Cllr Sam Journet

Reform UK | Group Leader, Basildon Borough Council

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: An Essex Billionaire is raking in more than £3 MILLION a day through housing illegal migrants.

Graham King, dubbed the “Asylum King”, and his company Clearsprings, generated around £1.2 BILLION in turnover in just 12 months.

Reform UK will end the asylum scam and deport all those who have entered our country illegally, and with no lawful right to remain in Britain.

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: Essex Police have confirmed THREE undesirables have been arrested, following last night’s abhorrent samurai sword attack in Basildon.

Most importantly, we’re relieved to hear the young man’s injuries are NOT life threatening, and we wish him a very speedy recovery.

A huge thank you to Basildon Police for their swift response and for the hard work they continue to do, keeping our borough safe.

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: Last night, a young person was STABBED with a samurai sword by a group of NINE undesirables outside Sports Direct in Basildon.

Our thoughts are with the victim and their family. We do not have an update on their condition at present, but we will share more when reliable information becomes available.

People should be able to walk through Basildon town centre without fearing violence like this.

Under a Reform UK administration, making our town centres safer will be a priority. Enough is enough.

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: The Conservatives in Basildon will have to increase Council Tax by 19.85% to cover a £3.75 MILLION shortfall in the finances, according to latest council reports.

Poor financial management and a refusal to cut waste across the borough has led to this overspend in just SIX MONTHS.

In May 2027, a Reform UK administration will cut the waste, stop costly vanity projects and put core services FIRST.

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: In February 2026, Reform UK pledged NOT to increase Councillors’ allowances in Basildon.

Now, after the successful June vote, the Conservatives are planning to put them UP. Again, we are pledging AGAINST IT.

With Basildon carrying around £800 MILLION of debt, increasing councillors’ allowances is exactly the sort of decision residents are rightfully angry about.

Do you support Reform UK and agree that Councillors should NOT be voting themselves a pay rise?

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: Kashim Chowdhury worked FIVE Civil Service jobs at the same time, fraudulently earning more than £284,000 of taxpayers’ money.

Just weeks ago, Labour and the Conservatives voted AGAINST Reform UK’s proposal to bring council officers back into the workplace.

Residents pay the wages. They deserve accountability, proper oversight and a council that is working for them.

In May 2027, a Reform UK administration will bring our workforce back into the Council offices. It’s time to get BACK TO WORK for Basildon residents.

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: Nigel Farage says 69% of Britons want to deport ALL foreign criminals.

Foreign offenders are still living freely despite deportation orders. The Tories admitted they won't deport ALL of them.

Under a Reform UK Government, EVERY foreign offender will be deported. Do you support our policy?

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

When you vote Reform, you get reform. 👏

[Linden Kemkaran @LeaderofKCC]

‼️Last week at full council we successfully passed an important motion thanks to months of hard work from my @reformparty_uk Councillors.‼️

➡️ We voted to stop council (ie Kent’s taxpayers) funding of translation and interpretation services for non-English speaking residents. This does not apply to the use of BSL or Braille, which we will continue to fund.

➡️ From now on, people who can’t speak English but require KCC’s services, will be signposted towards free translation apps, or at their own cost, the private hire of translators/interpreters.

➡️ We believe this is a wholly reasonable position and that individual responsibility should be encouraged at every turn where KCC’s responsibility is not statutory.

🩵Vote Reform - get Reform🩵

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

@LeaderofKCC @reformparty_uk Fantastic job Linden. 👏

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: Kent County Council has voted to scrap taxpayer-funded translation services for people who do not speak English.

The policy would mean public money is NO longer being used for translation services into other languages.

Do you support this fantastic Reform UK policy?

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: A 93-YEAR-OLD woman was raped and killed, by a Sudanese illegal migrant who was found lying NAKED on top of her.

Marie-Louise, described locally as the “neighbourhood grandmother”, had been left disabled after a stroke and was unable to leave her bed.

Reform UK will stop the boats, suspend the asylum process and deport foreign convicted predators like him from our beautiful country.

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: This faux outrage is SICKENING. For 15 YEARS, Don campaigned for a war memorial. Reform UK gets it moving, and suddenly THAT is controversial.

Don campaigned tirelessly for a permanent memorial. His family publicly called for that ambition to be fulfilled. We listened, we acted, and funding has now been secured for permanent memorials in Basildon and Laindon.

So spare me the faux outrage because Reform UK happened to be the people who moved it forward. The memorial is happening, Don’s campaign will finally become reality and our veterans will be remembered properly.

If people want to argue about who gets the credit, they can argue amongst themselves. We’ll get on with delivering it.

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

The pretenders.

[Jess Caine @jessalinecaine]

I AM SPEECHLESS. Tory Cllr Damian Corfield from Dudley has come under fire for wearing military attire at a Remembrance Sunday service.

He previously admitted that he has NEVER served in the Armed Forces in 2025

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

Absolutely horrendous.

Enough is enough.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: 20,000 foreign criminals subject to deportation orders are living in communities across the country

[@thetimes]

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

@greeneyedmum I think you misunderstand the post.

Yes, we will.

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: Nigel Farage will launch the largest mass deportation operation in modern history, removing EVERY foreign national who entered this country illegally.

Do you support this Reform UK policy?

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

@kenicky01 What we’ve done locally in Basildon, as the opposition group.

Plenty, in other words.

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: We promised change. This is what we have delivered in just SIX MONTHS, from opposition.

- Saved 200 hectares of Green Belt: 320 football pitches of Green Belt saved from greedy developers.

- Halved Green Waste Charges: Secured council approval to cut garden waste collection charges by 50%.

- Opened the Books: Secured greater transparency over council spending and how taxpayers’ money is used.

- Tackled Vape Shops and Barbershops: Passed a motion to stop the concentration of these businesses in council-owned commercial premises.

- Fly-Tipping Task Force: Secured a coordinated approach to enforcement, reporting and faster removal in 72hrs.

- Ward Spending Transparency: Forced greater transparency over how council resources are distributed across Basildon’s wards.

- Stopped Overdevelopment: Secured the withdrawal of the emerging Local Plan if the judicial review fails.

- Two New War Memorials: Moved plans forward for permanent memorials in Basildon and Laindon.

That’s SIX MONTHS in opposition, and in May 2027, we’re asking for your democratic support to run Basildon council as the administration.

Can Reform UK count on your support?

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: TWENTY THOUSAND foreign criminals facing DEPORTATION, are living in social housing across Britain.

Reform UK will deport these criminals, and re-distribute the social housing to British residents who need it most.

Do you support our policy?

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

That makes Basildon’s £5m in unpaid rent look rather small.

Complete idiocy from those in charge of Council’s to allow this to happen.

Britain needs Reform.

[Cllr Jex Parkin @JexParkin]

🚨REVEALED: £27.5m IN UNPAID RENT OWED TO BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL

New figures obtained by Reform UK Birmingham reveal that £27.5m in rent remains unpaid across Birmingham’s council housing and temporary accommodation.

My Shadow Cabinet member for Housing, Cllr Cherie Waddingham, uncovered that more than 28,000 tenant accounts are in arrears.

Her research also reveals that 33% of council housing arrears and 51% of temporary accommodation arrears have been outstanding for over 12 months.

Meanwhile, the Council has written off approximately £782,000 in current council housing tenancy arrears in the past 3 years - and rising.

The Regulator of Social Housing reports average arrears of 3.2% of annual rent among large private registered providers, compared with 6% for Birmingham’s council housing.

All this while Birmingham City Council faces enormous financial pressures, 36,500 applicants are on its housing register, and hundreds of council properties remain empty.

Only Reform will fix this crisis.

[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

More tosh from the citizen journalists that are the Byline Times.

Basildon Council are lucky to have the best Monitoring Officer in the country.

My god, do we need it.

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴 NEW

‘Impartial’ Council Lawyer on £1,350 a Day Posed With Nigel Farage at Reform Mayor’s Invitation

By @josiahmortimer

Mark Greenburgh is paid to keep Basildon council's work politically neutral but critics say the visit showed officials rolling out the red carpet for Reform UK

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[Cllr Sam Journet @ReformUKSam]

🚨BREAKING: We promised change. This is what we have delivered in just SIX MONTHS, from opposition.

- Saved 200 hectares of Green Belt: 320 football pitches of Green Belt saved from greedy developers.

- Halved Green Waste Charges: Secured council approval to cut garden waste collection charges by 50%.

- Opened the Books: Secured greater transparency over council spending and how taxpayers’ money is used.

- Tackled Vape Shops and Barbershops: Passed a motion to stop the concentration of these businesses in council-owned commercial premises.

- Fly-Tipping Task Force: Secured a coordinated approach to enforcement, reporting and faster removal in 72hrs.

- Ward Spending Transparency: Forced greater transparency over how council resources are distributed across Basildon’s wards.

- Stopped Overdevelopment: Secured the withdrawal of the emerging Local Plan if the judicial review fails.

- Two New War Memorials: Moved plans forward for permanent memorials in Basildon and Laindon.

That’s SIX MONTHS in opposition, and in May 2027, we’re asking for your democratic support to run Basildon council as the administration.

Can Reform UK count on your support?