Reform MP’s questionable claims about street problems anger residents

Angry residents have criticised their MP after she claimed their street had been blighted by violence and anti-social behaviour caused by illegal immigration.

Sarah Pochin, the Reform MP for Runcorn and Helsby in Cheshire, said in a video posted on Facebook she had received “disturbing reports” from residents and businesses about incidents happening in Greenway Road, Runcorn.

Residents said this portrayal of their street was “untrue” while Cheshire Constabulary said it had received no such reports.

MP’s claims about street problems anger residents, BBC

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Reform councillor’s boast about removing ‘trans-ideological’ books from children’s library sections was a lie

Paul Webb said he ensured books and material were pulled from children’s section of Kent libraries, but it emerges they were never there

A boast by a Reform UK councillor that he ensured the removal of “trans-ideological material and books” from the children’s section of his county’s libraries has fallen flat after it emerged that no such material ever existed there.

Reform councillor’s boast about removing ‘trans-ideological’ books from children’s library sections falls flat, theguardian.com

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Reform council brings in ‘British values’ flag rules

Leicestershire County Council’s new Reform leadership has scrapped the authority’s flag flying policy in its first cabinet meeting.

The move, approved at a meeting on Thursday, means a previously agreed schedule of flags to be displayed outside County Hall in Glenfield has been discontinued.

The list included flags to mark events celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month, Gypsy Roma and Traveller History Month and Windrush Day.

New Reform council leader Dan Harrison said the changes to flag flying protocols were “to celebrate British values that unite us all”.

Some staff groups at the council, where Reform formed a minority administration following May’s local elections, raised concerns about the move.

Harrison described the eight-minute cabinet meeting, which had only the flag flying policy on the agenda, as “historic”.

Reform council brings in ‘British values’ flag rules, BBC

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Reform’s phony war on ‘woke’

Three times Reform UK pledged to scrap schemes that don’t exist

Reform UK wants to scrap anything with even a hint of ‘woke’ about it. Now that they run 10 councils, they have their opportunity.

There’s just one problem: they keep targeting schemes that just don’t exist – at least not outside the imagination of the right wing press.

Reform’s phony war on ‘woke’, informuk.org

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Reform councils pledge to scrap LTNs that don’t exist

All 10 council areas controlled by rightwing party tell the Guardian they have no low-traffic neighbourhoods

Reform UK’s pledge to remove all low-traffic neighbourhoods from the council areas it controls looks to be achieved in record time after the 10 local authorities said they do not actually have any in place.

Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s chair, said last week there would be a “large-scale reversal” of existing LTNs in the 10 areas across England where the party won control of the councils in local elections on 1 May.

“We view these schemes with the same suspicion as mass immigration and net zero,” Yusuf told the Telegraph, adding: “You can expect, if you live in a Reform council, for there to be a much higher bar for any proposals for LTNs and for the large-scale reversal of these existing LTNs.”

The Guardian contacted the councils now run by Reform – Derbyshire, Doncaster, Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, North Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and West Northamptonshire – and they all said they had no such schemes.

Reform councils pledge to scrap LTNs – despite there being none in their areas, Tthe Guardian

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New Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns vows to sack county council’s diversity officers – except there aren’t any

Dame Andrea Jenkyns has doubled down on Farage’s pledge to sack diversity officers in Lincolnshire but the county council has revealed it does not employ any

Andrea Jenkyns’ vow to get rid of council diversity officers as one of her first acts as the new Reform mayor for Lincolnshire has fallen flat after it emerged that the county council doesn’t employ any.

New Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns vows to sack county council’s diversity officers – except there aren’t any, Independent

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