Showing posts with label Leicestershire County Council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leicestershire County Council. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2026

The Joy of Six 1553

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Michael Savage reports that journalists are self-censoring their reporting on right-wing protests, Donald Trump's administration and tr...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Former Reform cabinet member in Leicestershire joins Restore

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Leicestershire County Council's minority Reform UK administration has lost a councillor and former cabinet member, reports the Leicester...
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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Now Leicestershire Reform want to get rid of their Private Pike

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Embed from Getty Images When Reform UK formed a minority administration at Leicestershire County Council last May, 22-year-old Joseph Baum w...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Leicestershire Reform councillor tweeted in support of ICE after the shooting of Alex Pretti

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Joseph Boam, the Remain councillor and former deputy leader of Leicestershire County Council. tweeted an image including the words "I S...
Sunday, December 07, 2025

Tories and Reform have big falling out in Leicestershire over alleged threats of violence

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Embed from Getty Images Leicestershire’s Reform UK and Conservative parties have entered into a public spat over alleged threats of violence...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Reform UK councillor removed from Leicestershire cabinet amid complaints about "Islamophobic" emails

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Charles Whitford has been removed from Reform UK's Leicestershire County Council cabinet following complaints from three members of the ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Reform-run Leicestershire could pay £30m to consultancy firm

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Last week I wrote that Leicestershire County Council, which is run by a Reform UK minority administration, is to pay £1.3m to consultants. T...
Tuesday, November 04, 2025

Reform in Leicestershire to hand consultants £1.3m of pubic money to tell it what to do

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Leicestershire County Council is run by a minority Reform UK administration. And like Reform up and down the country, it took power with no ...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Leicestershire Reform UK cabinet exudes confusion over its budget

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Embed from Getty Images The minority Reform UK cabinet at Leicestershire County Council continues to play musical chairs. Its member for fin...
Monday, October 06, 2025

Reform In Leicestershire still think they can find millions of pounds of wasteful council spending

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Around the country, councils run by Reform UK are beginning to come to terms with the fact that there is little wasteful spending left to cu...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Reform UK Leicestershire councillor blames immigration for low water level at county reservoir

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If you're short of a blog story, Reform UK in the East Midlands will always come through for you. Sure enough, Michael Squires, a Leices...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Now Reform UK's former deputy leader of Leicestershire is under investigation for treating voters

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The former Reform UK deputy leader of Leicestershire County Council is under police investigation for electoral malpractice. Joseph Boam was...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Leicestershire Reform's cabinet member for children and families is a full-time student

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Photo by Grant Davies on Unsplash Leicestershire . Northamptonshire . Nottinghamshire . The carousel of stories about East Midland R...
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Thursday, August 21, 2025

Reform's chaotic stewardship of Leicestershire County Council is costing the public money

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Who, we have been wondering, will replace Joseph Boam, who was sacked by Reform UK as Leicestershire County Council's deputy leader and...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Reform UK sack Joseph Boam as deputy leader of Leicestershire County Council

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A local political story broke on social media over the weekend and now Leicester Gazette has written it up: Joseph Boam, who was appointed ...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Hunting for the Bonkers Arms in Medbourne

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I went to Medbourne today. The county's new on-demand bus service has made dozens of villages easy to reach - it's just a shame that...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

New Leicestershire Reform councillor was sacked as a police officer last year

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BBC News reports, nay reveals , that a newly elected Reform member of Leicestershire County Council was dismissed from Leicestershire Police...
Thursday, February 06, 2025

All Leicestershire's university libraries are now open to everyone

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Here's a good news story from the Leicester Mercury : Universities across Leicestershire are opening up their libraries to everyone in t...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Sunak takes questions from two "members of the public" who turn out to be Conservative councillors

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Rishi Sunak is very bad at politics. So bad, it seems, that his handlers are afraid to let him meet any voters. Here's Adam Bienkov for ...
Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Harborough less affected by boundary changes than expected

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HFM News has the news about the Boundary Commission's final proposals for Leicestershire. The idea of a radical redrawing of boundaries...