“Why are you asking to be chairs of overview and scrutiny? Why are you asking to be panel members? Why are you asking to be a cabinet member and lead portfolios? Why are you asking to be leader and deputy leader of the council?”
Read our unfiltered impromptu interview with @tanishabramwell following that "we understand that just because we don't understand it" @KirkleesCouncil meeting.
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We’re just one week away from the local elections 🗳️
Here are some of the candidates hoping to get your vote on Thursday 7 May 2026 in their own words.
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“… I soon discovered that it wasn’t from that glorious heyday of muscular cinema and that built different, at least as I understood it, was in fact a more recent idiom.
"It was from an internet meme, one of those endless, compact, mass-disseminated, mass-reproduced, attention-grabbing, dopamine-tickling video clips that have come to loosely define a more atomised online culture whose chief unifying and underlining characteristic is its addictive, low-value, ultra-processed junk-like quality …”
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Tackling the climate emergency really isn't rocket science, as our guest author explains. We really ought to continue doing more, not less.
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We're turning two in April and we really don't know where the time has gone.
It's been an amazing two years with lots to be proud of but we're still nowhere near where we want to be journalistically or financially.
So we're going to pivot, widen our reach, rebrand.
The mission, however, remains the same: local news done slower and better.
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"I will stand up for local people, protect our countryside and focus on the issues that really matter" – Josie McMaster, @bradfordgreens candidate for the Worth Valley by-election to @bradfordmdc
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"I pledge to you that I will always represent local views and needs with honesty, transparency and integrity" – Sabine Ebert-Forbes, Independent candidate for the Worth Valley by-election to @bradfordmdc
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@ukhomeoffice … audience that are exploited by populists and demagogues. Why do you see the need to debase people claiming asylum, the bulk of whom are here for legitimate reasons? Why the need to demonise, to be incendiary? We need a kinder more nuanced kind of politics. Not this.
"I will stand up against Labour-run Bradford Council and their relentless attacks on our local services" – Paul Golding, @Conservatives candidate for the Worth Valley by-election to @bradfordmdc
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"I believe that representing this community is about one thing: public service, not self-service" – Peter Kates, @KeighleyLabour candidate for the Worth Valley by-election to @bradfordmdc
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