The Labour Party in Croydon

Healthy Free School Meals
Croydon’s Labour Councillors have started the New Year by committing to a ground breaking pledge ahead of the Council elections this coming May. They have promised to provide free and healthy school meals for all the children who attend Croydon’s Primary schools. Leader of the Opposition Labour Group, Councillor Tony Newman said: “This is a clear and costed pledge that will benefit all children in Croydon’s Primary schools and will improve health, behaviour and educational performance. “We will pay for the free school meals by scrapping the free newspaper the Council publishes and distributes (£80,000), disbanding the Council’s private police...

New Year Honour for Brenda
Croydon Labour are delighted at the news that the Queen has honoured Labour Councillor Brenda Kirby with an MBE for services to the community in Croydon. Brenda has been an amazing servant of the people of Croydon for many years and this award is a small recognition of her work for New Addington and for Croydon. The Croydon Guardian have full details, the details below are an extract: New Addington Councillor, Brenda Kirby, was also awarded an MBE for services to the community in Croydon. Grandmother, Mrs Kirby, said: “I couldnt sleep when I found out I was so...

Christmas message 2009
Councillor Tony Newman wishes everybody a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year...

Back the ban
www.BackTheBan.com Check out the new campaign web site launched on Boxing day, to oppose the Tory plan to bring back hunting. You can watch a video, find out about the ban, sign a petition and write to the parliamentary candidates. The Tories have not changed. A vote for any Conservative Candidate will help them form a majority. A majority that they would then use to repeal the hunting ban. www.BackTheBan.com...

Christmas meeting to discuss secret tory deals
The seriousness of the mounting financial crisis engulfing Croydon’s Conservative Council is finally being acknowledged. The Mayor has agreed to Labour’s demand for a special Council meeting to discuss the decision to gamble with £300 million of Croydon taxpayers money. The emergency meeting is to be held just 4 days before Christmas on the evening of 21 December. There are two issues of deep concern which will finally be discussed in public at the meeting. The first is the decision to build a new Council headquarters building costing hundreds of millions of pounds. The second issue is the way in...

Environment
Our 2009 annual conference took place at the Stanley Halls, South Norwood. Its theme was how to make Croydon truly green. How to create new green jobs. How to build...

Croydon Education Crisis
The Conservative Council has plunged Schools and the Education services into Crisis over a long period of time. The council has ignored local residents and parents when it comes...

Stop the Tory Council Luxury HQ
Visit our micro site at www.CroydonLabour.org.uk/Luxury and sign the peoples petition Our position is clear. Croydon has tens of empty office blocks, why does Croydon Council want to build yet another...