We Warned Labour

Our failing Labour Council has driven Croydon to the brink of bankruptcy due to their terrible choices.

£15,000 of debt every hour since 2014. That's over £1.5 billion debt making Croydon one of the worst run Council's in the country.

We warned them this would happen over many, many years - yet they chose to ignore us and carry on regardless.

Here we'll be exploring more about how they got into this mess, and demonstrating where we held them to account over the years that they've been in power.

Labour have bankrupted our Borough

Year after year Labour were warned that their poor choices would have dire consequences. Sadly that has now come to pass.

Croydon Council is bankrupt - £1.5 billion in debt and in the process of trying to work out how to dig itself out of this terrible hole.

News

Croydon Labour are still not listening - says Regina Road resident 

Tuesday, 18 May, 2021

At last night’s Cabinet Meeting Ms Fransoy Hewitt, the lady whose Regina Road mould-ridden soaking wet flat, was filmed by ITV News in March, gave the Labour Council an update on the leak and disrepairs affecting her home. 

The clock is counting down to the local elections in May 2022

Tuesday, 18 May, 2021

Last night, 17th May, saw yet another Cabinet meeting and yet another exercise in ensuring that there was no opposition to the dreadful choices of Croydon’s failing Labour Council.

Regina Road - the report that Croydon Labour didn’t want voters to see

Tuesday, 11 May, 2021

Croydon Conservatives Response to the Independent Investigation into the Regina Road flats

Closed and Secretive Labour Refuses to Publish Vital Information

Wednesday, 21 April, 2021

In 2014, Croydon Labour’s manifesto promised that a Labour Administration would be “the most open and transparent council in the history of Croydon” - a phrase oft repeated by their long-time Leader Cllr Tony Newman.

Two Labour councillors resign over bankrupting Croydon - but they didn't do it alone

Wednesday, 10 March, 2021

Croydon Labour Councillors Tony Newman and Simon Hall have this evening announced that they will be standing down from their wards with immediate effect, triggering by-elections in the respective areas of Woodside and New Addington North.

How a Failed Ideology Led to Croydon’s Bankruptcy

Wednesday, 9 December, 2020

As Croydon Council plunges into bankruptcy with vital public services facing swingeing cuts, there is one question uppermost in the minds of residents – Why and how did Labour get us into this financial mess? The answer is simple. Ideology.

How the council got itself into the mess it is now in

Monday, 30 November, 2020

Most followers of Croydon politics will be aware that in October 2020 the Council’s auditors, Grant Thornton, felt compelled to issue a Report in the Public Interest, which highlights its concerns about how the Labour Council’s finances have been run for the last few years.

Labour’s bankruptcy means vital flood protections have been cancelled

Sunday, 15 November, 2020

As a result of our failing Labour Council officially bankrupting our borough, vital flood protections will be scrapped as a cost cutting measure, local Conservatives have learned.

Labour choose party politics over vulnerable children

Thursday, 12 November, 2020

An Open Letter to Cllr Alisa Flemming, Labour Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Learning.

Dear Cllr. Flemming,

Croydon’s Failing Labour Council is Bankrupt. Official.

Thursday, 12 November, 2020

Croydon’s failing Labour Council is officially bankrupt - that's the view of the most senior finance officer at the Council, who today issued a Section 114 notice.

This second devastating report slams the Labour Leadership of the Council by revealing: