We Warned Labour

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.

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