I was born in Clapham and spent my early years in Streatham.

Full statement

I have been a resident in the Coulsdon/Purley area for the last 46 years and married for 52 years with two grown up children & 4 grandchildren.

Recently retired I was a Consulting Engineer in the construction industry and ran my own Consultancy Practice for 38 years based in Sutton and latterly in the borough of Croydon.

I have watched from the sidelines with dismay the gradual decline of the borough of Croydon under various administrations decaying from a forward-looking modern town centre built largely in the 60’s, to be reduced to an indebted, shadow of its former glory as a thriving centre of commerce. The incompetence of previous administrations has led to vast debts which will probably never be repaid, leaving local council taxpayers on the hook for significant debt repayments far into the future.

I am now, both angered and saddened by the state of the borough and I have reached to point at which I feel I have to do something to arrest the decline and be an active participant in rebuilding the borough. I believe a Reform administration can make a material difference to the direction Croydon must take.

I now have the time and energy to put something back into Croydon and hitherto under the two-party system, saw nothing to choose between them. I have been inspired by the advent of a 3rd force in politics, with an agenda for real change and a break with the past.

The new energy that is apparent, both in the new party and the population at large will enable us to inject new perspectives into the debate and have a material impact on people’s lives in the borough. I am a Ward Champion in Coulsdon Town.