It took less than a month after Reform’s Barry Martin successfully campaigned to be elected to Staffordshire Council for him to realise that the job wasn’t really his cup of tea.
Why? Well, because ‘Barry doesn’t do dull and boring’. This, he feels, makes him incompatible with the heavy burden of tedium a councillor must bear.
He outlined his concerns in a previously public Facebook post:
Now thinking of resigning.
Moving on to more interesting things to do, so dull n boring, the next months as far as i can see long long mtgs with contrary ppl, endless travel, training n emails, rein it in on the social media.
Moi? Barry doesn’t do dull and boring, as u know. Maybs gone up a seriously irritating, brain-numbing branch line and the pay is so poor for all u do. pushy others demand incessantly. admins strangely n leaders on the big bucks.
Taking a leaf out of the current US administration’s tendency to govern via Twittter poll, he asked his Facebook followers for:
your thoughts. As the song goes – Should I stay, or should I go?.
Apparently very few people cared enough to voice an opinion either way. But I’m sure the residents of Staffordshire will rest ever so easy now he’s announced that he’s not (yet) going to be the sixth councillor Reform lost in quick succession. He’s going to stay. Sigh.
Had a blip. NOT RESIGNING. Team Reform on it!
The New European reports that this isn’t the first time the unlucky constituents of Staffordshire have had to suffer lazy nonsense from a party with more than its fair share of far right tendencies.
…in the noughties, BNP councillor Steve Batkin only spoke twice in his first two years and one of those was to ask what the word “abstain” meant.