The Council winning a bid to block #AsylumSeekers staying at Bell Hotel in #Epping creates an extremely dangerous precedent as rent-a-mob will now move onto to another hotel or perhaps many
I predict #Runcorn will be in uproar within 48 hours
Are we moving toward civil war?
#Runcorn's #Reform SarahPochin said she'd CCTV footage of "late-night knife & drug crime" & had crime ref nos
In her maiden speech, Pochin said there were a number of "illegal immigrants" in Runcorn & HMOs were "breeding grounds for organised crime gangs
Cheshire Police said it was "not aware of any issues or concerns relating to homes of multiple occupation in the Runcorn area"
It said it received 8 reports of incidents at 1 HMO between May & Nov. 5 were burglaries: 3 were no crime occurred
Here's a great analysis of the Runcorn by-election from @CherylMorgan which seeks to correct various misapprehensions about why Reform won, whose votes they gained, and why Labour (and the media) are drawing the wrong conclusions.
And its admirably concise for a busy Saturday morning.
h/t @Naich
https://www.cheryl-morgan.com/lies-damned-lies-and-the-british-press/
So, Reform has won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. Judging by what I am seeing in the news and on social media, this is a major defeat for Labour whose voters, we are told, are deserting the party en masse for Reform. The lesson for Labour is apparently clear: they need to double-down on their
Watching the BBC lunchtime news on the telly it was clear that Ben Brown and some of the other BBC journos could barely contain their excitement at the fascists winning elections.
I dunno, maybe a responsible broadcaster could broadcast some warnings from history about what happens when fascists get elected rather than just cheering them on?
#LocalElections #Runcorn #BBCBias #MediaBias #Fascism #ReformUK
Crossing my fingers, but without much hope, for a Lib Dem win on Hull & East Yorkshire. Lib Dems have the best ground game of any party but Reform have had a decently good night and are the favourite there.
The Reform candidate there actually is the least worst Reform candidate I've seen but … you know … Reform. Still don't want them to succeed.
#RuncornAndHelsby #Runcorn #LocalElections #LocalElections2025 #UKPolitics #UKPol