Result:
Clare Hilley (Con) 1462 Ian Payne (Lab) 1222 Charlotte Lewis (BNP) 157 Patricia Gauge (Lib Dem) 150 Mary Davey (Green) 115 Kathleen Garner (UKIP) 48 Mark Samuel (PCh) 13 John Cartwright (OMRLP) 11electorate 11173 : turnout 3178 (28%)
Education 2nd February 2009: There has been a lot of debate in Croydon recently about reorganisation of schools. The substance of what is taught is more important than the precise structure of schools or "academies". Pupils should be taught a broad range of knowledge on geography and history, instead of artificial box-ticking forms or SAT tests. They should be able to calculate and punctuate correctly. We should reintroduce the system of pounds, shillings, pence, crowns, farthings, groats and florins, in order to stimulate the proper teaching of numeracy.
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The council elections in 2006 gave the voters a meaningless choice between two self-perpetuating degenerated hierarchical parties, instead of giving real power to ordinary people.
The Conservative and Labour parties take it in turns to “govern” (i.e. oppress) the people, and to throw insults at each other across the council chamber, but in reality they both perpetuate the oppressive and reactionary rule of the imperialist bourgeoisie which has ruled for centuries.
They impose local taxes which people cannot afford, and they allow essential public services to decay or be sold for profit. Instead of representing the real concerns of local people, or investing in progressive social programmes in Croydon, the so-called “main” parties are just the local delegations of nationwide political machines which divide between themselves, and distribute to their rich establishment friends, the spoils of the worldwide imperialist network of exploitation and oppression.
A vote for the Labour Party or Conservative Party will also serve to prolong and perpetuate the existing system which has led to the invasion of Iraq, and the imperialist occupation by the western powers in Afghanistan.
A vote for the Official Monster Raving Loony Party – at any level – will tell the other parties:
“Smash the Hierarchical Lib-Lab-Con-Trick Parties!” and “Build a Democratic People's Croydon!”
A Vote for the OMRLP will send an invigorating wind of revolutionary fervour which will clang resoundingly in the council chamber, help to build a progressive Loony society, and shatter the arrogance and complacency of both of the old parties.
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing
embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained
and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows
another.”
Mao Tse-Tung, 1927
“We must establish the habit of working and living in a prepared and militant way in every sphere,
full of revolutionary vigour and ardour, and opposed to senility, stagnation, idleness and laxity.
Party officials and members must also have revolutionary optimism and a strong desire for work, and
give full play to their creativity and zeal, so as to push ahead with all work energetically. At the
same time, they ought to acquire high cultural attainments and live optimistic, cultural lives.”
Kim Il-Sung, 1986
The Official Monster Raving Loony Party wants to build a diverse, pluralist, and tolerant democratic society in which there is mutual respect for awide variety of different cultures, viewpoints and lifestyles. Anybody who dares to suggest otherwise should be ruthlessly exterminated.