Reform mayor for Lincolnshire Andrea Jenkyns recently revealed the unsurprising news that due to her recent election victory:
We are going to have a Lincolnshire Doge. We are going to ensure that we get rid of diversity officers because amazingly Lincolnshire County Council is now Reform controlled.
And sure enough there are zero diversity officers employed by the council even just a few weeks into her tenure.
Such success! Wow! Only it’s less a sign of political efficacy when you find out that there never were any diversity officers there in the first place.
Do any of these people do even the most cursory of research into the jobs they want to be elected to?
As an anonymous Conservative said to the Independent about this very local mayor who is definitely acting only in the interests of very local people tackling very local issues:
“Someone who lives in Lincolnshire would know that there aren’t any DEI roles going in Lincolnshire Council.
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It the latest proof that Reform is a one-man band without the answers needed to tackle the problems facing hardworking families across Britain.”
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