#Croydon East CLP

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Labour vote-fixing whistleblower outs himself at CLP meeting

LABOUR SELECTION SCANDAL: Nearly eight months late, grassroots members finally got to have a democratic say over who their local officials should be – with intriguing revelations at the constituency’s annual meeting. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Mr and Mrs Anonyvoter: Maddie and Mark Henson, who last night claimed he was the Croydon East whistleblower “Mr Anonyvoter”, Mark Henson, last night…

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NUTS! Croydon Labour blunders into new cover-up shock

Temporary fascia: from left MP Sarah Jones, Maddie ‘Mrs Anonyvoter’ Henson, Ben Taylor and Natasha Irons outside Labour’s ‘Nuts!’ office in Coulsdon Embroiled in a series of controversies, the latest being the cover-up of the vote rigging for their own Croydon East parliamentary selection, the local Labour Party blundered into a cover-up of a different sort in Coulsdon on Saturday. And no, this…

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Labour official in police probe picked for ward by-election

By our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE Local Labour official Melanie Felton was this afternoon named as the party’s candidate for the Park Hill and Whitgift council by-election. The public vote will take place on May 2, the same date as the London Mayoral and GLA elections. In the now traditional style of Croydon and London Labour, party members in the ward had no say in the selection. There…

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In Croydon's numbers game, selectorate is denied a vital detail

SELECTION SKETCH: Finally, Labour members in the new Parliamentary constituency of Croydon East have been allowed to have their say. KEN TOWL, right, went behind the scenes of this secretive process to choose someone who very likely will soon become an MP Handover: MP Sarah Jones, whose Croydon Central constituency is largely re-booted as Croydon East, congratulates selection winner Natasha…

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A bit Rich: members bypassed as Labour imposes candidate

The increasingly dysfunctional Croydon Labour Party yesterday tweeted that Purley resident Jess Hammersley-Rich is to be their candidate in the forthcoming Woodside ward council by-election. Selected by no one: Jess Hammersley-Rich has been foisted onto Labour members in Woodside The social media announcement was the first that grassroots members in Woodside heard about the ���selection”: there had…

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Finally Labour members will have a say in Croydon East saga

Columnist ANDREW FISHER looks forward to a rare moment of internal democracy in Croydon Labour this Saturday, as ordinary members in one scandal-hit CLP finally get the chance to choose their parliamentary candidate Being a Labour Party member in Croydon is rarely a joyful experience. In fact for members in Croydon East, it isn’t even an experience: we haven’t been allowed to meet since…

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Labour members ignored and disrespected over vote scandal

It is five months since the Labour Party established a local organisation to run its affairs in the new parliamentary constituency of Croydon East. There has never been a democratic general meeting of members of the Croydon East CLP to elect officials to run its affairs. Starbucks socialism…: when with Labour in Croydon East enter into any dialogue with  members? Instead, Labour’s London region…