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The week at Westminster: voting on the end of the NHS
Former Croydon MP ANDREW PELLING reviews last week’s parliamentary activity from our local representatives Another lightweight week for our local MPs. Perhaps, with the Cheltenham Festival taking...
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The (two-day) week at Westminster: Ottaway keeps busy
ANDREW PELLING summarises the latest, truncated, week’s business for our local Members of Parliament A truncated week in Parliament last week, with just two days “in the office” before an elongated...
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The week at Westminster: life can be such a fag for our MPs
It was a busy week in Parliament for our local MPs, ANDREW PELLING reports Back at Westminster after the Easter break, and there were 22 visits to the voting lobby in just four days of the...
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St Helier decision puts Sutton MP Burstow on the spot
CROYDON COMMENTARY: An MP for neighbouring Sutton got a most unwelcome birthday present yesterday, with the announcement of proposed closure to the Accident and Emergency and the maternity departments...
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Latest vote results will help Brake decide which way to jump
When the ward-by-ward voting results from the London Assembly elections are released tomorrow, the music will begin in a game of musical seats for the MPs of Croydon and Sutton. ANDREW PELLING offers...
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Blue-rinsed Sutton shows real reasons for boundary changes
ANDREW PELLING’s expertise as a polling tipster saw him call correctly the outcome of voting in Croydon this month, by a margin of 484 votes out of almost 80,000 cast for Labour and the Tories. So...
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LibDem MP happy to put the Brake on Sutton seat changes
Tom Brake, the Sutton LibDem MP who could see his Carshalton and Wallington seat broken up in a merger with safe Tory Croydon wards, believes that the coalition government’s boundary changes are dead...
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Sutton Tories look north for infusion of fresh blue blood
The Conservative party in Sutton are clearly unconcerned that they are perceived to be a party of arrogant posh boys who don’t know the price of a pint of milk (copyright 2012 N Dorries). They have...
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Baronetcy true blue blood comes to Labour’s aid in Sutton
Croydon, twinned with Arnhem in the Netherlands, has strong attachments with the Parachute Regiment. This may explain why political candidates of all parties are so readily parachuted into the area so...
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Noted: How our local MPs voted to oppose food bank motion
On Wednesday, in the House of Commons, the Labour party put forward a motion that called for the government to look into the use of food banks in Britain. The number of people – many of them...
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Sutton’s LibDem MPs face election defeat, says pundit
The LibDems in Sutton could be facing a Bluewash at the 2015 General Election, and may lose both the borough’s MPs, the “charismatically challenged” Tom Brake, the deputy leader of the House in the...
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Bad day for LibDems in Sutton – and for St Helier Hospital
Stephen Fenwick, a councillor in Sutton, was forced to resign as a Liberal Democrat yesterday after pleading guilty in court to racially aggravated assault. Fenwick was given a conditional discharge...
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Dear LibDems: I remain a liberal, a democrat and a councillor
Sutton LibDems’ suspension of Councillor Nick Mattey could have a damaging impact on the General Election campaign in their parliamentary constituencies, reports WALTER CRONXITE Tom Brake’s efforts to...
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Environment secretary Davey helps Brake dine out with Viridor
More evidence has emerged of ties between incinerator operators Viridor and senior members of the Liberal Democrats in Sutton, including Tom Brake, until last month the deputy Leader of the House in...
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Mayoral contender calls for review of incinerator schemes
A leading contender for selection by Labour to run for the Mayor of London next year says he will ask whoever is the Environment Secretary in the new Government to conduct an urgent review of all waste...
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Secretive incinerator scheme is a bad deal, say Sutton Tories
There are other Sutton LibDem councillors who, like Nick Mattey, believe that there are serious flaws in the secretive £1 billion scheme to build an industrial incinerator at Beddington Lane, according...
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Carshalton candidates gang up on Brake over incinerator
If Tom “Thanks very much for the £275,000 gift to a local church” Brake doesn’t manage to hang on to his Carshalton and Wallington parliamentary seat in the General Election on Thursday, then whoever...
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LibDem’s visit to Sutton is a case of Lamb to the incinerator
Norman Lamb, the full-time Paul O’Grady impersonator and some time MP for North Norfolk, is visiting Wallington today to recruit Tom Brake’s support and so ensure that he will have the backing of at...
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The week at Westminster: voting on the end of the NHS
Former Croydon MP ANDREW PELLING reviews last week’s parliamentary activity from our local representatives Another lightweight week for our local MPs. Perhaps, with the Cheltenham Festival taking...
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The (two-day) week at Westminster: Ottaway keeps busy
ANDREW PELLING summarises the latest, truncated, week’s business for our local Members of Parliament A truncated week in Parliament last week, with just two days “in the office” before an elongated...
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