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Andrew Pelling

for Central Croydon

Andrew

Putting Croydon First

I have been in Croydon politics for a long time, and I have lived in Croydon even longer. My family have been in Croydon for over six generations, and I was first elected as a councillor in 1982. I was lucky enough to be returned at every election until 2006, when I stood down having won the Croydon Central seat in the 2005 general election. In 2000 I was elected to the first London Assembly, and served until 2008.

When I was elected as an MP I used to boast that I had an independent streak. Since becoming an independent MP that streak has been given full reign, and I have felt much freer to stick up for Croydon, and to venture opinions on issues of the day.

The Leader of London’s Green Party once called me ‘the acceptable face of Conservatism’, I suppose I am now just ‘an acceptable face’. When I was on the GLA, Mayor Livingstone said ‘although he is a wicked Conservative, I do suggest you ask your Local GLA Member, Andrew Pelling, because he does take up local issues’. My independence means I am now just a politician who ‘takes up local issues’, which is no bad thing.

I work fourteen hours a day, fifty one weeks a year; doing all I can for Croydon and Croydon residents.

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