“I am thrilled to be standing as Labour’s candidate for Mayor of Croydon and so grateful to Labour Party members for their support,”

“Croydon needs change. I love my home, but we’re being let down. Our borough is the ‘fly-tipping capital of England’, our streets and neighbourhoods feel neglected, and too many people feel unsafe, while our town centre is a depressing shadow of the delight it used to be. That changes with me – I’ll put people first.

I’m proud to have won the trust of members with such a clear mandate for change, and now I want to earn the trust of the public. Together, we’ll make Croydon a place to be proud of.”

This was the statement of Labour candidate for next Croydon Mayor election in 2026.

Davis has served as a councillor for the Waddon ward. Davis is an “experienced” political operator, despite having only been a councillor in Croydon for three years.

She was a councillor in Southwark and a (losing) parliamentary candidate in Southampton ten years prior. Tangled Up In Blue, which she wrote, is characterized as “an examination of the rise of the Blue Labour movement.”

Make no mistake, Davis for me is NOT the candidate for a Croydon Mayor.

According to Rowenna Davis the problems in Croydon are:

• Social isolation is a contributing factor to poor health, particularly among senior citizens. High rates of mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression, affect about 47,978 adults at any one time.
  
• Childhood obesity, with children aged 4-5 being especially at risk.
  
• Homelessness is the intricate connection between housing, health, and social exclusion; a large number of people are homeless or lonely.
  
• Over 2,000 households are in temporary housing, and the number of applications for homelessness has climbed by 46%.
  
• The difficulty of offering vulnerable groups and rough sleepers suitable long-term housing options and assistance. Health and social care services that are disjointed and frequently challenging to use, and that are structured on individual illnesses rather than comprehensive requirements.

The above are problems in nearly every council around the United Kingdom and not just Croydon, and with such candidate like Rowenna Davis, the Labour party will be having very soon problems like John Cotton and Zafar Iqbal in Birmingham council (both Labour party) where they cannot even sort out the “bin issue” despite that “iron lady of Labour party” Angela Rayners MP was involved to settle the deal with Union.

All this started in 2023. Now, we are 2025 and still not solved. Overflowing bins, rat infestations, and public anger are escalating as Birmingham’s bitter bin strike drags into the summer with no resolution in sight.

Even talks between Birmingham City Council and Unite the Union have collapsed once again, with the council announcing it is done negotiating is yet another gimmicks.

Completely the same will happen in Croydon if Davis to win. We have to remind ourselves that Croydon was before in Labour hands however under Labour the Croydon council went bankrupt.

Make no mistake, the sole rival to Davis was Manju Shahul-Hameed, a councillor for Broad Green and a member of the council administration that so embarrassingly destroyed the borough’s finances in 2020.

In Croydon there are over 400,000 people where “several laws” applies on daily basis. Nothing is working as should, doesn’t matter what we touch and what measures we are taking in consideration.

I personally passed to council 48 suggestions of which NONE has been executed since 2022 apart 2 partially. And all were more or less important and emergency matters. Therefore, Rowenna Davis is not the person to solve the problems in Croydon, she doesn’t have a clue what is going on in Croydon despite that she is full mouth how she knows Croydon.

I asked Sir Keir Starmer on written why the candidate must be member of party, why the candidate cannot be non-party individual who to be appointed based on to solve the problems and who might be in his/her hard and mind more Labour party supporter then many real Labour party members.

No reply received from Keir Starmer PM, no reply from Labour party.

Make no mistake, Labour has changed the voting system for mayors after Reform UK swept to victory in two mayoral elections in May 2025.

As part of a “radical reset”, Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister and Local Government Secretary, ditch the UK’s first-past-the-post voting system, in which the candidate with the most ballots wins.

It has  been replaced at mayoral level by a European-style system known as the ‘supplementary vote’, where candidates are ranked by preference.

The move is a return to the arrangement that was previously used to elect London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan, as well as his predecessors Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson