddon safer #Waddon
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December 30 250th anniversary of the Battle of Quebec defeating the ridiculous anti Catholic attempt of Americans to recruit French Canadiens.
1776 Live@250YearsAgoLive
Brigadier General Richard Montgomery orders his men to form into attack lines for an assault on Quebec City tomorrow morning, despite an ongoing blizzard that has been continuing since December 27.
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@EdwardMorelloWD Good idea. Victorian gothic quasi religious architecture is oppressive and impacts culture of the place.
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Unpopular opinion: Move us out permanently. Make it a museum.
Kate Ferguson@kateferguson4
This is mad. The Palace of Westminster is in desperate need of repair. It cannot be allowed to accidentally burn down and be destroyed because we wont pay for it.
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Includes 27.6% council tax increase to fund the increase in spend.
Sarah Jones MP@LabourSJ
Under the Tories last multi year setttlement, we received only a 4% cash terms increase, representing a real terms cut. Thanks to this Labour Government’s fair funding formula, we have a £158m increase in cash terms over the course of this Parliament, representing a 37% increase
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Why is #Croydon’s increase so much smaller? @RowennaDavis
Taiwo Owatemi@TaiwoOwatemi
Coventry is getting a massive increase in funding under the new Local Government Funding Settlement - a £179.7 million boost delivering a 46% increase in the council’s core spending power and one of the highest funding increases in the country.
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Labour friendly message that Labour government moves £ from county councils to London councils compromised by suggesting that this merely a Croydon deal. As it is Croydon voters have not regained confidence in Croydon Labour to spend wisely. Council budget up a lot less than 28%.
Rowenna Davis@RowennaDavis
WE WON!
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