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  1. Council boss quits, leaving 18-year-old in charge

    The recently elected leader of Warwickshire County Council has resigned, leaving his 18-year-old deputy in charge.

    Reform UK councillor Rob Howard, who was in power for 41 days, said he had made the decision with “much regret”, citing health reasons were behind his departure.

    Council boss quits, leaving 18-year-old in charge, BBC

    #GeorgeFinch #Quiting #ReformInefficiencyDepartment #RobHoward #Warwickshire #InTheNews

  2. Resignations, Cancelled Meetings and Culture Wars: How Reform UK Councils Are Descending Into Chaos

    Nigel Farage’s band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle, reports Josiah Mortimer

    After the election counts finished and the camera crews headed home, Reform UK councillors – over 800 of them now, running 12 councils – had to grapple with a new question: ‘What are we going to do now?’

    Now that question is starting to be answered.

    We’ve dug through local news coverage and talked to local constituents and opposition councillors on the ground to figure out what the new Reform councils have been up to. It’s not been smooth sailing, to say the least.

    Across England there have been stories of cancelled meetings, suspensions, resignations, and more than a few culture wars.

    Here’s just Reform’s local councillors have been getting up to since May 1st. It’s not been smooth running.

    Resignations, Cancelled Meetings and Culture Wars: How Reform UK Councils Are Descending Into Chaos, Josiah Mortimer, bylinetimes.com

    #cancelled #Chaos #failedToDoHomework #JosiahMortimer #Quiting #InTheNews

  3. Ineligible, inept and unspeakable

    Reform UK Ltd’s councillors, are already proving they are unfit or unwilling to serve

    A worrying, if not surprising, number of Reform UK Ltd’s new councillors have been accused of sharing extreme right-wing posts on their social media accounts. However, it’s not just the abhorrent racism, misogyny and links to cosplay fascists that Reform’s AI-based vetting procedure appears to have missed. While they were checking out potential representatives, maybe they should have asked them if they intended to hang around for longer than a couple of days after the election or even if they were actually allowed to be a councillor in the first place.

    The Reform company, sorry party, has already seen four of their new cohort announce that they can’t or won’t represent them in the council chamber, decisions that in some cases will cost local government tens of thousands of pounds.

    Ineligible, inept and unspeakable, yorkshirebylines.co.uk

    #AI #inept #Quiting #racism #vettingFail #wastingMoney #InTheNews

  4. New Warwickshire councillor sorry after discovering he can’t represent Reform UK

    A new Warwickshire county councillor has apologised for a “mistake” that means he will be unable to serve under the Reform UK banner for now.

    Councillor Luke Shingler swept to a comfortable victory in Nuneaton’s Galley Common ward having been promoted as the Reform candidate until five days before the ballot.

    He took to social media on the Saturday before the polls to tell residents he was not allowed to “run under a political organisation, party or movement due to my employment” but that it was too late to change ballot papers that linked him to Reform.

    New Warwickshire councillor sorry after discovering he can’t represent Reform UK, warwickshireworld.com

    #failedToDoHomework #LukeShingler #Quiting #ReformInefficiencyDepartment #Warwickshire #InTheNews