Richard Tice of Reform has mandated that anyone who starts employment at any Reform-controlled council going forward will not be allowed to join the Local Government Pension Scheme. It’s hard to retrospectively remove the entitlement from those who already work…
Local councils have some responsibility for children who have to be taken into care. Any that end up under the governance of Councillor Andy Osborn, of the Roman Bank and Peckover ward, should be particularly pitied. Councillor Andy Osborn (Reform…
The Refom-controlled Nottinghamshire County Council seems to be taking a leaf out of Kent Council’s book by unilaterally cancelling a wide variety of the planned meetings for June including Cabinet, Overview and Scrutiny Committee, Planning and Rights of Way Committee,…
It took less than a month for Adam Smith, one of Reform’s councillors for West Northamptonshire, to get himself suspended. Reform are being a bit vague about why, saying only that: Following a number of concerns regarding the conduct of…
In between cancelling statutorily required meetings, Reform has appointed an extra cabinet member in place as part of the DO(L)GE effort to find unspecified “efficiencies” and cut costs. So far the main result appears to have been to increase costs,…
It’s been noted that Reform leader of Kent Council has had their Twitter/X account suspended for violating the rules of the platform. So far we don’t seem to know why – but given the state of X they must really…
After winning control of Kent County Council, Reform have taken action to do…very little. Their Liberal Democrat colleagues report that of the first 5 committee meetings scheduled in June they have cancelled at least four of them, and the status…
Higham Ferrers was supposed to hold a local election on May 1st, but it got delayed due to the death of a candidate. It’s going ahead soon. And naturally Reform are standing a few candidates for councillor. At least one…
Reform councillors in Doncaster took time out of their busy day of stopping government waste in order to install a cardboard statue of their beloved leader, Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage cut out inserted in the Reform office in the council!…
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’.…
