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General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

Carrot Flower King said:
Dame Andrea Jenkyns 🇬🇧
@andreajenkyns
I want transparency, not nepotism and jobs for boys in cosy closed door deals. I am deeply concerned about some big executive roles possibly being lined up in Mayoralty areas before my arrival, so I am demanding a new open recruitment process
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So, shall we add public sector recruitment policies and regulations to that list of things Andrea doesn't understand?

Bugger me, but this lot would have been utterly sodding useless at all the recruiting and interviewing and all that even I did. And that's before we get on to DBS checks and the like.
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She should be careful what she wishes for. Most of her political colleagues, and she herself, would be without employment anywhere.
 
Apparently a council employee isn't necessarily barred from being a council member. They can stay on if they resign from employment with the council.
If they don't Their election is susceptible to legal challenge by way of an election petition.
This would need to be brought by another candidate or four electors in the relevant electoral division within the "relevant time periods as set out in the legislation and associated guidance."
The period for a challenge on formal procedural grounds is 21 days from the date of the election.
 
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The sad fact is, the entire MSM including the BBC seems to want a Reform government.

They will probably get it.
 
Andy_Ross said:
The sad fact is, the entire MSM including the BBC seems to want a Reform government.

They will probably get it.
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It all makes sense if you take the view that the media isn't interested in balanced reporting of the truth but in maximising traffic and eyeballs.

I mean there may be some outlets which do report in a truthful and balanced way but the market for it seems to be much smaller than for being appalled at the current state of things, doomscrolling and pearl-clutching.
 
Andy_Ross said:
We have to boycott foreign owned businesses like Take Aways, Kebab Shops, Barbers, Curry Houses, Corner Shops, Taxis and Petrol Stations.

Put them all out of business and they will have to leave, that way we can have proper British shops again and get the foreigners out.

Councils controlled by Reform should be withdrawing planning permission and licenses for foreign owned businesses to force them out.

Or so I have been told
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I remember what it was like before the immigrants turned up and started running some of the local stores, half-day on Wednesdays and shut by 5:30. If you got home from work to find out that you needed a couple of pints of milk then you weren't having your cuppa tomorrow morning
 
Mongrel said:
I remember what it was like before the immigrants turned up and started running some of the local stores, half-day on Wednesdays and shut by 5:30. If you got home from work to find out that you needed a couple of pints of milk then you weren't having your cuppa tomorrow morning
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Well not quite - back then your milk was delivered by electrical milk floats early in the morning.
 
We always had a bottle of steri on standby just in case.
We got two bottled every morning and three on Friday to see through the weekend.
 
Total number of new Reform council resignations is now 22.

So that's 22 by elections at £10,000 a pop.
A good use of taxpayers money.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Another one bites the dust.
Newark this time.

In a post on Facebook, Reform UK Newark said: "Significant recent changes to Desmond's personal circumstances have led him to conclude that he is not in a position to deliver the level of service to the people of Newark West that they deserve and require."

So another by-election.

it's obvious some of them just put names down to make up the numbers
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Did he find out that expense claims were going to be checked?
 
Andy_Ross said:
Total number of new Reform council resignations is now 22.

So that's 22 by elections at £10,000 a pop.
A good use of taxpayers money.
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I can't find a link to that figure, but I know several have resigned because they would otherwise have to give up their jobs working for the council. Another has resigned due to changes in personal circumstances leading to him concluding he cannot serve. The cynic in me wonders if the changes in circumstances were "getting elected".
 
It would be all too easy to get the impression from the Dear Leader that being elected to a public office is just a bit of a laugh. You're in the local paper now and then saying something or other is a disgrace and that's about it. Only 22 paper candidates saying they didn't want the job anyway is fewer than I might have guessed.
 
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