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 Johnnyspireite7, on 09 May 2025 - 08:13 AM, said:

It's reported that 2 Reform Durham councillors have been forced to resign as they work for Durham Council. You can't be a councillor and an employee of the council.

It's reported that 1 Reform Newark Councillor has resigned as he didn't realise he had to take up so much of his free time to do a councillor's work.

The Newark one says he’s resigned due to a change in personal circumstances and cite his career in social care as the reason.

Not sure where you’ve read it is because he didn’t realise how much time it’d take up? A change in personal circumstances could mean a plethora of work-related reasons that have arisen.

I’m sure you’ve got a link citing your quoted reason?

[dart in the crossbar]

Mr Mercury, on 08 May 2025 - 08:25 PM, said:

Why would I know?
Give it another 4 years and you’ll be asking me if they’ve sorted out minister for defence, home secretary etc.

I thought that you might know because I thought that you were a member of Reform, and had an interest in Reform's plans for the County, and who will provide the political leadership and accountability for them. It's a fairly benign question, or so I'd have thought.

If you are a member of Reform in 4 years time and Reform take power at the GE you're correct in presuming that there'll be an interest from myself, and no doubt others, in who Reform will appoint to provide political leadership of the country at that time.

[dart in the crossbar]

Looks like Alan Graves, ex Mayor of Derby and elected member for Derby City Council was returned as a County Councillor. Given his experience, it may be that he will also have his hat in the ring for the leadership of the Council perhaps.

It will be of some interest to see whether Graves is favoured within the County Reform group as leader with his links to the City and (relatively) southern parts of the County. The media appear to be suggesting that the leader will be announced within the Council papers on Wednesday 14th May.

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Very weird case re. The tree that got cut down - randomly a potential Reform councillor was one found guilty

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Reform have announced their manifesto!

Among it is raising threshold for income tax to £20,000 (losing about £60 billion straight away).

The ability to build on green belt land (that’ll go down well when they start building prisons in the Peak District)!