Councillor Tony Newman, head of Croydon Council, seems a very confused man to us.
He is meant to be running a Labour council, but makes even Croydon South Conservative MP Richard Ottaway look like the man of the people.
Instead of promoting affordable, accessible and health benefitting services like Purley Pool – Coun Newman wants to shut this vital facility down.
Instead of helping more state school kids to learn to swim Coun Newman will be denying them this life-saving skill if this pool shuts.
Instead of fighting tooth and nail for as many people as possible in Croydon to be paid better wages, Coun Newman hands some new council crony a yearly salary of £120,000 even when told it is £20k more than this person is worth.
Come on Coun Newman, get it together or are you aspiring to be more Tory than Mike Fisher ever was?
MR & MRS J THOMPSON
Sanderstead
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