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Reform UK failed to win a single County Council by-election yesterday.
The best part? @ReformUKSam and @russellquirk threw everything at a Town Council by-election, even saying it was neck and neck.
Here’s the result… Reform UK trounced.
It’s essential that @ReformUKSam and @EssexPoliceUK provide full details of this including the crime number, the name of the other Reform UK councillor involved and whether the gunman is still at large.
Reform UK's private police in Colchester have been given an official reprimand after they illegally handcuffed two teenage girls.
Operation Vanguard is a private security patrol employed at the cost of £150,000 to the taxpayer, to wander the streets of Braintree, Chelmsford and Colchester.
If we look a little further though, unsurprisingly, Reform UK have some serious questions to answer.
The BBC reported yesterday that two of the private police patrol, run by a firm called My Local Bobby, were officially rebuked by the police for illegally detaining these girls.
Essex Police said two offences of assault without injury were recorded and “learning requirements” had been “passed to the security staff employers”.
The £150,000 contract for Operation Vanguard was awarded without tender to My Local Bobby by Peter Harris, Reform leader of the council.
The goons handcuffed two teenagers they believed to be shoplifting, but these security staff have zero powers of detention under the law.
As you can see from Essex County Council's own website FAQs below, they have no powers at all.
It feels to me that the citizens of Essex should be aware of this fact and be prepared to stand up to these glorified store detectives.
FAQs state that they cannot arrest people, they have no powers of stop and search, no power to ask questions and absolutely zero enforcement powers.
They are literally performing 'citizens arrests' and being paid £150,000 by the council for it.
If those in Essex know this then it could easily open the council up to substantial lawsuits if their vigilantes carry on 'arresting' people illegally.
Reform UK are wasting public money again and setting themselves up to be sued. Again.
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Hi @IsabelOakeshott the @PrivateEyeNews revealed today you head a UAE company conducting unregistered lobbying activities in UK on behalf of African countries and that it involved British politicians (your husband included). Home Office unaware. Care to comment?
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, and now Leeds to Hertfordshire, @reformparty_uk have been contesting by-elections week after week.
And they keep losing.
Five more defeats yesterday. And they haven’t won a by-election in over a month.
And they’re down to 20% in the latest @FindoutnowUK poll.
They want you to think they’re unstoppable.
They want you to believe their victory is inevitable.
They’re not.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
🚨 EXPOSED: Al Jazeera secretly films UKIP leader Nick Tenconi's plan to “build an army” to “just f*** things up”.
He's sat with Jack Ross, who funnelled Zimbabwean money to the UVF terror group.
They're violent fascists and grifters.
We're building a movement to stop them.
What is happening at GB News...
60-90 jobs are going
Numbers are well down for Farage / Anderson / Mogg
Is this the reason for Farage TV (Reform TV)
Have the money men decided that Farage is 'over'?
'Stars AXED!' GB News Bloodbath EXPOSED | Daily Expresso https://t.co/C5o3GU70pE via @YouTube