Hi @TiceRichard you shared this graphic about Reform UK on Bradford Council.
Some slight issues, in fact, some major ones:
- Union Flag: Already flown daily from council buildings before Reform UK took control. Not a new achievement.
- Council finances: Major capital and financial reviews were already planned or underway before Reform UK took control.
- Sugden End HWRC: Reopening has not been delivered. It remains a proposal awaiting formal approval.
- Grooming gangs inquiry: Bradford had already committed to participating. The independent inquiry does not say Reform UK “secured” Bradford’s inclusion.
- Devolving power locally: Vague. No specific transfer of powers, functions or budgets is identified.
- Bingley Pool: The campaign long predates Reform UK and involved residents, community groups and councillors across parties. The pause was not solely a Reform UK initiative.
- Wind farm: Opposing a proposed wind farm is a political position, not a delivered achievement.
- City-centre ASB: Action and funding to tackle ASB were already underway, including £450,000 for a City Centre Team approved before Reform UK took control.
- Homelessness: Rough-sleeping and homelessness programmes, funding and new accommodation initiatives were already underway before Reform UK took control.
- Local Plan: Inherited. The timetable was adopted in 2025 and the council had already committed to progressing it in January 2026.
- £3.1m potholes: The £3.19m was Bradford’s allocation from a wider West Yorkshire highways package originating from Department for Transport funding, not money Reform UK independently “secured”.
- Bradford Business Conference: An announced conference may be a new initiative, but announcing an event “to attract investment” is not the same as actually attracting new investment.
I get the conspiracy theorists peddling their crazy Southport lines. It's their grift. But what's unforgivable is politicians - and even some journalists - who know precisely what restrictions are imposed when major cases are pending suddenly pretend to be ignorant of them.
How on Earth have we put up with this for so long?
We are all being taken for fools we’ve put up with the deceit of spin but we must not accept criminality not this not ever
I wonder whether we'll ever get a better explanation of how Boris Johnson became & remains Prime Minister than the fact that, at the precise moment his position is the most threatened & vulnerable it has ever been & may ever be, #StarmerOut is 'Trending in Politics'.
The *massive* lorry park just off the M20 that was always going to be needed to process 10,000 lorries a day in the event of us leaving the Customs Union has just been confirmed.
I hope Kent County Council call it 'Project Fear Park'.